Ive been thinking about creating a cheap and ultra simple controller that puts midi input and output at the end of a network cable from a host pc ,
forget the usual USB midi adapter which requires drivers and has a limitation of 5m plus the distance you run the midi cables ,
Instead a network to serial module to handle the long wire transmission element over any existing cat 5 network cable , then a serial to midi adapter , then a couple of small bits of software on the pc to provide a virtual midi device over Com port which the DAW readily interfaces with ,
Its beautifully simple , any extra remote relay switching requirements can easily be handled by serial command ,
ethernet Com port
Serial to midi , with opto isolator
The software to make it work,
https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
The Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge
and the article here
https://www.partsnotincluded.com/how-to-send-receive-midi-messages-over-serial/
forget the usual USB midi adapter which requires drivers and has a limitation of 5m plus the distance you run the midi cables ,
Instead a network to serial module to handle the long wire transmission element over any existing cat 5 network cable , then a serial to midi adapter , then a couple of small bits of software on the pc to provide a virtual midi device over Com port which the DAW readily interfaces with ,
Its beautifully simple , any extra remote relay switching requirements can easily be handled by serial command ,
ethernet Com port
Serial to midi , with opto isolator
The software to make it work,
https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
The Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge
and the article here
https://www.partsnotincluded.com/how-to-send-receive-midi-messages-over-serial/
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