midi-lights vs colorchord

midi-lights

Code for my LED strip attached to a MIDI keyboard (by ohnoitsalobo)

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Chromatic Sound to Light Conversion System (by cnlohr)

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midi-lights		colorchord
	Project
2	Mentions	7
3	Stars	656
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
C++	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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midi-lights

Posts with mentions or reviews of midi-lights. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-17.

Code for my MIDI keyboard LED strip
2 projects | /r/FastLED | 17 Nov 2021

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My second MIDI keyboard LED installation
2 projects | /r/FastLED | 14 Nov 2021

colorchord

Posts with mentions or reviews of colorchord. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

Show HN: Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022
Spectrum analyser
1 project | /r/esp8266 | 19 Nov 2021
My second MIDI keyboard LED installation
2 projects | /r/FastLED | 14 Nov 2021
audio scope for diy synth with esp8266 and an oled screen - builtin ADC is better than expected
1 project | /r/esp8266 | 31 Oct 2021

If Colorchord is any indication, it's probably possible. I haven't been able to get it to work, but I'm not particularly smart when it comes to programming. See what you can do with it!
Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum – visualizer for YouTube with musical notes
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2021

cnlohr's colorchord does something similar to what you mentioned.
https://github.com/cnlohr/colorchord
Is there any DSP/Signal graph based control software for RGB lighting?
1 project | /r/rgbmasterrace | 18 Jan 2021
ESP8266 Websockets
1 project | /r/esp8266 | 11 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing midi-lights and colorchord you can also consider the following projects:

Arduino-USBMIDI - Allows a microcontroller, with native USB capabilities, to appear as a MIDI device over USB to a connected computer

showcqt-js - ShowCQT (Constant Q Transform) audio visualization

youtube-musical-spectrum - Audio visualizer for YouTube with musical notes.

codemirror-lang-janet - Janet support for CodeMirror 6

libfive - Infrastructure for solid modeling

retrace.gl - Create, ray trace & export programatically defined Signed Distance Function CSG geometries with an API suited for generative art - in your browser! 🎉

commands - Collection of editing commands for the CodeMirror code editor

audiolink - Audio reactive prefabs for VRChat

implicit - A math-inspired CAD program in haskell. CSG, bevels, and shells; 2D & 3D geometry; 2D gcode generation...

glicol - Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust