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Questions tagged [midi]

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard to interface electronic musical instruments and related devices. It includes protocol, physical interface description, and connectors.

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Can Sonic-Pi play a continuous MIDI tone/note?

I've been messing around with Sonic-Pi lately, trying to figure out various things. One thing I'm finding I want to be able to do is play a continuous MIDI tone/note. However, the closest thing I can figure out how to do is play the note repeating…
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MIDI keyboard latency with fluidsynth

I set up my MIDI keyboard with fluidsynth on raspbian, mostly according to this how to. It all works fine, but I've got a ~1 second latency. Does anybody know how to fix this issue? RPi model: B Raspbian image: 2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian MIDI…
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Do I need x11 and desktop environment to have a UI?

I have a headless build; which has no x11 server nor any desktop manager. I would like to run some music applications; so I can use a small touch screen that I recently found; and I was wondering if there is a way to run an application from…
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Off-the-shelf synthetiser solution for MIDI piano

I am thinking about using one of my Raspberry PIs to turn USB midi keyboard into a standalone piano. Is there a piece of software I can use? Ideally a single-purpose image akin to the RaspBMC etc. Ideally, it would also allow selection of…
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raspi MIDI in audio out

I have a MIDI controller keyboard, that I want to take with me to a vacation. For some reason I cannot bring a tablet/laptop with me. I still have a Raspberry Pi 2B lying around so I thought it might be possible to use the USB MIDI controller as…
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Raspberry Pi MIDI Looper

I would like to write a script that allows MIDI data to be recorded, then sent back out in a loop similar to how a drum machine works. Think drum machine without the audio data. Only MIDI data. I'm not a programmer, I'm a musician, so any help…
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Is it possible to virtually trigger a GPIO Input pin when nothing is actually connected to it?

I am trying to use incoming MIDI data on my Raspberry Pi 3's USB port to virtually trigger an input GPIO pin. The reason for this is as follows: I'm using the MIDI out port on a Behringer X-32 audio mixer to send midi data to the Pi running Windows…
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Which hardware to connect a MIDI keyboard to the RPi?

As I can see from questions like MIDI keyboard latency with fluidsynth Play MIDI from Raspi using external controller and external blog posts like Jacques Pi Synthesizer I see that it is possible to play MIDI. Unfortunately, none of the question…
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Receiving and sending DMX signals

I've got a Showtec Showmaster 24 in school. Because this device is limited to control only 12 channels over DMX (without using scenes 24), I want to expand this limit with a Raspberry Pi. I found this device:…
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Use a USB MIDI controller as an input

I want to build a kind of a synthesizer, with a set of potentiometers connected to Pi via ADC, a set of momentary buttons that would toggle the modes and so on. I could create a row of buttons as keyboard keys, but seems like it can be a better…
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Using the PI to make a standalone synth with a midi keyboard

I have an unused midi keyboard collecting dust in my closed, and was thinking to connect on it a RPI 3B with a small LCD screen, to use it as standalone synth. Currently I am running a 2 GB setup, which is headless, because I don't really do…
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OSError: libportmidi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i'm a newbie with Raspberry PI (my model is B+). I'm tryng to write a script in python that read a midi file and switch on/off leds... My code for reading midi file is this one: import mido output = mido.open_output() from mido import MidiFile mid…
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Raspberry Pi Pico -- Read USB Midi Input

I'm new to programming with Raspberry Pi's. I have a Yamaha p45 electric keyboard that outputs MIDI over a USB cable (not the 5-pin midi cable) and I need to read the midi input into my Raspberry Pi Pico. I've been doing research for weeks but it…
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Raspberry Pi as a MIDI device

Is it possible to configure RPi as a MIDI device? I'd like it to show up as a MIDI device on my computer when connected via USB OTG to my computer.
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Python RTMidi misses Start MIDI message

New issue on my Rpi 3b+ :( I'm using the RTMidi Python lib to monitor incoming midi messages from a midi keyboard, plugged using USB. I can see all incoming messages (notes, stop, continue..). But not the "Start" ones. This is really strange because…
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