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How to Build a MIDI Harmonizer
How to Build a MIDI Harmonizer
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A complete, step-by-step guide to building your own MIDI Harmonizer from scratch using an Adafruit MacroPad RP2040. Written by Ed Hogben.
This guide covers everything: the hardware you need, how to load CircuitPython, how to code the device yourself (even if you have never coded before), how to connect it to a DAW or HX Stomp, and the music theory behind designing colourful voicings.
What you get:
- 19-page illustrated PDF ebook
- Full hardware and firmware setup walkthrough
- DAW setup guides for Ableton Live and Logic Pro X (more coming soon)
- HX Stomp integration guide
- Music theory section with interval reference table and voicing examples
Delivered as a digital download.
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The Harmonizer sends the chords, the plugin sings them. Press Hear it and watch the four voices follow a real trumpet.
Your chords, under your fingers.
The Harmonizer is a small 12-key controller that sits on your trumpet. Each key holds a chord. Press one, and the plugin re-tunes its four voices to follow whatever you play.
- 1Plug the Harmonizer into your computer over USB.
- 2Press a key. It sends the chord to the plugin in your DAW.
- 3Play. Four voices harmonise with you in real time.
- 4Change what each key plays in MTG Manager.

Real trumpet, recorded through the MIDI Harmonizer plugin. The window matches plugin 1.3.0.