Bespoke Launchpad Controller - Notes Generated by Tetris Game

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Hi Everyone,

Not sure who might be interested, but here it is in action.

Another day another game to generate notes! This time it's Tetris. There is a main sequence that is played by the Volca Bass. The game alters the sequence notes based on the position of the Tetris pieces. You can see the altered notes as they flash white on the Launchpad display. The Volca FM plays only the altered notes. Interestingly, it helps the music to be not so good at Tetris.... The Volca Drum plays its own pattern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOzUVI9yETY
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Nice concept! Curious as to how you managed to program the Launchpad to play Tetris. :D
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Thank you. The Launchpad sends and receives MIDI. The Teensy 4.1 microcontroller (In the black box) is in Host mode so it powers and controls the Launchpad. The Launchpad serves as its screen and keyboard. I used the TeensyDuino IDE to program it.
Essentially I translate the messages from the Launchpad ( a one dimensional array of MIDI notes) into an xy grid and vice versa.
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