MIDI-Controllable Synth Built From a Raspberry Pi Pico @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Cornell University hosts a class humbly titled ECE 4760. It’s a class on microcontrollers. As you might imagine, these Cornell students make some pretty cool stuff. Recently, Pelham built a MIDI-controllable synthesizer out of a Raspberry Pi Pico. Here’s more from Hackaday:

[Pelham] coded a library to parse MIDI messages on the Pico, with the microcontroller’s UART charged with receiving the input data. MIDI is basically just serial at a baud rate of 31.25k, with a set message structure, after all. From there, the Pico takes the note data and plays the relevant frequencies by synthesizing square waves using a PWM output. A second PWM channel can also be blended with the first to generate more complex tones.  The synthesizer is designed to be used with a source of MIDI note data such as a keyboard controller; [Pelham] demonstrates the project in use with a Roland JD-XI. It’s a fairly basic synthesizer, but [Pelham] does a good job of explaining all the steps required to get this far. If you’ve never done an audio or MIDI project before, you might find his guide very helpful for the way it steps through the basics.

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• Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/02/midi-controllable-synth-built-from-a-raspberry-pi-pico-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/