How To Make A Bluetooth MIDI Controller

I made a Bluetooth MIDI controller out of an Arduino Feather 32u4.

[WorldofClassic]

What a handful of skill-sets you have! Woodworking, electronics, programming, painting, design...Most industries would take a team of professionals to build that instrument. I wonder if you can go into business for yourself, selling custom-made instruments. You got it made!

[fabianlawrence]

This is great encouragement. I have been looking for a way to make a midi foot switch that i cane use to control my zoom multistomp ms-60b and I believe that your idea may be a good start.

[iam-music]

Nice job! Im wanting to make a bluetooth floor board but you have done most of the work for me!! Thanks heaps. Just a note for pc users...you need to have w10 (at least anniversary update) and a midi bridge device (midiberry) like midimttr.

[xavierurrutiaGTR]

Dude, that was insane! What an awesome project!

[jarieskola]

Just what I was looking for! Little tweak to code and Bluetooth midiswitcher-pedal ready for action. Great work!

[ParaBellum]

That's excellent. I came here from your spray painting video, having started off by wondering why there were holes in the guitar.

Would it be possible, though, to mount a smartphone on the guitar (or anywhere close by, for that matter), open the piano app and use the touchscreen to achieve the same effect?

[jimincornwall]

Excellent! I have built a few guitars and have been wondering what to do

[maxwar]

This is fantastic. I’m planning on putting one of these in my acoustic! Thanks for sharing! 🤘🏻

[dexmoe]

This reminds me why I want to be a programmer in the first place, thanks for sharing

[neocollective]

What can I say....you are a genius, buddy :)

[mercuryfaith]

Wow amazing job man! Normally (for drum loop stuff) I put on the guitar a simple micro Illuminated wireless keyboard for PC / Smart TV (or a mini MIDI controller) and I connect the receiver to the PC and I use a virtual MIDI keyboard mode on my DAW (I use Reaper btw) for MIDI stuff. It's simple, cheap but very functional but ....you're the BOSS of the BOSS! (:

[alexkuczynski]

Are you going to do a full guide on this?
i think it would make a pretty good vid!!!! thx

[SteveRayDarrell]

Super super cool. How's the latency?

[kavtech_midi]

that was fantastic..., is there any delay when we push, to the respon?

[johnnydarifi]

So cool! I just want to ask about the charging: is it really safe to charge the battery through the Arduino Vcc pin? I think that's what you're doing, I might be wrong... Micro USB can supply a maximum of 1 amp, I think, not sure if the Arduino traces will enjoy that! Say if the battery voltage was very low then you plug it in... Do you have any sort of current limiter in the charging wiring?

[Juanbest]

Wow that's amazing, I'm building myself a midi controller but I don't sure if a bluetooth midi controller would be a good Idea, how its your experience with the latency, do you believe its possible to have a bluetooth mode and a wire mode in a single Adafruit?, My project its a electronic drum witch will be sync to a mac running Logic pro has DAW, could you give me some advice please

[fiddlekrazy]

JOB!! I love doing this
I am stuck on a project tho! I am wanting to place a 27 note key pad(small 3mm-6mm switches as a po-33) on my baritone ukelele with coinciding jack out to a korg volca fm to use as an accompaniment tool at my fingertips. my plan is to make a small footprint keypad to draw up notes from the TABLED in front of me Volca fm. the Uke will also have a preamped Po-33 by teenage engineering and a series of Thumbpiano tines arranged where I can grab/pluck them whilst still playing Uke. the uke I have already placed a hipshot detuner to be able to drop from D to E on the fly. that part works great after modding tuner(note: dont use nylon strings on that string. use a flat wound string to account for less turns)! most volcas can be controlled by a midi keyboard. I just desperately want to make or even find the SMALLEST FOOTPRINT of a midi key control to control the Volca fm. ANY IDEAS????
THANKS MAN!
SUBBED!

[ChanceRoth]

I know it been a long time, but as I'm looking at your charging circuit, I can't find that particular lipo battery indicator. I like that one because it can be mounted subsurface if needed. Any ideas where you got it. I can't find it anywhere and I looked for a fair bit.

I built a midi controller with another microcontroller, but I think the BlueFruit might be better with the BlueTooth built right in (have an external dongle doing it now), so I'm trying it out.

Thanks!

[FredMF]

I had sort of a similar idea, sadly stopped when i could not figure out how to make arcade buttons pressure sensitive. What would be a great extension is a second bluetooth board to directly connect to some modular synth hardware. And a switch so you can turn your midi board into an preset select board for your ground effects. I planned to bridge all the potentiometers in my effect pedals and connect digital potentiometers to them (i only use 4 effect). So i can have presets controlled by an arduino board and select them with one of the arcade buttons. Choosing the Jaguar body is a great idea, i never would have managed to fit all this inside my telecaster.

Did you find a way to use the boss midi pickup outside the (way to expensive) boss eco system ?

[SoLSaintGermz]

How much did you spend on this build sir? It's truly an awesomely impressive accomplishment.