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A modular synth playground for Playdate · By Orllewin

MIDI?

A topic by distropolis created Oct 28, 2023 Views: 518 Replies: 6
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How would MIDI work? Bluetooth? Hardware?? USB???

Developer (1 edit)

I’ve created a midi bus that converts mini values into compiled Lua packets that are sent over the USB Serial interface, it’s all coming soon.

More info here: https://github.com/orllewin/playdate_midi_bus

I've got it working up to the "Check the available midi in devices" step. In my console I have the following options:

Available MIDI Devices:
----------Input----------
[0] "Real Time Sequencer"
[1] "MIDI Port"
[2] "DAW Port"

How do I write the code in line 38 of the sketch to reflect choosing '[1] "MIDI Port"'? It's my Novation Launchkey Mini MK3.

Developer

That depends on your Midi setup on the host computer, try running MidiKeys on the computer first and get it up and running with that: https://flit.github.io/projects/midikeys/ (or similar if you’re not on MacOS).

If still no luck move the conversation to an issue on the repo: https://github.com/orllewin/playdate_midi_bus - it’s a bit out of scope for this forum.

Thanks for the swift reply. Not a problem, I'll move it over there.

That sounds intense. My Playdate should arrive soon! Hope to give this a try. 

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any update here? I bought this because it showed midi support but now it seems I may have expected too much.