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  Building the ChordCaster Stomp: A Peek Inside My New Harmonizer Pedal Every once in a while, a project grabs you by the collar and refuses to let go. For me, that project has been the ChordCaster Stomp - a compact, musician‑friendly harmonizer pedal built around a Teensy microcontroller, a custom audio front end, and a handful of ideas that have been rattling around in my head for years. I wanted something that didn’t exist yet: a pedal that could grab a single note, understand the musical context, and generate harmony that feels intentional rather than robotic. Something that could switch between diatonic intelligence and unapologetically synthetic fixed‑interval parallel harmony. Something that guitarists, synth players, and experimentalists could all use without needing a theory textbook. So I built it. Here's a very quick & low effort demo of it in action. I plan to put together a full tour at a later date. The Hardware: A Custom Brain in a Custom Box The first prototype...