Thanks for the follow-up. Yes I can plug the USB cable from the Continuumini into a laptop (MIDI host)… send MIDI data to/ from Continuumini. In other words - the Continuumini shows up as a MIDI device within the VST setup screen.
But the FH2 (MIDI host) doesn’t even see the Continuumini as a USB MIDI device. Os from Expert Sleepers acknowledged this as being the fundamental problem.
However, I have had luck using a Raspberry Pi as a roll your own MIDI host… and then plugged in a USB-to-MIDI DIN adapter.
Was only asking here if anyone knew whether the new Blokas MIDI board could see the Continuumini. It might let me get rid of the separate USB MIDI adapter (I’ve had trouble with these before…in my experience adapters sometimes seem to go to sleep or get dropped if sitting idle too long.
The Blokas board just looked like a cleaner solution for getting to TRS MIDI faster.
It’s enough for Raspberry Pi to recognize the device - if it is recognized, you can use a simple ALSA sequencer connection, courtesy of amidiminder (soon to be named just midiminder), to get it forwarded between the Pimidi’s TRS MIDI and Continuumini.
Thank you! Yes - I suppose that makes sense. Will give it a try (Continuumini + PiMIDI.)
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Looks rad, thank you Blokas + Blokas community!
I’m looking forward to checking this out, and I’m a dev, so I can potentially contribute to pimidipy.
I was on the fence about MH vs. something rPi based [ previous post ]
I was so excited to hear about the Next Cool Thing from Blokas, that I bought the Pimidi right away. Early Bird!!
And then I realized . . . all of my gear (Akai Force, Novation Summit, TR-6S, Reface CS) happily connects via USB MIDI.
So I thiiiink that I maybe purchased prematurely, and that a regular old rPi + pimidipy would do what I need?
Lmk if I’m missing something that Pimidi would bring to the table. Thx!
PS if Pimidi isn’t needed for my setup, I’ll be sure it finds a good home.
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