I am building a MIDI Xylophone per the instructables website...I have 12 piezos hooked up to inputs A0 through A11 of an Arduino Mega 2560. The other 4 inputs are hooked up to ground. All piezos are connected similarly with 1 M Ohm resistors to ground.
I am using the Arduino Serial Monitor to test them. I am only getting a response from the first 7 piezos (A0-A6) and nothing from piezos hooked up to A7-A11. I have verified that the piezos are functional through troubleshooting. Is there anything about this code that is not "enabling" A7-A11 inputs?
The base code came from here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Xylophone/?ALLSTEPS
The only edit I made was in this line char pinAssignments[12]. Initially, it was char pinAssignments[6] but that was creating an error even before uploading. Any ideas??? - john
Here is the complete code I am using:
//Xylophone
//Adapted for an ArduinoMega
//from Jenna deBoisblanc and Spiekenzie Labs initial code
//*******************************************************************************************************************
// User settable variables
//*******************************************************************************************************************
int pinRead;
char pinAssignments[12] ={
'A0','A1','A2','A3','A4','A5','A6','A7','A8','A9','A10','A11'};
byte PadNote[16] = {
57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72}; // MIDI notes from 0 to 127 (Mid C = 60)
int PadCutOff[16] =
{
400,400,200,800,400,400,400,400,400,400,400,400,400,400,400,400}; // Minimum Analog value to cause a drum hit
int MaxPlayTime[16] = {
90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90,90}; // Cycles before a 2nd hit is allowed
#define midichannel 1; // MIDI channel from 0 to 15 (+1 in "real world")
boolean VelocityFlag = true; // Velocity ON (true) or OFF (false)
//*******************************************************************************************************************
// Internal Use Variables
//*******************************************************************************************************************
boolean activePad[16] = {
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; // Array of flags of pad currently playing
int PinPlayTime[16] = {
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; // Counter since pad started to play
byte status1;
int pin = 0;
int hitavg = 0;
//*******************************************************************************************************************
// Setup
//*******************************************************************************************************************
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(57600); // connect to the serial port 115200
}
//*******************************************************************************************************************
// Main Program
//*******************************************************************************************************************
void loop()
{
for(int pin=0; pin < 16; pin++) //
{
//int pin = 3;
// for (pinRead=0; pinRead < 16, pin++){
hitavg = analogRead(pinAssignments[pin]);
//Serial.println(hitavg);
// read the input pin
if((hitavg > PadCutOff[pin]))
{
if((activePad[pin] == false))
{
if(VelocityFlag == true)
{
// hitavg = 127 / ((1023 - PadCutOff[pin]) / (hitavg - PadCutOff[pin])); // With full range (Too sensitive ?)
hitavg = (hitavg / 8) -1 ; // Upper range
}
else
{
hitavg = 127;
}
MIDI_TX(144,PadNote[pin],hitavg); //note on
PinPlayTime[pin] = 0;
activePad[pin] = true;
}
else
{
PinPlayTime[pin] = PinPlayTime[pin] + 1;
}
}
else if((activePad[pin] == true))
{
PinPlayTime[pin] = PinPlayTime[pin] + 1;
if(PinPlayTime[pin] > MaxPlayTime[pin])
{
activePad[pin] = false;
MIDI_TX(144,PadNote[pin],0);
}
}
}
}
//*******************************************************************************************************************
// Transmit MIDI Message
//*******************************************************************************************************************
void MIDI_TX(byte MESSAGE, byte PITCH, byte VELOCITY)
{
status1 = MESSAGE + midichannel;
Serial.write(status1);
Serial.write(PITCH);
Serial.write(VELOCITY);
}