dempsey

Hey, so I was thinking about attempting to create a piano that plays itself (to a certain degree) with the help of max MSP.

Does anyone have any idea how I could possibly go about this?

My first thought was to buy an Arduino and potentially some phone motors or something and once i got one of these to vibrate I could attach them to the strings of a piano and then add some arpeggiators and stuff with the "metro" object.

I've been using MaxMSP for a good few months now and just wanted to give myself a goal to work towards with it.

Any help/tips/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Hey, so I was thinking about attempting to create a piano that plays itself (to a certain degree) with the help of max MSP.
Does anyone have any idea how I could possibly go about this?
My first thought was to buy an Arduino and potentially some phone motors or something and once i got one of these to vibrate I could attach them to the strings of a piano and then add some arpeggiators and stuff with the "metro" object.
I've been using MaxMSP for a good few months now and just wanted to give myself a goal to work towards with it.
Does this idea seem possible?
Any help/tips/ideas would be greatly appreciated!


self-playing-piano

Maybe you could get some ideas from Yamaha's Disklavier pianos? They've been at it for quite a few years so you'd think they'd have it down pretty well by now.

And PianoDisc. And QRS. And there are probably a few others.

Of course, this is eminently doable with Max/Arduino; search youtube and Instructables for "arduino, motors, solenoids, piano", as I just did, and you'll find lots of inspiration.

Some of this deals with converting audio into MIDI stuff, but it's worth having a look at this:

http://smcnetwork.org/system/files/smc2011_submission_116.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrMC8vIbn_s

This is pretty heavy stuff in terms of level of detail and control, but quite interesting.

Some of this deals with converting audio into MIDI stuff, but it's worth having a look at this:
http://smcnetwork.org/system/files/smc2011_submission_116.pdf

And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrMC8vIbn_s

This is pretty heavy stuff in terms of level of detail and control, but quite interesting.


Self Playing Piano.