This was to make sure I got some sound out first 🔊. So far looking good 🤘. Not sure what to add next but I have buttons, a potentiometer, couple of LDRs, amp module, LEDs, switches and other stuff. This was definitely a fun project idea. ☀️ I’ll take a poll for the next addition let’s make it a community project 🎶🎵

Took my TAB music sharing app out for a test drive last night, hung out at a local Starbucks and had three instruments with me. Brought my Fender electric uke, a 1924 La Pacific banjolele, and a mandolin I was recently gifted. At first, I was simply building collections and set lists for various event types - build a Reggae collection, an Easy Listening set, a Church shows set - to see if it was quickly searchable and accessible. Building the sets, testing the songs (I’ve loaded in about 3,000 chordpro files from the Olga Archives to get started), and having the excuse to jam in public… But while I was sitting there noodling about, a guy came in with a Backpacker guitar. We got talking, he pulled out his tablet and shot the session-share code on my screen, and real-time got the session set that I was trying out. Got all the songs in the set, set his preferred instrument, and opened the song I was playing and got chords custom to his instrument (guitar for him, uke for me). But the song was in A minor, and I really like (and he preferred) D minor. Easily fixed - there’s a transpose option right in the song viewer. And when I transpose on my device, as the session host? Every connected device sees the transposition live.. The chord names change in the song, and the chord diagrams update dynamically. If I add a verse to a song (and only the host can edit/transpose, otherwise it’d be chaos), that change ripples out real-time through the session. Even if we’re offline. There are a few bugs still to work out, but by golly, it’s shaping up nicely!

i wrote this during the Ice Storm of 2021... seemed appropriate ebow, delays, synth pedals, reverbs. getting unexpected sounds out of the acoustic guitar

Hey all - a while back, I wrote about being a music/nerd crossover, about this chord-component and chord-list thing that I'd built in order to wrap a javascript package (`svguitar`) into a useful, easy-to-consume tool that lets me just `<chord-component instrument="Standard Guitar" chord="Dm7"></chord-component>` and it renders out the SVG chord diagram. It's neat, it was fun, I'm working on a series of articles about it from the programming side. But I've been working with that, and with a comprehensive TAB editor/renderer doohickey that I'm calling Gigwidget - it lets me create or edit songs and collections, it lets me fetch TAB sheets (currently scraped from ozbcoz.com as it's one of the more comprehensive TAB collections I know of), it lets me choose the instrument I want to use and it renders those chord charts dynamically. It'll handle transposition seamlessly, and it's pretty much working. It currently is in *very* early development, but it does allow for users to sync their data remotely (via Supabase) and use their account on multiple devices. There are two things I'm working on adding to it: 1) The UI is rough. It works, but I'm seeing it more as an interface like GMail or the like, with a sidebar listing collections, a top panel with a list from the chosen collection, and the main content pane showing the currently-selected song. 2) Session-sharing. I want to be able to have a user create a session (say, at a jam or something), and then get a QR code that others at that jam can scan *and get the full setlist for that jam*. While it appears to be stubbed in currently, the "join the session" bit hasn't yet integrated with the "share the full setlist" bit. If anyone wants to hammer on it, I'm totally down to share it for review and opinions - I just don't want to violate community policy by blindly sharing links.

Since I unable to buy any gear for about another month I decided to create my own instrument 🤘 So I have an arduino board I got free just over a year ago and recently found it while cleaning up the storage unit and I have been working on some code using solar panel and photoresistors and some buttons and potentiometer to make a fully automated groovebox. I’ve got some code for rhythm, some drum machine code, some code for visual effects. Can’t wait to see it completed… I just need to find a few more components from the storage and I’ll be ready to build it.