TuneCube
Custom MIDI Controller
TuneCube is a fully-customizable MIDI controller that allows the user to express themselves musically through a user-friendly interface. Able to interface with computerized digital audio workstations, TuneCube can control these DAWs to produce creative music.
TuneCube is populated with the logos of the greatest retro game console
companies and painted to resemble a GameCube console.
The icons for the vinyl-cut stickers are all logos from various video game companies.
TuneCube comes coded with four different modes, differentiated with four colors: blue, red, yellow, and green. Each mode has five buttons that can be mapped to custom channels on any DAW.
The dual-layer PCB was designed in EasyEDA and populated with numerous THT components. These include a slide potentiometer, three rotary potentiometers, and eight WS2812D-F5 LEDs. The entire circuit is controlled by an Arduino Pro Micro.
The enclosure for TuneCube was 3D modeled in Fusion 360 and laser-cut out of plywood. It was then assembled and painted using acrylic paints.
Performance
Footage from sound check.
Working together with the browser-based DAW, Audiotool, TuneCube was used to perform an original composition in front of an audience of 50 people.
A sound-reactive program was created using Processing to be displayed during the
live performance. It was shown on Event Horizon, an overhead array of
10,000 NeoPixels created by Zane Cochran.
