Senescence
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Hi Everyone,
I am a musician and i use elecronics on stage and i thought i'd give it a try and make something with teensy to make all my electronic stuff more visual for the audience.
I got a Teensy 3.0 cause i read that it can behave as a midi device which is gonna considerably help me.
But i'm totally new at coding with arduino/teensy so i might need opinions on the feasability of my project and advice about coding.
So what i have :
Teensy 3.0
3x 60 RGB Led Strips WS2811
5V 10A power supply
My goal :
In the computer, on stage, i use a midi bridge from which i address midi signals and channels to the correct devices.
I'd love to be able to use this midi data to trigger the leds ON/OFF and if possible colors.
For example, i control the sound with an infrared sensor that sends midi data according to many X-Y-Z axis ...
So ... my first goal would be to send on a channel a midi CC from values 1-120 (for example) to the 60 leds strip and turn them on two by two ... 2 first leds for CC value 1, 2 other leds for CC value 2 and so on ... So the light would just follow the movement of my hands along the X axis of the controler.
Then maybe use another CC (along the Z axis of the controller) to change the brightness of the LEDS ... so the closer my hands get to the controller, the brighter the light is.
I hope i'm clear in my explanations ...
Hopefully someone here can help me and give my clues about how to get started with this ...
I saw that there are some very convenient MIDI and RGB libraries available on the website but i'm totally new to this so i really need help to start messing around with my projet.
Thanks a lot for any help.
I am a musician and i use elecronics on stage and i thought i'd give it a try and make something with teensy to make all my electronic stuff more visual for the audience.
I got a Teensy 3.0 cause i read that it can behave as a midi device which is gonna considerably help me.
But i'm totally new at coding with arduino/teensy so i might need opinions on the feasability of my project and advice about coding.
So what i have :
Teensy 3.0
3x 60 RGB Led Strips WS2811
5V 10A power supply
My goal :
In the computer, on stage, i use a midi bridge from which i address midi signals and channels to the correct devices.
I'd love to be able to use this midi data to trigger the leds ON/OFF and if possible colors.
For example, i control the sound with an infrared sensor that sends midi data according to many X-Y-Z axis ...
So ... my first goal would be to send on a channel a midi CC from values 1-120 (for example) to the 60 leds strip and turn them on two by two ... 2 first leds for CC value 1, 2 other leds for CC value 2 and so on ... So the light would just follow the movement of my hands along the X axis of the controler.
Then maybe use another CC (along the Z axis of the controller) to change the brightness of the LEDS ... so the closer my hands get to the controller, the brighter the light is.
I hope i'm clear in my explanations ...
Hopefully someone here can help me and give my clues about how to get started with this ...
I saw that there are some very convenient MIDI and RGB libraries available on the website but i'm totally new to this so i really need help to start messing around with my projet.
Thanks a lot for any help.