{"id":1063,"date":"2014-05-08T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ljudmila.org\/~savskib\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:27:27","slug":"xg-midi-synth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"XG midi synth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DB50XG Yamaha daughter board bought years ago was finally used to make a stand-alone midi synthesizer &#8211; as it was envisioned. Arduino platform had to come my way &#8211; to be able to do all the little programming to be able to set the the instruments manually with rotary encoder. It is now used extensivelly.<\/p>\n<p>The board can play back very high quality samples from the extended midi (XG) set of instrument sounds. While for artistic approach I prefer the co-called &#8220;de-naturized&#8221; sounds, using the &#8220;natural&#8221; sounds in this way is very perverse &#8211; especially with interfaces that do not in any way resemble classical instruments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-P1290713.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1066 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-P1290713-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-P1290713-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-P1290713-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-P1290713-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The electronic schematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>top left is the generator of negative voltage needed by the DB50XG daughter board &#8211; so that we can power it with single supply (9-12 volts)<\/li>\n<li>top right is LCD screen &#8211; connected to micro-controller via i2c bus<\/li>\n<li>bottom middle it the atmega324 microcontroller that holds the program to communicate directly to LCD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1064 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-1024x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DB50XG-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DB50XG Yamaha daughter board bought years ago was finally used to make a stand-alone midi synthesizer &#8211; as it was envisioned. Arduino platform had to come my way &#8211; to be able to do all the little programming to be able to set the the instruments manually with rotary encoder. It is now used extensivelly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1,3],"tags":[16,40,42,38],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devices","category-archive","category-tech","tag-arduino","tag-builds","tag-midi","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turborebop.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}