Arduino for Musicians: A Complete Guide to Arduino and Teensy Microcontrollers

This book has a pretty good overview for programming Arduino code for some music applications. However, I had hoped for a more in depth analysis of MIDI, MIDI CC, Quantizing, and implementations of arduino for synthesis applications. This is more about making instruments.I'm also happy to learn about the concepts presented in this book, but the approach was a bit snoozy, and none of it was inspiring. I hope other people get more out of it than I did.

This book is okay. There are some good ideas and projects. However 50 percent is teaching you to program arduino. I am proficientIn C/C++. I felt letdown.

Some chapters were well-written (especially the first few) with great explanations and examples, but other chapters were borderline awful -- especially when the author tried to explain anything mathematical. The chapter on audio output and sound synthesis, in particular, was filled with errors and poor explanations that had me scratching my head.

Very good intro to Arduino for those who know a bit about music theory. Also a good intro to taking your Arduino projects a bit further by soldering and putting everything into boxes.

On both the macro and micro level, this book shows what’s possible and how to make music on an arduino. One more word required for a review? That’s a dumb rule. I’ve said plenty.

Very clearly written with great examples.

Great book! Provides good info on Arduino hardware and great coding examples!

Bought this asite a gift for my boyfriend, he LOVE this book. He's a music producer and also an electrician, so it goes without saying, this was an excellent fit. This book has soooooooo much information and such a wide range of projects and tutorials to put together just about any equipment you'd need to run a studio.

I’ve a fair amount of experience using Arduinos and other microcontrollers, I’ve been programming for many years professionally and made a lot of electronic projects. I’m an amateur musician and was keen to start using microcontrollers to generate electronic music. So I read the reviews and bought the book, then wondered if any of the reviewers has actually read it.The good points are that it’s a nicely produced book, well laid out and unusually for an Arduino book has an index and a chapter by chapter list of references. Some of the pictures lack contrast though.However the problems I have with the content boil down to three things, firstly it’s trying to be all things to all readers and failing, secondly the writer gets lost in the detail and looses the reader. Thirdly I had expected a lot more, simple, Arduino and Teensy projects, in the Arduino tinkering/hacking ethos rather than the few complicated ones presented. The book is more of a first year undergraduate text than something the average schoolchild or “three chord trick” guitarist might understand, And, from a professional point of view, the author’s views on the superiority of C++ are not shared by a lot of programmers who see C++ as a curse.If you must buy this book,( it’s pretty good on Midi and the projects look interesting) and you don’t know much about Arduino I would suggest you get a copy of Jeremy Blum’s excellent “Exploring Arduino” book for the electronics and Arduino hardware aspects, the Make “Getting Started with Arduino” by Banzi and Shilo for the hacking ethos side of things.

I like this book, but when it comes to programming, it has all the basics other arduino programming tutorials have, but don't break it down to be helpful for non-programmers. If you're into that, then great. Otherwise you're stuck with the same brick wall that makes working with arduinos difficult. No better or worse, but more of the same, though this time in the context of music.

molti temi sono già' trattati in altri libri, non approfondisce, secondo me, gli utilizzi specifici nella musica come mi sarei aspettato, si deve ricorrere alla documentazione delle librerie on-line e dato le dimensioni importanti del libro avrei preferito avere qualche info in più', sebbene destinata all'obsolescenza, che non dover continuamente passare dalla carta allo schermo. interessante comunque

Hallo Alle,das Buch hat die wichtigen Dinge, die ein Musiker benötigt. Habe es einige Jahre und immer wieder schlage ich nach, wenn es ein Problem gibt. Und: wer programmiert weiß, wieviele Bugs es aufzufinden gilt, wenn die Programmierung komplexer wird.Meine volle Punktzahl.Gruß an AllePIT

Se pensi di poter costruire qualcosa con questo manuale ti sbagli in quanto manca tutto. E' davvero poco utile ai musicians, mancano addirittura i principi di funzionamento.