simple MIDI keyboard

[Frank Olivieri]

Is anyone else having problems with this link?? Comes up error 404 for me!

Frank

John Speth wrote:

> > > Few weeks back Jeremy Martin asked the list how could he trigger
> > > his FatMan without having a MIDI keyboard. Then I thought, hey it's
> > > a good idea - simple (1 IC) cheap (<$10) easy (1 day) and fun (*#%^!)
> > > for everybody to do.
> > > so here it is: pocket size MIDI keyboard
> > > http://www.multimania.com/romcio/small_midi.html
>
> I'm curious how you got a MIDI signal out of the PIC.  As far as I know, it
> doesn't have a dedicated UART.  Did you do the UART function in firmware
> with the timer?  Lately, I did some calcultions for doing just this.  But I
> concluded that MIDI in UART functionality would be difficult.  I'd love to
> see that firmware!
>
> John Speth
> Object Engineering, Inc
> mailto:johns at oei.com