{"id":12747,"date":"2015-06-13T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12747"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:04:51","slug":"using-a-raspberry-pi-2-to-make-midi-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12747","title":{"rendered":"Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12749 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?resize=560%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sampler_f\" width=\"560\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?resize=1024%2C698&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sampler_f.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephearnest\" target=\"_blank\">JosephEarnest<\/a> has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and\u00a0some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input\/output device. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josephernest\/SamplerBox\" target=\"_blank\">The software is written in Python and cython and is available here<\/a>. He&#8217;s made the whole thing open source on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplerbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website\u00a0where you can read more<\/a>\u00a0and, perhaps, build it yourself. You can see a video of it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing piano on a SamplerBox (RaspberryPi-powered sampler)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDJ87UMOsE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and\u00a0some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input\/output device. The software is written in Python and cython and is available here. He&#8217;s made&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12747\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,22,31,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-geeky-techiness","category-music","category-programming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12747\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and\u00a0some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input\/output device. 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