Piano Software + Hardware

Phry · January 1, 2018

Hello, I have been working on a small project for some weeks and I want to show it to you guys.

What do you think about it? Is it useful? Is anyone interestet in building his own 'Keyboard'?

I'm using two GAL16V8's to send the Button combinations to the Joystick Ports so it's possible to use 24 Buttons instead of 10 (2x Up, Down, Left, Right, Fire).

If anyone is interested I can upload the Schematic and Binarys for the GAL's. Im planning to do a single board pcb as a stand alone version with the Hardware (CPU, PIA, RAM, ROM) built in. So you can build your own Piano/Keyboard with the original 2600 sounds.

Some pics from the first working prototype, screenshots and the binarys are attached.

You can test the Software with an emulator. If you have any suggestions to improve it or you have an idea for some features and effects, please let me know.

Controls

COLOR: BW Instrument <-> Effect

COLOR:
SELECT Sound Channel 1

RESET Sound Channel 2

BW:
SELECT Effect Depth ( 0 - 8 )

RESET Effect Type

With the color switch in COLOR MODE you can change the first channel instrument with SELECT and the second channel instrument with RESET.
With the color switch in BW MODE you can add an effect to the second sound channel with RESET. You can change the depth of the effect with SELECT (0-8 notes up/down)

There is also a text file attached with the notes and button layout.

I'm planning to do more effects and implement the black keys. The black keys do already work in the software but I did not had time to change the prototype.
I hope I can make a demonstration video this week and I also will do a video tutorial for building the hardware.

If there are many people who want to build their own one I can upload schematic, pcb layout, parts list or even offer a kit.

Plase let me know what you guys think about it

2600KEYS_0.1.BIN

Button_Layout.txt

Edited January 1, 2018 by Phry