| Zipdox | Posted: 22 Jun 2020, 12:48 PM |
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Hi, I'm working on a polyphonic MIDI square wave synth with the ATmega328P to use as a tesla coil interrupter. It has to output on a single pin to attach to an optical transmitter. He're a link to my post on another forum: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=998.0 The issue I'm facing right now is that I can't play more than 2 notes simultaneously or it stop processing MIDI interrupts. Any help solving this issue and cleaning my spaghetti could would be appreciated. ------------- |
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| DAVID | Posted: 23 Jun 2020, 05:22 AM |
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The problem with your code it´s that it relies too much on floating point calculations. The atmega328p might be very good in many occasions but when it comes in to those types of calculations it is tremendously slow. I would recommend using integers for that. The second problem I can see is that OCR2A is set to 0 and the TCCR2B register has a prescaler of 1 meaning that the Compare match interrupt 2 is running 16 mhz, so the CPU might not like that. You could try out my code that I made a while ago about an 8 voice polyphonic synth which features 6 waveforms https://github.com/theawsomeavr/Arduino-NES-synth Feel free to modify it to suit your needs. Last edit by DAVID at 23 Jun 2020, 05:23 AM ------------- |
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| DAVID | Posted: 23 Jun 2020, 05:28 AM |
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Also while making midi synths the MIDI library has been (at least for me) quite a resource intensive library and it takes like 2 kb of memory ------------- |
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| Zipdox | Posted: 23 Jun 2020, 10:14 PM |
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I don't know how familiar you are with Tesla coils, but they require a 1 bit interrupt signal (either on or off) to determine when to oscillate. To play music this requires square waves with short duty cycles to not overload the MOSFETs / IGBTs. So to make it polyphonic you essentially just overlap multiple short duty cycle square waves. Do you think you'd be able to help me out with that? I'm quite bad at C. ------------- |
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