Analog Guitar Effects with Digital Controller
Guitar effects scape divides into 2 big categories: analog and digital. The idea is to create a system which takes the best of both worlds without compromises:
- Use memory with analog effects! Provoke analog sounds with just one push of a button! No more dancing on the floor while playing guitar!
- No digital processing! Just good old analog sound.
- Simple to use. Turn the knobs and push save!
The system will consist of main controller which connects to rebuilt stompboxes (analog effect units). Everybody likes clean, simple things like analog effect units that immediately do something when you turn the knobs. They are easy to use and make pretty good sound. The only problem is that when you are playing guitar on the stage you can’t edit the position of the knobs and you don’t have 7 legs to turn all stompboxes on at once. That’s where the digital processing units come into play with a memory for presets and just one kick (of a button) to provoke the sound that you preprogrammed. But the digital processed sound can be crappy and complex menus are almost impossible to learn. So why not to combine both worlds?
The main controller will be built from Raspberry Pi which communicates over virtual serial to Arduino inside every analog stompbox. Raspberry Pi will be connected to 2 footswitches, 2 knobs, Touchscreen, USB hub. Arduino will be connected to digital potentiometers which will replace the conventional potentiometers inside stompboxes. As simple as that!
ROCK ON DUDES!!!
Knowledge needed in team: C/C++ and Python programmers, electronics engineers, and maybe a mechanics engineer
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