I’m required to put together an interactive sound art installation for the course I’m on just now and after a bit of research I decided using an Arduino would be the best way to do what I had in mind.
I have an Arduino Uno and an AdaFruit Wave Shield at my disposal. Basically I need five sounds to be playing simultaneously on a continuous loop and for the volume of these to each be controlled by a membrane potentiometer. Additionally, I’d like the membrane potentiometers to each control the brightness of an LED as a visual volume indicator.
Apologies, I know this is some really basic stuff. I have next to no experience in coding or circuits so any informative links or explanations anyone can give me, even if it’s just a starting place for me to work from, would be massively appreciated!
You need all 5 to play at the same time, "playing simultaneously"? Or just one after the other?
5 at once will need 5 cards, and an audio mixer before going your amplifier, which can be as simple as 5 resistorsl, see the schematic in Reply #4 here http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=179761.0
Got a link to the potentiometer? Reading an analog level from a pot and writing that out as PWM level to the LEDs is usually pretty easy.