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Distortion Pedal (Symmetric and Assymetric) 6 years 10 months ago #351

Stormmaker OFFLINE New Member Posts: 1 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 2	Hi,everyone! Recently I find a function called constrain() in the Arduino official website. https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Constrain Maybe we could use it like this: in_ADC0 = constrain(in_ADC0, lower_threshold, upper_threshold); The code maybe more concise in this way.
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Distortion Pedal (Symmetric and Assymetric) 4 years 4 months ago #1298

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I am new to Arduino and pedalshield and am trying my best to understand code like this. I copied this into my program and got an error. Can sombody explain to me why this is?

// Code updated by GUMET introducing constant loudness to distortion_asymmetric.ino
// Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
// Based on rcarduino.blogspot.com previous work.
// www.electrosmash.com/pedalshield
 
int in_ADC0, in_ADC1;  //variables for 2 ADCs values (ADC0, ADC1)
int POT0, POT1, POT2, out_DAC0, out_DAC1; //variables for 3 pots (ADC8, ADC9, ADC10)
const int LED = 3;
const int FOOTSWITCH = 7;
const int TOGGLE = 2;
int upper_threshold, lower_threshold;
 
void setup()
{
	//ADC Configuration
	ADC->ADC_MR |= 0x80;   // DAC in free running mode.
	ADC->ADC_CR = 2;         // Starts ADC conversion.
	ADC->ADC_CHER = 0x1CC0;  // Enable ADC channels 0,1,8,9 and 10  
 
							 //DAC Configuration
	analogWrite(DAC0, 0);  // Enables DAC0
	analogWrite(DAC1, 0);  // Enables DAC1
 
	pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
	pinMode(FOOTSWITCH, INPUT_PULLUP);
}
 
void loop()
{
	//Read the ADCs
	while ((ADC->ADC_ISR & 0x1CC0) != 0x1CC0);// wait for ADC 0, 1, 8, 9, 10 conversion complete.
	in_ADC0 = ADC->ADC_CDR[7];               // read data from ADC0
	in_ADC1 = ADC->ADC_CDR[6];               // read data from ADC1  
	POT0 = ADC->ADC_CDR[10];                 // read data from ADC8        
	POT1 = ADC->ADC_CDR[11];                 // read data from ADC9   
	POT2 = ADC->ADC_CDR[12];                 // read data from ADC10     
 
	upper_threshold = map(POT0, 0, 4095, 4095, 2047);
	lower_threshold = map(POT1, 0, 4095, 0000, 2047);
 
	if (in_ADC0 >= upper_threshold) in_ADC0 = upper_threshold;
	else if (in_ADC0<lower_threshold)  in_ADC0 = lower_threshold;
 
	if (in_ADC1 >= upper_threshold) in_ADC1 = upper_threshold;
	else if (in_ADC1<lower_threshold)  in_ADC1 = lower_threshold;
 
	//adjust the volume with POT2 with constant loudness
	out_DAC0 = map(in_ADC0, lower_threshold, upper_threshold, 1, POT2);
	out_DAC1 = map(in_ADC1, lower_threshold, upper_threshold, 1, POT2);
 
	//Write the DACs
	dacc_set_channel_selection(DACC_INTERFACE, 0);       //select DAC channel 0
	dacc_write_conversion_data(DACC_INTERFACE, out_DAC0);//write on DAC
	dacc_set_channel_selection(DACC_INTERFACE, 1);       //select DAC channel 1
	dacc_write_conversion_data(DACC_INTERFACE, out_DAC1);//write on DAC
 
	if (digitalRead(FOOTSWITCH)) digitalWrite(LED, HIGH);
	else  digitalWrite(LED, LOW);
}

These lines:

dacc_set_channel_selection(DACC_INTERFACE, 0);       //select DAC channel 0
dacc_write_conversion_data(DACC_INTERFACE, out_DAC0);//write on DAC

These have red underlines under "dacc_set_channel_selection" and "dacc_write_conversion_data"
I am using visualMicro on Visual Studios

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Distortion Pedal (Symmetric and Assymetric) 4 years 4 months ago #1301

Ray
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These operations are related to generating the output signal, it is usually the last stage in a guitar pedal effect.
So once the input signal has been modified (clipped in this case) it needs to be generated again, so the DACs will produce the new output signal.

2 DACs are used (named DAC0 and DAC1) for this operation (one will be enough, but 2 gives you more resolution). Every time that we want to use the DAC we need to:

Select the DAC (because there is 2 of them, and we need to make sure that we are addressing the right DAC)
Write the desired values on that DAC (the newly generated signal value)

That operations that you highlighted do exactly these 2 things:

dacc_set_channel_selection(DACC_INTERFACE, 0);                  //select DAC channel 0

With that line we select the DAC0 tpo be used

dacc_write_conversion_data(DACC_INTERFACE, out_DAC0);  //write on DAC

With that line we write the value "out_DAC0" into the DAC0

After that, if we want to use the DAC1 we need to repeat the operation but selecting the DAC1 and writing the desired value for DAC1.
In a nutshell, writing into the DACs is not as easy as just giving them a value, we have to select the one we want to use and then write the value.

Last Edit: 4 years 4 months ago by Ray.

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