To probably no one's surprise, I haven't been practicing the piano. So I decided to start building an electronic wind instrument instead. This video documents my first stage, getting an Arduino to send MIDI data to a synthesizer, and adding a single button.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro Bit
01:09 Actual Intro
01:41 Software Needed
03:22 How This Works
03:52 Set Up a Virtual Instrument
05:14 A Bit About MIDI
05:50 The First Sketch
07:32 The Second Sketch Adds a Button
09:57 The Third Sketch Is Cleanup
12:52 A Bit About Debouncing
14:06 The Fourth Sketch Adds Debounce
16:24 The Fifth Sketch Adds Musicality
19:39 Outro
19:58 Kitty Loves the Flute

Arduino Software: https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
Hairless MIDI (64-bit): https://github.com/tyan0/hairless-mid...
loopMIDI: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/softwa...
Dexed: https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/

The Arduino Debounce Tutorial: https://docs.arduino.cc/built-in-exam...
The Bitshift Debounce on Jack Ganssle's Page: http://www.ganssle.com/debouncing-pt2...