Footswiches using Arduino
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:46 am
I made a footswitch board because I couldn't see myself using SooperLooper while peering at the laptop and fiddling with the trackpad .It uses an Arduino Due board to send keystroke and mouse signals to the GUI and light up leds on the board so you know what's on and what's off.
There are four tracks , each has an arming button (Green) and seven leds. Top four are Mute Overdub Multiply and Solo , then below the button theres Record and Play , and below them in the middle an led to show the track is armed.
The other buttons from top left are Redo , Undo , Mute , Overdub, Record/Play, Multiply , Solo , Volume Down , Volume Up. These take effect on whichever track is armed.
Just finished it and I think all the code for the Arduino works as it should , Solo switches on Mute led on other tracks etc etc..
The leds are different colours,, in the photo they look alike but it shows yellow solo on plus blue mutes , red record and track orange. The yellow, red and orange look the same in the picture but that's just my camera.
There are about 16 spare pins on the arduino , so I could have made it 6 track but 4 seems plenty. I could also have used some of the other keystroke commands and put more switches to trigger them , once I'd got the code sorted it's quite simple.
I'll put the code and build up at Instructables and/or the Arduino projects pages someday soon.
Not sure if these images work. This does..
https://ibb.co/5sNwD8z
There are four tracks , each has an arming button (Green) and seven leds. Top four are Mute Overdub Multiply and Solo , then below the button theres Record and Play , and below them in the middle an led to show the track is armed.
The other buttons from top left are Redo , Undo , Mute , Overdub, Record/Play, Multiply , Solo , Volume Down , Volume Up. These take effect on whichever track is armed.
Just finished it and I think all the code for the Arduino works as it should , Solo switches on Mute led on other tracks etc etc..
The leds are different colours,, in the photo they look alike but it shows yellow solo on plus blue mutes , red record and track orange. The yellow, red and orange look the same in the picture but that's just my camera.
There are about 16 spare pins on the arduino , so I could have made it 6 track but 4 seems plenty. I could also have used some of the other keystroke commands and put more switches to trigger them , once I'd got the code sorted it's quite simple.
I'll put the code and build up at Instructables and/or the Arduino projects pages someday soon.
Not sure if these images work. This does..
https://ibb.co/5sNwD8z