It’s been quite a while since I posted. I haven’t stopped, I have a new addition to the family and he’s doing great. Since I last updated I finished the software side of the sequencer I had been working on.
It’s really fun to play with and you can start to see how it is going to work from the hardware perspective. I’ve even added midi control of all the sliders and hooked it up to this monster MIDI controller. It starts to feel a bit like a finished instrument at this point. The next step is definitely the hardware. I’ve done a fair bit of planning for this already and have a design in my head. There are going to be a lot of potentiometers – too many for a product, so the plan is to make a prototype with all the controls included then after performing with it a few times i’ll hopefully have a good idea of which controls are the most useful then slim the whole thing down to just those controls before designing a version for production.
The other challenge will be taking my embedded programming skills to the next level because this is going to need to be ported from my laptop to an STM chip. The code will need to be adapted a bit but it should be doable.
I’ve started a YouTube channel to demo my projects on and you can see the sequencer here. I mostly started the channel to demo my projects to potential clients/employers. Apparently I sound a bit stiff and need to loosen up a bit. It’s still been fun making the videos. I’m not much of a showman but I’ll probably get the hang of it. It’s great having a way to demo things. I’d never seen myself as a Youtuber but now i tried it, I realise I should have done it ages ago.