Category: Blackstomp

I.1 Blackstomp Core (BSCORE) Module’s Physical Design Specification Blackstomp core (BSCORE) module is designed to provide a standardized pinout for the main processing module, so it can be implemented with various type of generic processors which is available on the market. Figure 1 shows the physical design of the module in 2D drawing, and Figure 2 shows it in perspective […]

After finished with the board installation for ESP32, we can proceed to the Blackstomp library installation: Download Blackstomp library from https://github.com/hamuro80/blackstomp , extract the zip file after download. Make sure you can find the library folder “Blackstomp” inside the “arduino-library” folder. On Arduino IDE, go to menu Sketch > Include Library > Add .ZIP Library, and navigate to the extracted library folder “Blackstomp” […]

(Blckstomp library reference: Coming soon..)

Before writing Blackstomp sketch with MIDI support, we have to be aware that Blacktomp library doesn’t provide direct support for MIDI functions. As the consequence, we have to use third party library if we don’t want to write our own MIDI low level functions. Installing MIDI Library Before we can compile the example code “midipedal.ino”, we have to install the […]

Blackstomp core provide a very simple BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) terminal interface for the easiest implementation. All you need to is just enabling the BLE terminal by calling enableBleTerminal() inside Arduino’s setup() and write the BLE terminal handler for the effectModule descendant class. Here is the example sketch code: You can see in the sketch code, the method enableBleTerminal() (at […]

Blackstomp library provide two methods that control the analog path switching inside the audio codec: analogBypass() and analogSoftBypass(). Use analogBypass(true) to bypass the effect processor so the input will be routed to the mixer output. The ADC input will be disconnected from the input and the DAC output will be disconnected from the output mixer. The analog path is this […]

There are two LED indicators in Blackstomp, and we can easily control them through mainLed and auxLed objects. The object has 4 methods for easy and flexible control: turnOn(), turnOff(), blink(), and updateBlink(). Calling turnOn() method will turn the LED continuously-on, regardless the previous state (already turned-on, turned-off, or blinking). Calling turnOff() method will turn the LED continuously-off, regardless the […]

From the previous volume level control example, rather than directly access the control[0].value inside the processing function, we can write a handler that compute an intermediate variable called gain and gainRange. Without these intermediate variables, we have to compute the control[0].value from 0-127 integer values into 0.0-1.0 (floating point) and convert control[1].value to gain range value (floating point) at every […]

To add parameter controls, we can setup one or more of control array element. Each element (control[0], control[1],..,control[5]) has mode which is set to default value CM_DISABLED by the system’s setup. Setup the control name (control[n].name) to a self-descriptive name for the control function, such as “Out Level”, “Gain”, “Distortion Level”, etc. The control mode (control[n].mode) can be set to […]

Button’s event handler should be written if any change of the button’s state/value should trigger some task. For example, if we have to indicate the change by LED indicator or to compute some intermediate parameter value. To write the handler, we have to define the handler function void onButtonChange(int buttonIndex) inside the effectModule descendant class. Here is the example code: […]

Adding Main Foot Switch Button. Main user switch port (H13) is always available for the main button function. From the software point of view, the main button object is always available as button[0], but it need to be set up inside the init() function.button[0].mode is BM_TOGGLE, BM_MOMENTARY, or BM_TAPTEMPO. Without setting it up then its value will stay in its […]

The simplest effect processor is an input-output device without any control. When the device is powered, it would simply work to process the input signal and deliver the processed signal to the output. Here is the steps to write such simple effect processor: Include the library header <blackstomp.h> Define an effect module derived from effectModule class with process() and init() […]