Arduino for Musicians

Alex Grant

This is the repository for documentation and code for the Arduino for Musicians Workshop held at Immersive Light and Art, Adelaide, May-June 2025.

Get the Code

You can download a .zip archive of this repository by clicking on the green "<> Code" button at the top of the GitHub repo page and selecting Download ZIP.

If you have git installed, you probably know what to do...

git clone https://github.com/grantaj/labrats-arduino.git

Materials will be updated each week.

Workshop Plan

Week 1 [Tues, May 13th]:

Introduction to Arduino: Focusing on the Arduino microcontroller, participants will be introduced to basics of electronics for electronic music and sound design.

Week 2 [Tues, May 20th]:

MIDI: An introduction to the MIDI standard for interconnecting music equipment. Participants will learn how MIDI sends messages for notes and control values. We will build a simple system using the Arduino to send MIDI commands to a digital audio workstation.

Week 3 [Tues, May 27th]:

Modular Synthesis: Using VCV Rack participants will explore sound design and music production using modular synthesis.

Week 4 [Tues, June 3rd]:

Homebrew MIDI Controllers: Bringing together the previous three workshops, in this session, participants will build custom MIDI controllers using Arduino and various sensors.