Note: Visual Studio 2019 must be installed to build this project.
Download the Repository
- Click the green "Clone or download" button.
- Click "Download ZIP".
- Navigate to the downloaded file (named "MKUltra-master.zip") and extract the archive by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Extract All...".
- Navigate to the "MKUltra" directory. This is the project's root directory.
- Navigate to the build directory "Builds\VisualStudio2019".
- Open the file "MKUltra.sln" in Visual Studio 2019.
- Click on "Local Windows Debugger" or press "F5" to start running and debugging the project.
- Change the project configuration from "Debug" to "Release" in the dropdown menu to the left of "Local Windows Debugger".
- Press "F7" to build the project, or select it from the menu "Build -> Build Solution".
- The executable "MKUltra.exe" is found in the directory
"...\MKUltra\Builds\VisualStudio2019\x64\Release\App".
- This executable can be copied and pasted anywhere, and used from that location, i.e., put on the Desktop and ran from there.
Note: Installing Git on Windows with Git Bash is recommended.
$ cd <some directory>
$ git clone https://github.com/chettrick/MKUltra
- Navigate to the "MKUltra" directory. This is the project's root directory.
- Navigate to the build directory "Builds/VisualStudio2019".
- Open the file "MKUltra.sln" in Visual Studio 2019
- Click on "Local Windows Debugger" or press "F5" to start running and debugging the project.
- The on-screen keyboard can be used to play via a mouse.
- The computer's qwerty keyboard can be used to play. Polyphony works (multiple keys play simultaneously).
- The top row keys are the synthesizer's black keys.
- The middle row keys are the synthesizer's white keys.
- A MIDI card, USB MIDI interface, or a USB MIDI keyboard is needed. For example, something like this.
- The keyboard needs to be plugged in and drivers installed, etc, before starting the synthesizer. The synthesizer does not yet auto-negotiate newly attached hardware.
- Select the desired MIDI keyboard from the dropdown menu on the synthesizer.
- Virtual MIDI devices on Windows need to go through a loopback device, such as loopMIDI.
- A virtual MIDI keyboard, such as Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard, configured to use the loopMIDI interface, is used to send MIDI commands to the synthesizer.
- Notation software, such as MuseScore, can be used to generate MIDI commands to send to the synthesizer, via VMPK and loopMIDI.
- Select the desired MIDI keyboard from the dropdown menu on the synthesizer.