This is a follow-up to the following posts: Simple MIDI Serial Monitor - which shows how to use SoftwareSerial as a MIDI port to allow monitoring over the default serial port. Simple MIDI Serial Monitor – Part 2 - which shows how to use SoftwareSerial as the monitoring serial port instead. This post takes one of my … Continue reading Simple MIDI Serial Monitor – Part 3
Category: MIDI Monitors
XIAO SAMD21, Arduino and MIDI
I've had a few Seeedstudio XIAO SAMD21 boards (previously known as the Seeeduino XIAO) for a while but haven't really done much with them. I had a brief go with Circuitpython to build a CircuitPython USB to Serial MIDI Router but that is all so far. Having been inspired by a recent post on the … Continue reading XIAO SAMD21, Arduino and MIDI
Simple MIDI Serial Monitor – Part 2
In this second part of my Simple MIDI Serial Monitor I show how to use MIDI callbacks to handle the data and show how an independent serial interface could be used as the diagnostic port, thus allowing the hardware serial port to be used with MIDI. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment … Continue reading Simple MIDI Serial Monitor – Part 2
Simple MIDI Serial Monitor
This blog is full of MIDI projects, but I've just realised that I've never really done a "MIDI Data Dumper" type project, so building on my Simple MIDI Monitor and using the many MIDI transport options from Arduino Multi MIDI Merge, here is a serial MIDI data dumper. In Part 2 I show how to do the … Continue reading Simple MIDI Serial Monitor
Pico Dual-core MIDI Visualisations
I started this project as I had just bought two new toys from The Pi-Hut: Waveshare RGB Full-colour 16x10 LED Matrix Panel Waveshare 4-Digit 8-Segment Display Module My initial thinking was to re-run the Pico Unicorn MIDI Visualiser and the Arduino MIDI 7 Segment Controller with these new devices and a Pico. But whilst playing around, I … Continue reading Pico Dual-core MIDI Visualisations
Pico Unicorn MIDI Visualiser
I've been waiting to use my Pimoroni Unicorn Pack for the Raspberry Pi Pico for some time, so decided to start off with a remake of my TFT MIDI Display - Part 3. https://youtu.be/-Sd64LAgyfw Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive … Continue reading Pico Unicorn MIDI Visualiser
Arduino MIDI Logic Analyser
After having a few issues debugging the MIDI connection for my Multi-Mode MIDI Step Sequencer I started wondering about the possibility of building a simple Arduino-based tool to help debug MIDI serial links. I'm thinking something like a MIDI "logic analyser". This is the result. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment … Continue reading Arduino MIDI Logic Analyser
LOLShield MIDI Lighting Effects
This project goes back to the LOLShield and uses it to trigger some LED animations in response to MIDI events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4hc7NGaGI&feature=youtu.be Warning! I strongly recommend using an old or second hand keyboard for your MIDI experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key Arduino tutorials for the main concepts … Continue reading LOLShield MIDI Lighting Effects
TFT MIDI Display – Part 3
This display is inspired by the sound and light show at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It uses the TFT MIDI Display once again. https://youtu.be/hEpZ7Zy03Vo Warning! I strongly recommend using an old or second hand keyboard for your MIDI experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the … Continue reading TFT MIDI Display – Part 3
OLED MIDI Display – Part 2
As I mentioned in my previous post, it should be possible to connect multiple displays to the same microcontroller. This projects looks into that in a bit more detail. Spoiler - it almost works, but has software limitations! Read on for details. Warning! I strongly recommend using an old or second hand keyboard for your MIDI … Continue reading OLED MIDI Display – Part 2