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Smart Guitar Hero Controller

sky23h

I want to start a project changing my guitar hero controller into a stand alone music device. The goal is to have it play real sounds through a built in speaker or headphone jack, based on inputs from the 5 colored buttons and strum. It will of course have a limited number of sounds, but enough for novelty!

 

What is the best micro-controller for this project? Since I have to ask, I'm obviously not quite at the level of embedding my own yet, so perhaps a dev board with an SD card slot for the sounds? Perhaps something like the Teensy 3.5?

 

Also, is there anyone interested in collaborating in someway?

 

Any general suggestions on the project are welcome! Thanks!

  • Hi Sky,

     

    You need to define your requirements a little more before we can recommend a specific microcontroller.

    How many buttons, what types of inputs, how many sounds stored, format of sounds, what level of power output are you looking for?

     

    Each of these answers will enable us to narrow down what options you have for the build.

     

    DAB

  • Thanks for the feedback. Standard guitar hero controller, so there are 5 main buttons, 2 aux, and 2 for the strumming switch. The guitar would play play a minimum of 13 sounds based on various button combinations (a full chromatic scale).  Preferably, it'd be cool if there were enough resources on a microcontroller if the 2 aux buttons could cycle between sound modes so that the guitar could play an additional 13 sounds for "chords" and maybe another 13 random sounds. I can limit the functionality appropriately for the microcontroller if that's a bit much, I just don't know what's the better direction to head towards.

     

    These would be closed contact DC inputs. I'm open on formats. I want to record real sounds but I want them to be able to ring out as long as you hold the button. Not sure of the best way to do that.  I plan to add an audio amplifier circuit so that I can hook up a small built in speaker and have a headphone jack.

  • You could hook up 2 arduino modues - one could be a MIDI controller that converts your Hero into a MIDI controller and a second one could be a MIDI sound synth.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUmoSTvW14 ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUmoSTvW14

    https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Arduino-sound-synthesizer-with-MIDI/

  • Is this what you are thinking about?

     

    Clem

  • I have an old guitar hero controller and I've had the same idea for quite awhile now. I've never pushed through with it as other projects take more priority.

     

    I've done some planning but nothing concrete. Here's a video might be able to help when it comes to doing MIDI with Arduino.

     

    This video is unavailable.