MIDI Input Devices

OWL
#1

Hi all,

At the moment the USB MIDI input needs to be connected to a host, i.e. laptop, iOS app, unless using a Kenton MIDI device etc. so would not work directly as a MIDI synth, for example, from a MIDI keyboard’s USB port.

I could buy the extra Kenton hardware (I still use my control freak from 1999 btw!), but has somebody made a suitable MIDI device on an arduino or similar that would be a cheaper way of connecting the pin(s) of a MIDI 5pinDin output from standard MIDI hardware device to the USB input (or expression pedal input) of the owl?

Thanks,

Miles

#2

Have a look at this thread:
https://hoxtonowl.com/forums/topic/using-owl-with-midi-controller/

Is that what you had in mind?

#3

Getting there. It’s a keyboard (note on/off) as well as cc messages that I am wanting to send. Ideally would like to move some of my synthesiser patches to hardware without the need for a laptop.

Any chance of a firmware upgrade coming anytime soon that would allow for direct host free midi-input?

Thanks,

Miles