MODEP and custom MIDI pedalboard

craighissett · February 16, 2019, 1:18am

Hey buddy!

I’ve started putting together a script based on your great example you provided:

CraigHissett/GuitarPedal/blob/master/PiFootswitch.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# based on script by William Hofferbert
#
# https://github.com/whofferbert/rpi-midi-rotary-encoder
#
# watches raspberry pi GPIO pins and translates that
# behavior into midi data. Midi data is accessible to
# other clients through a virtual midi device that is
# created with amidithru, via os.system

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time, datetime
import mido
import os
import re

# midi device naming and setup
name = "GuitarRotaryEncoder"

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It’s very rough, and needs a lot of tidying up doing to it before trying it out.
At present it will hopefully monitor 5 footswitches, and in the future I will add an encoder in and add your code back in.

I’ve also ordered a few variants of those expander chips you suggested so eventually I’ll be able to add some expression pedal inputs too hopefully!
And finally a nice little i2c screen would be the icing on the cake