Introduction Our final project is a programmable, self-playing xylophone with random melody generation and a pitch detection based interface. From early mechanical devices to todays musical greeting cards, history has seen numerous examples of automated music machines. This project represents a quick, modern take on that tradition with several additional features. We designed and implemented […]
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<Introduction> In the last few decades technology has constantly pushed music further and further into the digital realm. Digital technology has infiltrated all aspects of music-making, from its creation to its recording, editing and production. We have decided to join this technology movement by fitting it to our taste. Since both of us enjoy playing
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INTRODUCTION “Keyboard mania gives users an opportunity to learn and gain a unique taste of playing an electronic piano without the presence of a music teacher.” Summary of our Project We designed an electronic musical instrument, called keyboard mania, able to play an octave of notes with additional features. Features include a menu for user
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[ INTRODUCTION ] MIDI Drum Controller Our Final Project for ECE476 was to build a MIDI drum machine using the MEGA 32 microcontroller. We wanted to make an actual product that can produce “good-quality” percussion sounds. Our drum machine would be played via a keyboard or any sound card with MIDI support. The user would
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Introduction With the Vocal Trainer, expect to resurrect your singing, and ultimately become a vocal expert! The purpose of this Vocal Trainer, designed by Anderson Lin and Jerry Chiang, is to train people in singing accurate pitches, and ultimately become a vocal expert. Also, the vocal trainer has other features such as tuning, in which
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Our project is a digital voice recorder with distortion abilities that stores multiple tracks onto a DataFlash memory card. We programmed an Atmel Mega32 microcontroller to sample a microphone, and store the samples into an external memory source. We give the user the option of recording multiple tracks, and playing back any track at any
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Introduction We constructed an analog-to-digital guitar that captures an input signal and uses the waveform zero-crossings to determine whether the note is at the correct frequency. The hope was that this frequency tuner could be used in a home setting where each of us can tune our own guitars.� While a great number of students
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Introduction As you can see from the title, our project, in a nutshell, is a Sound Effects Processor (for the lack of a better name), which is capable of taking an audio input, adding effects to it digitally and passing an analog output to an amplifier. Fig 1. Joel(left) and Jeremy(right), the architects of The
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Introduction If you are a music buff, then our sheet music generator will be the answer to your dreams. You plug in the instrument of your choice and as you play the keys our system will create the sheet music that attests to your musical genius. Although there are similar systems on the market. They
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Introduction Using MPEG Layer-3 compression, 40 MByte audio files have been compressed to approximately 3.5 MBytes. With the wide availability of MP3 files via the Internet, portable MP3 players have become increasingly popular. MP3 players are currently available that utilize either Compact Discs, SmartMedia, Compact Flash, or a hard-drive as their storage medium. Our interest
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