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So I started a DIY midi file player project using the price teensy 4.1 last week amd I realized that I was doing something that even though it implements features that are not In the nerdseq realm of functionality, the nerdseq could have been running on the teensy.
Is the nerdseq some kind of Arduino board like the teensy? I don’t know much about electronics so my midi file player over usb is an attempt to learn.
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No it is not Arduino based at all.
It would be possible to make something like this with a teensy, but i doubt it is possible using the arduino libraries since they is much more going on than just playing midi files.
Also memory, performance, I/O possibilities, screen drawing etc should be considered which makes a teensy not the best platform for this.
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Ok cool. I don’t understand what the limitations if the teensy. I see people get input and output from touch screens, doing arbitrary file I/O, making synthesized audio, doing control voltage, midi, etc.
I know that the nerdseq is uber hardware at a level far above DIY, but my little midi file player with 5-pin midi ports and the ability to drag and drop midi files on to the device from the computer is, to me an interesting subset of the functions That a nerdseq Could do.
I think my use case is just one no one else cares about.
I am getting lots and lots of use out of my deadly nerdseq with midi io + Mc-909 combination driving my analog and digital synths. It is really cool, and my question is to learn more about electronics for music, if I can understand how something good and comprehensive like nerdseq was implemented.
