Hi all,
Background
First post to the forum for me. I'm very new to Arduino and electronics, been dabbling with coding for a few years, and mucking around with MIDI since I was a kid. My first project was to time my small Christmas lights set up to music which I got done this week using my Arduino Uno R3 starter kit, Solar LED strings, Hairless MIDI and Ableton Live... Really happy with it. The hardest part was figuring out how to handle the lights with alternating colours (switching between +ve and -ve) but solved that with an H-Bridge motor controller from my starter kit.
Happy to share my project with anyone, I just haven't figured out KiCad enough to draw the circuit properly yet.
The next step for me would be to take it all out to the yard next year and add more lights. For this I'd rather create a unit independent from Ableton and my computer... which brings me to my actual question.
The Actual Question
Is it possible to launch a MIDI clip and mp3 simultaneously using a music shield or some other method from within the Arduino board (i.e. not dependent on an external computer)? Open to all ideas and suggestions.