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josephernest
Is MIDI with GPIO serial still working as of today?
See https://www.samplerbox.org/article/midiinwithrpi point 3.
Needs to be double-checked if it still works nowadays, with new kernels.
There are 3 places to check:
- https://github.com/josephernest/SamplerBox/blob/master/isoimage/root/boot/config.txt
- https://github.com/josephernest/SamplerBox/blob/master/isoimage/root/boot/cmdline.txt
- https://github.com/josephernest/SamplerBox/blob/ea16c5f943fd2faf2d6f43807036a10d8578fa6c/samplerbox.py#L387
Then we have to connect a real hardware synthesizer (e.g. Roland or Yamaha), and see if it still works.
I cannot check whether it works "with any hardware midi device" (I only have an Arduino), but I'm thinking of doing the reverse test first: try to open a serial connection and send some messages from RPi, while measuring the rate with oscilloscope. Once that gets confirmed, test in the other direction.
That second test sounds a bit more tricky to me because the messages might get interpreted correctly even at a slightly wrong baud rate settings.
By reading #24 it looks like one might have to verify this on:
- various Debian versions
- various RPi models (at least zero, 2B, 4)
- maybe both 32-bit and 64-bit(?)
- using both serial and USB connection and I'm not sure if I can cover all combinations of them, but I can try some. I won't have hardware access before the weekend (and no hardware + oscilloscope combination before next week).
When things broke for me, it might be that it was a result of some mixture of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, switching between RPi 2B+ and RPi4, ...
What's the oldest OS that you want to target?
On https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ there is a link to Debian 11 2022-04-04-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.img.xz, but your scripts are currently pointing to Debian 10.
With oscilloscope it might work, and then finally not work on a real Roland, Yamaha synth, etc. So I'll do this test one of these days with real synthesizers, to be sure everything works without the 38400 baud hack :)
Python script MIDI IN via SERIAL PORT is very poor. Running status is not considered, so most keyboards produce stuck notes. The Python script then accepts neither NOTE OFF as a NOTE ON message with Velocity=0 nor NOTE OFF as a 0x8n message
