Heartbeat midi controller

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By Collin Cunningham
Posted 2008/02/22 @ 5:19 am
Category Electronics

Looks like Recotana finished work on the heartbeat controlled MIDI device, very cool! Interesting choice in sound patch for the demo video – emphasizes that man/machine contrast. Now we just need one more clip documenting a heart-pounding treadmill recording session.
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3 Responses to Heartbeat midi controller

george on February 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am said:

That’s cool, but it looks like the program was playing a loop instead of actually triggering in real time off the pulse from the controller.

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D on February 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am said:

The loop looks like the synth sound attributed to the MIDI note the controller was “playing”. MIDI data does not naturally have a ‘sound’ attached to it like an analog audio signal. MIDI data is loosely equivalent to digitized sheet music in a way- the MIDI can be played back with a hardware or software synthesizer to connect audible sounds to the data. The same MIDI data can be played back with different orchestrations- guitars, pianos, voice effects, or discrete sound samples like what’s illustrated above.

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gayle on April 29th, 2013 at 12:26 pm said:

building a heart monitor using android Bluetooth and arduino – phone will not display heart beats – any suggestions

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