• Decode a wide variety of audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, MIDI, FLAC, WAV (PCM & ADPCM)• Record audio in both PCM (WAV) & compressed Ogg Vorbis• Do all sorts of stuff with the audio such as adjusting bass, treble, & volume digitally• Comes with a micro SD holder to let you play music straight from an SD card! • Special MIDI mode that you can boot the chip into that will read 'classic' 31250 Kbaud MIDI data on a UART pin & act like a synth/drum machine
- there are dozens of built-in drum & sample effects!•3.3v & 1.8v regulators onboard with ferrite beads & analogue filtering for quality analog output• Microphone input port that you can wire up a line-in or mic to & record compressed audio•8 GPIO pins broken out & they all have built in 100K pulldowns, simply connect your button from the GPIO pin to 3.3V for an active-high connection• Interface pins all 5V compliant with level shifters so you can use the chip at 3V or 5V power/logic!• Comes with 220u F stereo blocking capacitors on the output. This means you can plug the output into headphones or a stereo without risk of damage• Click here for the Adafruit tutorial This breakout board is the ultimate companion for the VLSI VS1053B DSP codec chip. The VS1053 can decode a wide variety of audio formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, MIDI, FLAC, WAV (PCM & ADPCM). It can also be used to record audio in both PCM (WAV) & compressed Ogg Vorbis. You can do all sorts of stuff with the audio as well such as adjusting bass, treble, & volume digitally. There is also 8 GPIO pins that can be used for stuff like lighting up small LEDs or reading buttons. All this functionality is implemented in a light-weight SPI interface so nearly any microcontroller can play audio from an SD card. There's also a special MIDI mode that you can boot the chip into that will read 'classic' 31250 Kbaud MIDI data on a UART pin & act like a synth/drum machine
- there are dozens of built-in drum & sample effects! But the chip is a pain to solder, & needs a lot of extras. That's why we spun up the best breakout, perfect for use with an Arduino but also good for other microcontrollers that just don't have the computational power to decode MP3s. The breakout is slim enough to fit on a breadboard with 1 row of holes left over for wiring. There's 3.3v & 1.8v regulators onboard with ferrite beads & analogue filtering for quality analogue output. There's a microphone input port that you can wire up a line-in or mic to & record compressed audio. All 8 GPIO are broken out & they all have built in 100K pulldowns, simply connect your button from the GPIO pin to 3.3V for an active-high connection. You'll likely want to play music from a micro SD card so we added a holder on-board. & since we know so many of our customers use 5V microcontrollers like the Arduino, we made the interface pins all 5V compliant with level shifters so you can use the chip at 3V or 5V power/logic! Each order comes with a fully assembled & tested breakout board, some 0.1" male header you can solder to the breakout so it plugs into a breadboard & a bonus stereo headphone jack that will be handy when you want to plug headphones in!