Hi all,
I'm a music student with some electronics background and I'm interested in controlling guitar pedals via a computer. Ideally, I'd like to build some class of a midi interface which would allow me to automate the amount of effect I require from each box.
An example of three pedals I'm interested in are as follows -
Eventually I'd like to try a whole range of different pedals as available here -
Control in stomp boxes seems to be achieved exclusively via pots as far as I can see (and switches I guess), therefore I was thinking that a digital POT would allow me to achieve what I'm after. When I was younger I built a circuit that used Microlan ADCs and switches and I've just discovered that they also do 100kOhm Digitals POTS -
Most stompboxes seem to use 100kOhm POTs but if I need more that
100kOhms I could simply cascade a number of them together. If I need less then I simply use less. The Microlan POT is
Anyway, the next step would be to establish how I would go about building a midi interface, suitable for use with MIDI based software, which would drive my 1-wire Lan and which would interface to a PC via usb. But right now I'm interested in knowing if you guys think my approach is a good one and if you have any other ideas or suggestions which might be useful to me.
Thanks for your help,
Barry.