

Tom Buskey on Modern Software Brings Back The Timex Datalink.Urgon on Who’s Afraid Of Assembly Language?.poiuyt on This Week In Security: Dating App, WooCommerce, And OpenSSH.Posted in Musical Hacks Tagged casio, keyboard, midi, usb midi Post navigation Of course, if you’re more into modular synthesizers, you might want to think about working with CV instead! As it’s a popular standard, it should work with most tablets and smartphones too, if you’re that way inclined. Now, featuring a USB-MIDI interface, it’s easy to use the keyboard to play virtual instruments on any modern PC DAW.

Then, it was simply a case of reprogramming the Arduino Uno’s ATMega 16U2 USB interface chip to act as a USB-MIDI device, and the hack was complete. With the Arduino now capable of detecting keypresses, whipped up some code to turn this into relevant MIDI data.

The keys are read as a simple multiplexed array, and with a little work, had the scheme figured out. The hack involved opening up the instrument and wiring the original keyboard matrix to the digital inputs of an Arduino Uno. Of course, such functionality is but a simple hack away. had just such a keyboard, and wanted to use it with their PC, but the low-end instrumented lacked MIDI. If you wanted an instrument to make noises that sounded approximately nothing like what they were supposed to be, you couldn’t go past a Casio. Not content to rule the world of digital watches, Casio also dominated the home musical keyboard market in decades past.
