[sdiy] Adding MIDI to cheap non-MIDI keyboard?

[Oren Leavitt]

Probably easiest to interface that to the scanner of a cheap MIDI 
keyboard controller (M-Audio, Arturia, et al). Just route the switches 
of that floor pad parallel to those of the controller's keyboard.

On 5/21/26 7:49 PM, Didier Leplae via Synth-diy wrote:
> Does anyone have ideas about adding MIDI capability to a cheap keyboard 
> that doesn’t have midi out?
> 
> A friend of mine is interested in using a piano mat, made for kids, in 
> performances, but these kinds of keyboards are very limited in their 
> sounds. So, I wondered how feasible it would be to add a midi out.
> 
> 204980-z1.jpg
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