As it turns out the initial release of MidiSerial had some problems sending messages to the Arduino. It seems the FTDI virtual comm port drivers are a bit particular about the termios settings they expect – at least my simplistic approach to configuring a raw serial connection was not good enough.
Having come across this excellent article on todbot I have now managed to sort the problems out.
Up-to-date source code is available on our git server and github.
You can also download a Mac OS X Universal binary from here: MidiSerial.
Hi, I just want to download the MidiSerial but the link is broken. Is it available ?
Thanks !
Diego.
Sorry, that link is dead – please use:
http://download.pingdynasty.com/MidiSerial/
Hi Mars, thanks ! I’ve downloaded the file but I can’t get it to work, it opens a terminal window, how do I set the baud rate and the serial port I’m using ?
Thanks a lot !
Diego.
ah well it’s a command line application:
Open a terminal window, ‘cd’ to the directory that the executable is in, and run it with
./MidiSerial -h
that will show you the available command line options.