daveintertech

I'm running a schoolproject with friends and we want to make a big launchpad with pressure plates where people can stand on and trigger sounds. Also the pad's need to give feedback to the user with LED lights. We need to achieve this with an Arduino Uno. The idea is to use use ableton live to create the sounds, max msp to send the midi signals to ableton and let max receive the sensor input from the arduino. I found different tutorials about how to make a midi controller with Arduino, but still not found the best option for this. Does anybody know some site's, projects and tutorials to have a good start with. Or maybe already achieved this idea?

human-size-launchpad

I made several installations interpretable as a "big launchpad" (for example: 

http://paweljanicki.jp/projects_interactiveplayground_platforma_en.html)

 - simpler than cabling + sensors hidden inside the floor...

I made several installations interpretable as a "big launchpad" (for example: http://paweljanicki.jp/projects_interactiveplayground_platforma_en.html) - simpler than cabling + sensors hidden inside the floor...


You could also skip the midi part between Arduino and Max/MSP. If you connect the arduino with your pc/mac, MAX/MSP can communicate with it directly over the USB serial port (without using to midi). You could use maxuino if that makes it easier.

sensors -> Arduino --(USB)--> max/msp --(Midi)--> Ableton

then depending on what you prefer learning to program you can put more intelligence in the arduino (if you want to get better at programming arduino's), or you can just pass on basic signals from the arduino, keeping that code simple, and put more intelligence in your max/msp code.

You could also skip the midi part between Arduino and Max/MSP. If you connect the arduino with your pc/mac, MAX/MSP can communicate with it directly over the USB serial port (without using to midi). You could use maxuino if that makes it easier. 

So you get:
sensors -> Arduino --(USB)--> max/msp --(Midi)--> Ableton

then depending on what you prefer learning to program you can put more intelligence in the arduino (if you want to get better at programming arduino's), or you can just pass on basic signals from the arduino, keeping that code simple, and put more intelligence in your max/msp code.


Human size launchpad