Working on a PhD in composition, [Stephen Coyle] spends a fair bit of time at his electric keyboard. Setting himself up to work can be a bit of a task, so he felt he could improve the process and make it easy as Pi.
Finding it an odious task indeed to use notation software, connecting his laptop to his keyboard is a must — avoiding a warren of wires in the move is a similar priority. And, what if he could take advantage of the iPad’s unique offerings too? Well, a Raspberry Pi Zero W running Ravelox — an RTP MIDI protocol — makes his music available on his network to record on whichever device he pleases.
He also took the time to upgrade his keyboard’s archaic PSU to a more powerful option, also allowing him to siphon off some juice to the Pi with a voltage regulator — booting it whenever he turns on his keyboard. A channel hidden underneath his keyboard made the perfect cache for the Pi, voltage regulator and cables, with help from a little hot glue. All that’s left now, is to play on!
When [Coyle] isn’t at his keyboard, he’s at his other keyboard making an absolutely essential smart button.
[Thanks for the tip, Dave!]
I am curious what it’s latency is. OK for composition but lag kills live performance.
Hi, creator here. I’ve been very happy, and frankly a little amazed, by how low latency it is. I can’t feel any difference between it now vs when it was plugged in directly.
Hi, raveloxmidi creator here :) Thanks for the shout out. Glad that people are finding a use for this.
Oh hey! Thank you for the awesome software :)
OK, reading the LINKED (original) article it makes more sense. Now I wonder why the article on this website here makes me read the original article to understand what the article here is about. This feels … like a strange way of journalism.
Minor correction: [Ravelox] is the author’s handle, and the software is called raveloxmidi.
/me waves
please, dont translate the tittle into spanish…
Someone doesn’t pay much attention to all the music in TV shows, video games, advertisements, and more. Far from useless, a PhD in composition sets a person up to work in media production like little else does.
Link should be changed to “https://stephencoyle.net/wifi-piano”…