Hi Forum,
I’m building my own USB midi device (Arduino Pro Micro) and was thinking of plugging it into the USB port on the BomeBox.
We have a SQ5 mixer, on the same network as the Bomebox (on midi channel 8).
I want to make the device send either a midi Note On signal or a HEX command - but what is the best way and with or without Midi Translator? Is my approach even possible?
I want to send two HEX commands to the mixer at the same time:
‘B7 63 0D B7 62 0D B7 06 00 B7 26 01’ and ‘B7 63 19 B7 62 19 B7 06 00 B7 26 00’.
Hope someone will share their thoughts to me or help me in the right direction.
Thank you in advance.
Your Arduino device will likely be recognized as a serial device. Depending on the chip that it uses, it may or may not work. If it does recognize it as a serial device, you would need to still run a Bome MIDI Translator Pro project on your BomeBox to convert from incoming serial data to outgoing MIDI data to send to your SQ5 network port.
Another alternative is to have a shield on your Arduino that goes to a MIDI DIN port and send it in to your BomeBox that way.
Once the data is presented as MIDI data within BomeBox, then you just route it out to your SQ5 port. You would need to develop and run a sketch on your Arduino to develop the MIDI pin in detections to a valid outgoing stream of characters.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Thank you for your reply. I was hoping it was you who answered.
Meanwhile I did some further research and found out some issues with the Arduino boards. The chip is ATmega32U4 and I’m capable of sending midi notes to my USB and see them listed in Midiview on my Mac.
If I’m not capable at the moment to get a MIDI DIN shield, and the Bomebox is not recognizing my device, is it possible to plug it into my Mac and let the computer send the midi through Bome Network to the mixer?
I don’t have the Bomebox physically for testing so I have to prepare before the next gig so I’m doing all the troubleshooting in advance.
No, the BomeBox has the MIDI to network interface but you could probably use Allen & Heath MIDI Control in MIDI Thru mode for testing. In this mode, you plug into a local MIDI port (exposed by the software), and set the Mixer type and IP address within the tool.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
I just did a bit more research and the Arduino Micro can support native USB MIDI if you us the USBMIDI Library. So it would be just a matter of routing your MIDI commands to your network attached SQ mixer.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
Thank you very much for the clarification Steve! I have used the USBMIDI library and sends standard ‘note on’ messages. I have created a preset for these notes in MIDI Translator Pro to get it rewritten to the A&H midi commands I need.
