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16-Bit 28-Pin Demo Board Midi in Audio Out

This project uses a dsPIC33 microcontroller plugged into a demo board to create a single-voice MIDI synthesizer. The board receives MIDI input and generates an organ-like sound in real-time using two overtones. The code is written entirely in C and uses a timer interrupt service routine to increment waveform angles and output audio via a DAC and optoisolator. Sample code shows the ISR calculating three waveforms, scaling them, and writing to the DAC to produce the audio output.

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16-Bit 28-Pin Demo Board Midi in Audio Out

This project uses a dsPIC33 microcontroller plugged into a demo board to create a single-voice MIDI synthesizer. The board receives MIDI input and generates an organ-like sound in real-time using two overtones. The code is written entirely in C and uses a timer interrupt service routine to increment waveform angles and output audio via a DAC and optoisolator. Sample code shows the ISR calculating three waveforms, scaling them, and writing to the DAC to produce the audio output.

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Registration Number: MT2290

Parts Used: dsPIC33FJ12GP202 and MCP4921

dsPIC_Synth Abstract

This project uses a dsPIC33 plugged into a 28-pin demo board with an MCP4921 12bit SPI DAC and a
6N137 optoisolator to create a single voice MIDI synthesizer. The board plugs directly into the MIDI
out of a keyboard or sequencer and responds to MIDI “note on” and “note off” commands in real-time
with a harpsichord/organ-like sound. To make the sound richer, two overtones are used. The code for
the project is written entirely in C demonstrating the efficiency and performance of the dsPIC33 and
the Microchip C compiler.

16-bit 28-
MIDI pin Audio
In Demo Out
Board
Project Block Diagram
The following was added to the 16-bit 28-pin demo board:

Rx->RP6

RB7->CS! RP10->SCK RP11->SDI


A picture of the completed assembly including the MIDI keyboard and mixer:
A close up of the prototype area of the demo board:
A code sample of the timer ISR

void __attribute__((interrupt)) _T1Interrupt(void)


{
int theWave, theWave1, theWave2, theWave3;

IFS0bits.T1IF = 0; // clear interrupt flag

if (sub_second_counter++ == 32767) // Do this every second


{
sub_second_counter = 0;
seconds_counter++;
}

if (gWave.state)
{
theWave1 = wave_lookup(gWave.angle1);
theWave2 = wave_lookup(gWave.angle2)/2;
theWave3 = wave_lookup(gWave.angle3)/4;

// Scale the wave to [-2047,2047]


theWave = (theWave1 + theWave2 + theWave3)/16;

// Bias to 2048
write_SPI(theWave + 2048);

if (gWave.state == 3) // note transition


{
// Prevent clicking on note-to-note transitions
// by transitioning near zero
if (theWave > -32 && theWave < 32)
{
gWave.state = 1;
gWave.freq1 = gWave.next_freq1;
gWave.angle1 = 0;
gWave.freq2 = gWave.next_freq2;
gWave.angle2 = 0;
gWave.freq3 = gWave.next_freq3;
gWave.angle3 = 0;
}
else
{
gWave.angle1 += gWave.freq1;
gWave.angle2 += gWave.freq2;
gWave.angle3 += gWave.freq3;
}
}
else if (gWave.state == 2) // note off
{
// Prevent clicking on note off
// by waiting until near zero
if (theWave > -32 && theWave < 32)
gWave.state = 0;
else
{
gWave.angle1 += gWave.freq1;
gWave.angle2 += gWave.freq2;
gWave.angle3 += gWave.freq3;
}
}
else // if (gWave.state == 1) // continue playing
{
gWave.angle1 += gWave.freq1;
gWave.angle2 += gWave.freq2;
gWave.angle3 += gWave.freq3;
}
}
else
write_SPI(2048); // Quite to bias to prevent clicking
}

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