MIDI controlled LED Matrix -TLC5940 - Ableton Live

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Say I have a 5x5 RGB matrix being controlled by TLC5940s... say I want to use Ableton Live to create MIDI clips/tracks that contain your general MIDI data (note on/off events, velocity, various CC controls, etc.)... and finally, say I want to send the data from these clips/tracks to the Arduino that controls the 5x5 RGB matrix and have the matrix light up according to the MIDI data that is read in.

Has anybody done anything like this? On first thought, it seems like I may probably run into speed issue with reading in the data and translating it into something that will be sent to the TLC5940s....

Any thoughts on this topic?

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Nobody has done this??? Nobody has received MIDI data and translated it into LED matrix control info??? I know I'm not original here... don't be shy, peeps... let's start a dialog... I've never done anything like this, so I'm flying blind...

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Well I have done the hardware bit in a Monome:-
http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Hardware/Mini_Monome.html

And received MIDI in:-
http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Hardware/Glockenspiel.html

So it shouldn't be too hard to put them together.