[sdiy] USB to MIDI example projects?

[Jason Proctor]

and watch out for the fact that the 168 and 328 chips on regular 
Arduinos only have one UART, so you can't use it to talk to USB and 
MIDI at the same time.

you'll need to do some SoftwareSerial type jiggerypokery to talk to 
the MIDI stuff.



>OK, to be more specific, if it needs to be connected to the computer 
>anyways, then it could be an Arduino-to-MIDI bridge rather than 
>actual USB MIDI and perhaps save one a lot of work implementing 
>that. If the OP wants to use that specific protocol then you're 
>right, it's not an appropriate solution. Sorry for any confusion.
>
>D.
>
>Daniel Kruszyna wrote:
>>Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
>>>Something like this is definitely in the examples for the Arduino, 
>>>if you feel like using one of those.... In fact, the USB 
>>>bootloader is pretty much the only thing which makes an Arduino an 
>>>Arduino instead of just an ATMega on a commercial PCB ;-)
>>
>>The arduino uses an rs232 to usb converter chip and doesn't have a usb
>>controller on the micro. It cannot support the USB MIDI Device Class.
>
>
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