Hello! Fairly new to the Arduino community. I have posted about this before, but I was requesting a wireless setup. I am now looking for a wired one because I do not know enough about Arduinos to run a wireless setup quite yet.
I have chinese lanterns I want to rig up with these lights:
RGBW Lights
I am a musician and want to synchronize these lights with music that I will be performing live. It will be midi based programming.
I have a Elegoo Mega 2560 board.
Any suggestions?
It will be midi based programming.
What will?
What is sending the data to the Arduino? What does that data look like?
PaulS:
What will?What is sending the data to the Arduino? What does that data look like?
Using Midi Library via Ableton
I may need a Midi Shield
https://www.amazon.com/LinkSprite-101101022-MIDI-Shield-A-r-d-u-i-n-o/dp/B01826F4PO/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1495021838&sr=1-1&keywords=midi+shield
It's easiest to use DMX dimmers for LED strips and a DMX shield. Then you don't have to build custom circuits. But the DMX shield can't use hardware serial if the MIDI shield is using it. For very short strips, TLC5940 shields might work.