Modular Gameboy Triple Arduinoboy

Published on Jul 10, 2016

Note there are two videos in this set:
Modular Gameboy triple Arduinoboy
ARDUINOBOY triple gameboy modular synth

Some of you might remember the first iteration of the Triple Gameboy Arduino posted in 2011 here.

Details from the first video above:

"GAMEBOY TRIPLE OSCILLATOR
heres some holy chill music from some LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER DIY synth.
WWW.ZIBRAZIBRAZIBRA.COM

Is something i initally made 3 years ago as a stand alone module to match some other gameboy powered modular machines i built, but it got taken apart i found it in the shed a couple of weeks ago and it was rusted and mouldy, so i took the idea and made it better. this one is midi, in this video it is sequenced by a number of Arduino midi sequencers designed around a modified code of this :- http://brendanclarke.com/…/04/23/arduino-based-midi-sequen…/

Its core is an Arduinoboy designed by Trash80 with some EMS smart cards with his mGB software on them. on top of that it has some oscillators which effect the clock of the gameboys, hence making them tuneable by slowing up and down the gameboys speed, all 3 of them work off each other to make a fatter version of just 1 of them that is all. the processor clock speed is also controllable by CV. the initial sounds by the gameboys are channel 3 which is the WAVE channel, one of the midi sequencers up top out is used to record the cc from control voltage of that knob to the right which controls the wave table.

the pulse channels and the wave channels are panned so they can be kind of seperate so they can go into different reverbs and into the mixer.

its all powered by the midi sequencers which is all clocked by an alesis hr16, i pre played in the apregiator style sound into one of the midi sequencers prior to recording this cus its really hard not to mess up, so just muted and unmuted that. along with a lot of drum patterns which are triggered by various step sequencers and probability triggers.

the front panel is loose because im having problems booting all of the gameboys up at the same time from the front panel, and seinse the back of the gameboys are inside ive kinda gotta pull it out and turn it on and off again if it crashes. but hopefully will be an easy fix.

the keyboard controller is a bit of a mess, the controls on the front panel was a master clock so i didnt have to use the Alesis HR16 but it didnt really work very well so i had to bypass all of that and solder the end of a midi cable straight to the arduino in the controller... work in progress.

its all doused in reverb to sound kinda HOLY.

SO YEAH HOLY GAMEBOY. you can find out more on the older project at :-
ZIBRAZIBRAZIBRA.COM
and the old one i built is here :- [posted here]
filmed and added some closeups after. hence the clock speed being slow in the close ups."

ARDUINOBOY triple gameboy modular synth

GrooveBoy XL running Nanoloop X2

Published on May 21, 2014 LoFiFuture·7 videos

"2 instances of Nanoloop running on two GBA SPs, MIDI synced to an MPC via Arduinoboy. Built in 2 channel mixer, analog synthacon filter clone and a stereo deep blue delay clone. All housed in a custom modified NES shell.

This system also runs LSDJ and Mgb off of the built in flash carts."

Arduinoboy Tweeks

Published on Feb 3, 2013

"Doepfer MAQ16/3 runnings Arduinoboy.And Kenton Control Freak Live tweeking Arduinoboy via MIDI.Have Fun:D"

MR-808 mechanic drum robot live at CYNETART 2012

MR-808 mechanic drum robot live at CYNETART 2012 from Sonic Robots on Vimeo.

Follow-up to MR-808 - mechanic drum robot

"Science Fiction Children & Moritz Simon Geist live at CYNETART Dresden Hellerau 2012

The MR-808 is the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world! The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds by Moritz Simon Geist.
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Read on: http://www.sonicrobots.com/mr808-eng/
Artist Blog, Livedates: http://www.sciencefictionchildren.com
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Instruments used:
MR-808 - mechanic sound robot (all drums, miced)
A mechanic relay controlled via arduino (bass sound)
Gameboy - Arduinoboy hardware (8 bit chiptune sound)
Everything was programmed in Ableton, only equing and compression has been applied.
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Cameras: David Campesino, Konstantin Rinner http://www.hochkultur.com/
Music: Moritz Simon Geist
Production: Art Hustle
Audio:"

MR-808 - mechanic drum robot

MR-808 - mechanic drum robot from Sonic Robots on Vimeo.

"Let's get physical: MR-808 is the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world.
The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds! I (Moritz Simon Geist) have been playing electronic music for several years now, and at some place I was bored of the electronic music production process. With binary logic, everything is possible.
So I decided to go back to the roots of sound generation – the physical sound generation – but combine it with the electronic music structure we like so much.
I liked the idea so much, that I couldn’t stop building my own drum robots, and ended up replacing all the electronic sounds of a whole drum computer, placed in a 3,3 x 1,7m² case. I am very proud to present the “MR-808” – a mechanic replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808!
Read on: http://sonicrobots.com/mr808-eng/
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MR-808 - mechanic sound robot (all drums, miced)
A mechanic relay controlled via arduino (bass sound)
Gameboy - Arduinoboy hardware (8 bit chiptune sound)
Everything was programmed in Ableton, only equing and compression has been applied.
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Filmography: David Campesino
Music: Moritz Simon Geist"

via Boing Boing

Update:


Rise Of The Toys from Science Fiction Children on Vimeo.

"Let's get physical: SCIENCE FICTION CHILDREN perform "Rise Of The Toys"
The Track features the MR-808: the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world! The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 with robots playing the drum sounds.

Read on:
www.sonicrobots.com/mr808-eng/ -- Technique
www.sciencefictionchildren.com -- Band

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Cinematography:
David Campesino
Philipp Baumgarten

Rise Of The Toys
Written by Science Fiction Children

Band:
Art Hustle
Moritz Simon Geist
Dr. Valentine
Katharina Hoffmann

Performed at Sputnik 2.0,
Dresden 2012

Only reverb, equing and compression has been applied to the tracks."

Gameboy DMG-01 with Arduinoboy Midi Interface

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Videos below.

"Included are:

-Gameboy DMG-01 - Has the best sound out of all the gameboy's (you can also use the included midi interface and flash cart with other models as well)

- Custom built arduinoboy midi interface built into DMG-07 four player link adapter (plugs straight into the standard ext. connector on any standard gameboy) - This allows you to plug a midi keyboard or sequencer directly into the gameboy so you can play it like a multi-timbre, multi-channel, multi-voice synth

-64MB GB-USB smart card (preloaded with the MGB software which turns the gameboy into a full midi capable musical synthesizer) - can also be flashed with other homebrew gameboy apps

For more infop about Arduinoboy and MGB see here: http://code.google.com/p/arduinoboy/"



Arduinoboy MIDI to gameboy adapter

YouTube Uploaded by artovermatter1 on Aug 3, 2011

"proof of concept for shawna.
mostly just pressing random stuff..."

Super Mario Bros Game Boy Remix - mGB Test

YouTube Uploaded by thePROTODOME on Feb 29, 2012

"So, just recieved my kickass prebuilt Arduinoboy from the fantastic NeX (http://nex.gg8.se/modblog/tag/arduinoboy/) and it is a [i]DREAM COME TRUE[/i].

Thought you guys might appreciate the little test remix I ran through it."

Full midi gameboy / korg electribe

YouTube Uploaded by Tubofluxar on Jan 10, 2011

"Im testing my new gameboy (modded by Rustynex). the gameboy is running MGB."

GAMEBOY, ARDUINOBOY 3 OSCILLATOR SYNTH

YouTube Uploaded by sammybartl on Jul 8, 2011

"a poject ive been working on.
only just in working stages, not fully working! but nearly hope you see what im getting at with it :)
plan was to make an oscillator part of a modular synth out of gameboys (ie 3 seperately adjustable oscillators). so used arduinoboy software and designed an oscillating part for the synth!

this is it!
hope to build more of the modular synth later on at the back i have made patches for cv to effect pitch and envelope, see what happens!!
also i will show it in greater depth on my blog :----
www.meowmeowmeow.co.uk

hope you enjoy :)"

Arduinoboy in a soap dispenser (gameboy midi interface)

YouTube via RustyNex — May 26, 2010 — "a customer of mine asked for a pre assembled Arduinoboy, which is not uncommon, but they requested that it be something different. so this is an Arduinoboy built into an old soap dispenser, the plunger is the mode switch.

it was very difficult to build, i had to work out how to wire it so that i could still assemble it inside the bottle, it was a bit like fitting a ship in a bottle. the LEDs for example had to be hot glued and then quickly but carefully pushed inside and pressed into place using a wooden stick. also when looking at the bottle straight on there is a green LSDJ sticker which looks like part of the label from the right angle.

it also supports both DMG and smaller gameboys without external power. it also gives all your music the smell of apples."

Sync LSDJ with Shitwave

YouTube via RustyNex. Gameboys on Ebay. via Gameboy Genius
"this is a quick mod i made up, it involves a link cable from the LSDJ gameboy to a 74161 counter and then to a CD4024 counter that converts the master clock signal into a tempo signal, this is then fed through various pots so you can control the gain of the signal, attack, decay and to some extent the duty cycle, that is then fed into a LTC1799 which converts the signal back into a clock signal which is fed straight into the CPU of the shitwave gameboy

shitwave is made by Nitro2k01 and is a shift based drone generator,"

Midi gameboy, with built in Arduinoboy.

"this is my midi enabled gameboy which i built. it uses a very high contrast gameboy pocket screen in it which has been adapted to fit, the screen has also been bi inverted thanks to bibbin and nitro's hex inverter idea. It has a white backlight from Nonfinite, and used to be a clear gameboy with the inside painted white.

i have also removed the text from the front of the gameboy to make it look cleaner and added purple snes buttons to match the purple LEDs in the middle.

the middle has a metal bezel which has a small window inside the gameboy to show a pixel heart made out of 16 UV LEDs.
the pixel heart is divided into 4 and shows the 5 modes of the Arduinoboy, blank for LSDJ master, to all on for midi.

the mode switch is above the headphone socket which has been pro sounded.

the arduino code has been edited from the original code written by Trash80, i changed how the lights light, so that the heart looked right, as well as "pulsing" in time to the music. i also modified pin 11 to work the speaker so that you get some beeps on mode change and start up.

the midi socket is on the side which was a pain in the ass to fit, it involved cutting the mother board of the gameboy.

and lastly the usb port is on the bottom for updating the arduino.

the two gameboy carts are USB carts that i have modified to look awesome, the blue one has LSDJ on it and the white one has MGB."

Arduinoboy mGB

Arduinoboy mGB from trash80 on Vimeo. "Arduino inside a Gameboy DMG for MIDI communication. Shows off example of custom midi -> gameboy cart. More info at: code.google.com/p/arduinoboy The pictures of my DMG arduino are available at: flickr.com/photos/trash80/sets/72157606262638032/"