https://github.com/robcranfill/pialesissr

A way to select different drum sets when using a MIDI drum kit to send notes to an external drum machine.
https://github.com/robcranfill/pialesissr

midi midi-controller raspberry-pi

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A way to select different drum sets when using a MIDI drum kit to send notes to an external drum machine.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/robcranfill/pialesissr
• Owner: RobCranfill
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2021-02-14T03:19:02.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-05T04:57:22.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-15T01:26:01.124Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: midi, midi-controller, raspberry-pi
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 33.2 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# piAlesisSR

A way to select different drum kits ("kit" in the sense of "collections of sounds"), when using a MIDI drum kit ("kit" in the sense of a physical set of surfaces to be beat upon; an Alesis DM6, in my case) to send notes to an external drum machine (an Alesis SR18 for me).

This uses my [PiLCDmenu](https://github.com/RobCranfill/PiLCDmenu) code to present a super-simple GUI to select a drum kit via MIDI.

This is Yet Another Solution to my ongoing quest (see my other projects, such as [MIDIBox](https://github.com/RobCranfill/midiBox), [PowerOff](https://github.com/RobCranfill/poweroff), and [MIDITrans](https://github.com/RobCranfill/miditrans)) to be able to easily and on the fly select "nice" drum kits.

To reiterate the problem statement:

 * The DM6 built-in sounds are a) very limited; b) lame; and c) on my machine, broken.

 * The DM6 uses USB-MIDI, but SR18 has only DIN MIDI connectors.

This led me to the solution of a Raspberry Pi running the ALSA 'aconnect' util, which sends MIDI notes from the DM6 to the SR16/18. Independently, this code sends control codes to select different kits.

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Notes:

 * This requires the 'mido' and 'python-rtmidi' (not 'rtmidi'!) libraries for MIDI access. (`pip3 install mido python-rtmidi`)

 * It also requires some MIDI hardware and any drivers required for that.

 * Don't forget to do something like

  ``export PYTHONPATH=../PiLCDmenu/``.