Serial2MIDI

This CLI tool allows you to "convert" your serial device to virtual midi device. It also supports sending midi back to the serial device. You can use this tool with ALSA & Jack. This tool is handy with microcontrollers like arduino uno/mega which don't support USB Midi.

Features

Supports ALSA & Jack as audio backends
You can set name & baud rate
Full duplex, this means you can not only receive midi but also send midi back to the serial device
Auto reconnect, if you disconnect the serial device, the virtual midi device is still there and continues working if you plug the serial device in again

Install

Arch

There is a PKGBUILD in the AUR. Download it and install it like any other PKGBUILD or use an AUR helper like yay.

yay -S serial2midi-git

From git/source

Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/jikstra/serial2midi.git
cd into the folder cd serial2midi
install python dependencies with pip install -r dependencies.txt
run the tool with python main.py
Optionally, copy it to a folder in your path, for example cp main.py /usr/bin/serial2midi

Usage

usage: serial2midi [-h] [--name NAME] [--baud-rate BAUD_RATE] [--sleep-interval SLEEP_INTERVAL] DEVICE

Convert a USB Serial device to a Midi device

positional arguments:
  DEVICE                Path to the serial device

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --name NAME           Name of the virtual midi device (default: Serial2MIDI)
  --baud-rate BAUD_RATE
                        Baud rate of serial device (default: 115200)
  --sleep-interval SLEEP_INTERVAL
                        How many seconds we wait between looking for reconnected device. Float is possible. (default: 0.3)

Hacking

Logging

Currently you can change the log level by manually adjusting the LOG_LEVELS array.

he-leon/serial2midi