NoteChordButton.ino

NoteChordButton

This is an example of the NoteChordButton class of the Control_Surface library.

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AVR, AVR USB, Nano Every, Due, Nano 33 IoT, Nano 33 BLE, UNO R4, Pi Pico, Teensy 3.x, ESP32, ESP8266

Connect 7 momentary push buttons between pins 2-8 and ground. These will play chords when pressed.

Connect a rotary encoder to pins 0 & 1. This will transpose the MIDI chords.

Written by Pieter P, 15-04-2019
https://github.com/tttapa/Control-Surface

 
#include <Control_Surface.h> // Include the Control Surface library
 
// Instantiate a MIDI interface to use for the Control Surface.
USBMIDI_Interface midi;
 
constexpr Channel channel = Channel_1; // MIDI channel to send to
 
// Instantiate a transposer that transposes from -12 semitones to +12 semitones.
Transposer<-12, +12> transp;
 
// Instantiate an encoder selector with the encoder wired to pins 0 and 1
// with 4 pulses per step, without wrapping.
EncoderSelector<transp.N> sel = {transp, {0, 1}, 4, Wrap::NoWrap};
 
Bankable::NoteChordButton buttons[] = {
    // Major C chord in 4th octave, button between pin 2 and ground
    {transp, 2, {MIDI_Notes::C[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Major},
    {transp, 3, {MIDI_Notes::D[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Minor},
    {transp, 4, {MIDI_Notes::E[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Minor},
    {transp, 5, {MIDI_Notes::F[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MajorFirstInv},
    {transp, 6, {MIDI_Notes::G[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MajorSecondInv},
    {transp, 7, {MIDI_Notes::A[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MinorSecondInv},
    {transp, 8, {MIDI_Notes::B[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Diminished},
};
 
/*
You can also use the non-bankable version without the transposer.
 
NoteChordButton buttons[] = {
    // Major C chord in 4th octave, button between pin 2 and ground
    {2, {MIDI_Notes::C[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Major},
    {3, {MIDI_Notes::D[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Minor},
    {4, {MIDI_Notes::E[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Minor},
    {5, {MIDI_Notes::F[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MajorFirstInv},
    {6, {MIDI_Notes::G[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MajorSecondInv},
    {7, {MIDI_Notes::A[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::MinorSecondInv},
    {8, {MIDI_Notes::B[4], channel}, Bass::Double + Chords::Diminished},
};
*/
 
/*
 * You can change the chords afterwards using 
 *    buttons[0].setChord(Chords::MajorSeventh);
 * for example.
 */
 
void setup() {
    Control_Surface.begin(); // Initialize Control Surface
}
 
void loop() {
    Control_Surface.loop(); // Update all elements
}