[LAU] Akai APC controllers - Experiences?

Renato rennabh at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 17:34:19 UTC 2011


On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:21:33 +0100
Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > (though you'd need something on the software side to make midi).
> >
> 
> Actually this isn't true, the new "Uno" model of the Arduino (as
> opposed to the ancient "Duomilanova") as it uses an ATmega8U2 USB
> interface chip rather than the FTDI chip the "Duomilanova" uses.
> Basically, you can reprogram the 8U2 to appear as a "standards
> complaint" USB MIDI device, and then it will just pop up in ALSA's
> MIDI tab. Neat eh?

hell yes it's neat, didn't know this :) so no more need of
ttymidi. though I was talking of the joystick rewiring, which AFAIK is
seen as a usb HID and thus needs a handler that "midi converts it".

> Then all that you need to do is write "midi data" (integers) to TX...
> For a "hardware" MIDI port aswell as USB MIDI just solder a 5 pin DIN
> to the project, using the Arduino's TX pin :)
> 
> -Harry



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