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Midi Hero

This was a huge nerdy music project I built.

Nov 2023ArduinoMIDIWired Kimchi
AI 0/10

Soldered and coded by hand

This was a huge nerdy music project I built. I took old guitarhero controllers, opened them, removed the original controller and replace it with an arduino that reads all buttons on the controller. It can then convert the button presses into Midi notes. There are many modes and settings, each button on the neck of the guitar refers to a note. The sets of 5 notes can be modified and stored. The tremolo can be used to send a control midi-message.

We use this in our Wired Kimchi live performances. I connect the guitar to my MicroFreak synthesizer and play guitarsolos.

Check out more information and source code on my github:

// The AI score

Geistreich or Geistlos?

In my novel Der Kurator, art is either geistreich — made with human spirit — or geistlos: generated, spiritless. Where exactly the line is, nobody in the book agrees.

For my own stuff I can answer it, case by case. So every project on this site shows how much of it I credit to AI:

There is no 10/10 on this site so far. A 10 would mean I wasn't involved at all in making it — and that hasn't happened yet. What a 10/10 project could be one day, and whether it would still be mine, is a question I find pretty interesting.

The number is my own judgement. You're welcome to disagree.