Synthesia?

[Jourdy288]

Have you guys heard of it? It's a music game.
http://www.synthesiagame.com/faq.aspx#what_is

Do you think we can add some sort of functionality that allows you to plug in a MIDI enabled keyboard?

 

[(naw)mcx]

Have you guys heard of it? It's a music game.
http://www.synthesiagame.com/faq.aspx#what_is

Do you think we can add some sort of functionality that allows you to plug in a MIDI enabled keyboard?

Q: Is the source code available?

A: Synthesia used to be an open source project. The last available open source version was 0.6.1. That version has the complete Win/Mac cross-platform MIDI library in C++ and it is reasonably bug-free.

Kinda.

 

[Jourdy288]

Right, as far as plugging in MIDI goes, I mean into the Pandora.

 

[(naw)mcx]

Whoops, my bad.

Sorry :/

 

[Mqark]

Right, as far as plugging in MIDI goes, I mean into the Pandora.

I use this (I've even registered it!), I use a M-Audio prokeys 88 keyboard which allows me to use MIDI over USB on both my Macbook and my desktop PC.

The real problem I see is that the screen is just too physically small to use this easily. You need a largish desktop resolution and a larger screen to make that high a res comfortable to read.

 

[TheRain]

As far as just the USB-MIDI interface part, i did a quick google search and it looks like there is some open source support for this out there for Linux. If that's the case it should be possible to add to Angstrom.

 

[Jourdy288]

OK, that sounds great!

 

[torpor]

I've done a lot of hacking with MIDI on GP2X and other small and light Linux-using platforms, and there is no question in my mind that we'll be able to add support for MIDI to the Pandora pretty easily .. the class-MIDI drivers for Linux are superb, and as long as we've got a recent'ish kernel, it should just be plug and play. I just bought a USB->MIDI cable, very cheap one with not much but the connectors on each end, and it works seamlessly on all my Linux machines.

I'm primarily interested in the Pandora as a platform for music-software development, so count me in as someone who will be doing a lot of work in this area in the future ..

 

[TheRain]

I've done a lot of hacking with MIDI on GP2X and other small and light Linux-using platforms, and there is no question in my mind that we'll be able to add support for MIDI to the Pandora pretty easily .. the class-MIDI drivers for Linux are superb, and as long as we've got a recent'ish kernel, it should just be plug and play. I just bought a USB->MIDI cable, very cheap one with not much but the connectors on each end, and it works seamlessly on all my Linux machines.

I'm primarily interested in the Pandora as a platform for music-software development, so count me in as someone who will be doing a lot of work in this area in the future ..

Hey Torpor! I'm excited to work on audio software for Pandora as well! I am the developer of the original Nintendo DS cartridge slot to MIDI hardware hack, co-developer of libdsmi (MIDI over Wifi) with 0xtob, and developer of d-Star sequencer for the DS. I'm planning a algorithmic music sequencer for Pandora as well, with focus on making very immediate control of the sequencer through keys, button presses and touch screen.

 

[gruso]

I can't wait to see what you guys get up to. A good MIDI sequencer is pretty much at the top of my want list, outside of gaming.

 

[torpor]

I've got all the cables and most of the framework raring to go .. I just need the Pandora and I'll be off like a rocket. I think the platform is very suitable for music-work, personally ..

 

[Jourdy288]

Great work, keep at it!