[Lab] another hair brained project! clave!

Tue Oct 5 11:46:07 EDT 2010

This could all be done with the arduino and a Microphone :P no need for a PC

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:

>
>
> I am making a piece of art work which will detect music beat and then play
> the clave to the music.
>
> If you are unfamiliar with clave, here is a video to explain it:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWxIqnbxWQ
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> The particular rhythm I want is the reverse (or forward) rumba clave (both
> common in Salsa and rumba music).
>
> I was thinking that processing.org and an arduino could be used to listen
> in on music and determine the tempo by finding equidistant peaks of volume.
> Attempt to group the beats into 8 and determine the strongest of 8. Assign
> it as beat 1. Then strike the Clave on 1, 2.5, 4, 6 and 7. Clave strike
> could be a solenoid, or perhaps a DC motor.
>
> Any comments or ideas of the technology?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Emily Daniels <emily.daniels at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I'm very excited too! Guy I expect to see ALL of your awesome robot
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>> Emily
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>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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>>> Darcy
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