I am trying to build an Arduino based Guitar Pedal with the help of a Microcontroller and some cheap standard modules. So far, I had the data input, the Audio Effects ready and just needed to put everything together. When I tried to demonstrate how to output the sound from an ADS1015 ADC I realized that nothing was actually working: The output to the webserver was not producing any sound and the output via I2S Read more
Introduction In one of my last blogs I made a small test-sketch to print some audio data from an ADS1015 Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) capturing the input from an electric guitar using the Arduino loop(). In real life however, we want to drive the capturing of the samples with a timer. A first naive implementation was awfully failing because the ESP32 does not allow I2C calls in the timer interrupts. The solution is to Read more
Introduction I was playing with the thought of building some Arduino Based Guitar Effects Pedals. With that in mind, I have added some simple sound effects to my Arduino Audio Tools Library and this is fitting quite nicely into the overall design. Overall Design SineWaveGenerator<int16_t> sine; GeneratedSoundStream<int16_t> stream(sine); AudioEffectStream effects(stream); The audio effects are applied to an input stream: Here in order to test the functionality, I just use a SineWaveGenerator provided to a GeneratedSoundStream Read more
A Guitar effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of the instrument in different ways. They come in different types like Overdrive Pedals. Delay Pedals. Reverb Pedals. Multi-fx Pedals. Fuzz Pedals. Preamp Pedals. Looper Pedals. Chorus Pedals and playing around with them in different combinations can be quite addictive. You can find a few Arduino based solutions but they are usually based around some some custom boards. So I was wondering how Read more
In the last Blogs I presented – A File Based Versatile MP3 Player – A Streaming MP3 Player – A Streaming AAC Player with Volume Control All these examples were using my Arduino Audio Tools Library. In this final Blog about this topic, I will demonstrate how easy it is to adapt the Sketch from the first Blog and send the output to a Bluetooth Speaker. Here is the Arduino Sketch which will work with Read more
Lately I noticed that some examples in my Arduino Audio Tools library are not compiling any more. This is not a surprise, since the library is still evolving. So I was looking for a way how to identify the broken examples automatically. Fortunately Arduino provides a Command Line Interface and I just needed to write a simple bash script to compile all relevant examples: #!/bin/bash ## # We compile all examples using arduino-cli in order Read more
In the last Blogs I presented a File Based Versatile MP3 Player and later a A Versatile but Simple Arduino Streaming MP3 Player using my Arduino Audio Tools Library. In this Blog, I will demonstrate how easy it is to convert it into a AAC player. I also show how to control the volume. So far I was usually using an ESP32 to test the sketch. This time I switch to the cheaper ESP8266! The Read more
In the last blogs I presented a Versatile MP3 Player and then a Basic Streaming MP3 Player using my Arduino Audio Tools Library. If you expect a Versatile Streaming MP3 Player, you will not be disappointed. All the functionality related to the AudioPlayer class which was described in the Versatile MP3 Player Blog is still valid. In our sketch, we just need to replace the AudioSourceSdFat with an AudioSourceURL. In order to support navigation we Read more
Yesterday I was finally resolving some stability issues in my URLStream class and I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight that it is pretty simple to build a simple mp3 streaming audio player using the Stream API of my Arduino Audio Tools library. You just need to copy the result from an URLStream to your output stream: The Arduino Sketch In this example Arduino sketch I am streaming BBC World Service to the analog Read more
It is pretty simple to build a simple mp3 audio player using the Stream API of my Arduino Audio Tools library: A SD file is a subclass of an Arduino Stream, so all you need to do is to copy from the file to the desired output stream. when we use the EncodedAudioStream as output, we can support different audio formats we can add a status flag to halt and continue the processing Finally we Read more