[Charles Gershom] has been tinkering around with his keyboard and Arduino in order to build his own version of a MIDI controlled synthesizer. It looks like he’s gutted the enclosure of some ...

There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to change a lighting or ...

Making music can be an expensive hobby, particularly if you don’t set limits on the equipment you’re willing to shell out for. That’s the fate musician Alex Coover, aka Glacial Geyser, came close to ...

This Arduino based MIDI volume pedal is capable of reading the position of an analog pedal, translating the A/D value into the proper numerical range, and sending MIDI signals to a synthesizer. A ...

Engineering student Federico Terzi has created a new input device aptly named the Gesture Keyboard which, as the name suggests, converts gestures into keystrokes thanks to a little Arduino programming ...

Adam Podstawczynski has created an innovative Arduino-powered project that emulates a Commodore 64 keyboard on a modern PC. This project allows keystrokes to be translated into character inputs on a ...

He's transformed an old bike into a rolling synth, smashed up a microwave to make a sparky drum, and more recently turned a games console into a music machine. Now Sam Battle of Look Mum No Computer ...

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MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that ...