There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to cha… ...

The USB host shield and MIDI shield are crucial components that enable the Arduino to communicate with other MIDI devices, such as synthesizers and drum machines.

There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to change a ...

Arduino has been used to control a stepper motor driver a MIDI interface, scanner parts and basic keyboard to great effect, check out the video below to learn more. Watch this video on YouTube.

Prototype Stack The prototype stack is pretty straightforward - an Arduino, a DMX shield, and a MIDI shield, stacked nicely.