> From: ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com
> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:18:38 +0200
> Subject: Re: [LAU] [Bulk] Re: Sound Chip as a synthesizer on Linux. Thoughts, ideas?
>
> On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 07:09 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote:
> > I believe MIDIbox/UCapps was the first open source DIY MIDI controller
> > project I knew about personally anyway :)
> >
> > http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html
>
> MIDIbox SID V1
> Created 2002/2003
>



MIDIbox project, not the SID arm of it. June 1998 so I would have been 17.

http://www.ucapps.de/old_midibox_1.html

And note I said first I knew about Personally (with source code for PIC, which is something I had a limited amount of experience in at the time through college.) Nowhere did I say it was the first ever DIY MIDI project!!