Rasberry Pi as a Midi Controller
Rasberry Pi as a Midi Controller Posted on: 28.06.2013 by Gisele Engstrand Hey all,I am getting a Raspberry Pi, the 35 dollar computer, and I was wondering if it would be possible to use it as a midi controller. Using the GPIO inputs for buttons and sending midi messages or keystrokes to another computer via Ethernet or over wifi. I would really appreciate your reply. | |
| Gisele Engstrand 29.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by Nicky H
I believe I will try to do this, making modifications to turn it into a midi fighter . I will do a instructable if it turns out successful. |
| Gisele Engstrand 28.06.2013 | Hey all, I am getting a Raspberry Pi, the 35 dollar computer, and I was wondering if it would be possible to use it as a midi controller. Using the GPIO inputs for buttons and sending midi messages or keystrokes to another computer via Ethernet or over wifi. I would really appreciate your reply. |
| Gisele Engstrand 30.06.2013 | I've looked at both actually. I know that using the Raspberry Pi as a midi controller will be overkill, but I can use it as other things as well. @ghztomash did you follow a tutorial that can could help me possibly? If I fail miserably I will buy a teensy and use that. Thanks for the input! |
| Janyce Henningson 30.06.2013 | He wants it to work over wifi or LAN though not USB, which will push the price up using duino. |
| Kyra Ramquist 30.06.2013 | As ghztomash said, Arduino and Teensy are perfect for this purpose. Teensy even has native MIDI and HID over USB, just plug the USB cable into a computer to get power and MIDI or HID. Sure, a Raspberry PI can do it, but it's an entire computer, it's just overkill. |
| Brendan Andrascik 30.06.2013 | actually you could utilize completely its computing power and make a "computer-less" instrument. like have a mini mixing or sample launching app running on there with PureData or Processing. Something like a stand alone Maschine. Running a whole Operating System just to read buttons and send MIDI signals is a little bit over kill, you could easily do the same with a $16 Teensy controller |
| Gisele Engstrand 29.06.2013 | Thanks! I will try to modify this so I can use it as a launchpad or midi fighter type device, if I succeed I will post a tutorial on how to do this. |
| Gisele Engstrand 29.06.2013 |
Originally Posted by Nicky H
I believe I will try to do this, making modifications to turn it into a midi fighter . I will do a instructable if it turns out successful. |
| Janyce Henningson 29.06.2013 | Haven't looked at the specs for the PI but I would say probably - in fact I would say yes it will do what you want. edit : http://www.astlab.de/rpi/rpi.shtml |
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