Quoting Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca:
thewade wrote:
What would be even better would be if someone can point me to a kit
I could build myself that I could hook up to a variable resistor,
like a pan-pot, that could interface with PD in a continuous way
(obviously there would be some sampling rate involved).The attached schematic shows the simplest way I've found to make a MIDI interface. The PIC 16F88 has 7 analog channels (pins RA4-0 and RB7 and 6) that could be interfaced to potentiometers of less than about 10kilohms for 10-bit resolution. If you have access to a PIC programmer I can provide the code in an open-source way.
Martin
Thanks Martin!
With all the work that I imagine goes into designing a custom MIDI
interface I usually just find some cheap MIDI keyboards on ebay and
chop them up, but then again I don't know much about MIDI.
Maybe you can answer a couple of general questions for me?
Is MIDI capable of doing continuous stuff?
What is it's maximum sampling/transmission rate for MIDI?
Thanks for the schematic! I think what intimidated me most is the
interfacing of the software to the hardware: my C/C++ code is a bit
rusty...
That schematic is pretty cool though! So many possabilities!
-wade