It’s a pedalboard, I think. This might be one of those misguided “if I only had this thing” thoughts, but I think the setup for rain – and my instrument generally – would be at home in a pedalboard.
- I can build in (multiple!) power supplies, including batteries for everything
- There should be room for both daisy pedals, which have several footswitches, as well as an expression pedal (and possibly some extra footswitches)
- I think I can also embed the raspberry pi that controls the solenoids and motors directly into it, as well (oh! I just realized if there are at least 4 digital pins available on the daisys, I can just use those for solenoid control, probably…)
- It also should have enough space for four channels of amplification for the resonators, and a small mixer to route everything
- It also can probably fit my NUC, a battery and an audio interface giving me 8 channels in and out of the computer: 4 to the resonators via USB audio, 2 aux (for internal routing to pedals maybe?) via the laptop headphone jack, and 2 going to a pair of bluetooth speakers.
Which I’m hoping means if I can build all that into the pedalboard, I’ll just need a backpack full of resonators, a couple bluetooth speakers and either my trumpet or a guitar…?
My uncle mentioned an interest in wah, so I’d also like to find a nice bandpass with resonance for libpippi… but this whole dream of a battery powered brass & resonator system is slowly coming together. I might be able to finish a prototype this winter for rain.