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effectively for all but the most exotic applications.

Given the speeds of modern microcontrollers,

building MIDI devices is easy, cheap, and

extremely satisfying. A quick perusal of the Tindie

marketplace for MIDI devices underscores the

creative ideas that continue to explode in the

maker community.

Makers can also gain access to the universe

of MIDI control surfaces. Grid controllers, slider

and knob boxes, drum machines, and even wind

controllers that output MIDI can become parts of

projects that may have nothing to do with music.

Capturing and repurposing their messages is a

simple matter of programming. To understand

what this would tak ...