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Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: re: inventing the wheel

Normally for this kind of post, I’d jump straight into the dialog without explanation.  I intend to here as well.  But first, I’d like to stall a bit, filling up space until the preview text runs out.
(the default theme here on noisepages insists on removing whitespace from your preview text.  it doesn’t work out so [...]

  7 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: Changing gears

Hey, everyone.  Work’s been pretty crazy with all the holiday movies to promote, so I’ve had to put a lot of things on hold.
I have, however, bought a laptop.
That doesn’t sound so exciting, but being an electronic musician whose studio isn’t mobile has affected every decision I’ve made, for as long as I can remember.
Case [...]

  8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: Simple MIDI Circuit – Attempt 2

My local electronics store didn’t know what a MIDI port is, but they did have a ton of 5 pin DIN connectors on hand. I’m pretty sure those are the same thing, and at $0.50, there’d be no harm in testing the theory. They had two models, so I bought five of each.
(I [...]

  9 months, 4 weeks ago · View

Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: Something works!

I bought three Boarduino kits alongside those breadboard MIDI adapters.
In contrast to those boards, I found these to be very well documented.  I had, unfortunately, ordered the DC powered version without a DC power supply to go with them, so they sat in a box [...]

  10 months ago · View

Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: Simple MIDI Circuit – Attempt 1

I ordered a bunch of “pluggable breadboard adapters” from curiousinventor.com.  These two, in fact:
* MIDI in
* MIDI out
I’d read through several tutorials regarding MIDI data and the Arduino, but those freely admitted that their circuit designs weren’t compliant with official MIDI specifications.  I don’t know [...]

  10 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Aaron Levitz wrote a new blog post: An auspicious start

So, I broke my headphones a while back.  Yanked the cable from my computer, and the end stayed behind.  This wasn’t deliberate.
I’d scheduled some vacation time to sit down and learn electronics.  Bought an arduino board and a box full of sensors, and I figured replacing the broken jack on those headphones would be a [...]

  11 months ago · View