Makey Makey Ukulele w/ Sonic Pi key presses

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After reading this thread I adapted the code to hooked up my Makey Makey to my old cardboard ukulele and strum some chords.

4 key presses are hooked up to the Ukulele strings via the Makey Makey and then you can change the chord by pressing different keys on the keyboard (which I may make a foot switch board to trigger via the Makey Makey as well)

Here’s the adapted code (prob could be cleaner :man_shrugging:t3: )
Big thanks to @robin.newman . This is a game changer for me!

notes=Hash.new
chords=Hash.new

l=[[:g4,:c4, :e4, :c5],
   [:g4,:d4, :g4, :b4],
   [:a4,:d4, :fs4, :a4],
   [:a4,:c4, :e4, :a4],
   [:a4,:c4, :f4, :a4]
   ]

n=["a", "w", "s", "d", "f"] 
c=["g", "h", "j", "k"]
set :n,n
l.length.times do |i| #loop to create the hash
  notes[n[i].ord]=l[i]
  
end
c.length.times do |i|
  chords[c[i].ord]=i
end

k = 0
k2 = 0
live_loop :getkey do
  use_real_time
  use_synth :pluck
  b= sync "/osc*/key"
  if b[0] == 103 || b[0] == 104 || b[0] == 106 || b[0] == 107
    m = b[0]
    k2 = k
  else
    k=b[0]
  end 
  
  #note to play
  if b[0] == 103 || b[0] == 104 || b[0] == 106 || b[0] == 107
    play notes[k2.to_i][chords[m.to_i]]
  end
  sleep 0.05
end
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