Processing and MIDI direct output

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Hi all, i've received my arduino diecimila just monday, and like many others i wanna make some midi controller for music production program (FL, reason...)
As first thing i would like to connect a potentiometer and have it send MIDI control message when turned, so after googling and trying some example with potentiometer, i've run into the problem of having direct MIDI output from arduino usb cable (i've got no MIDI port on the pc ) , and after seeing the possible solution i tough of creating a processing sketch that would catch the MIDI message from the USB and output them in a way recognized by Windows.
To do this, i think i will have to make the sketch:
1st: read from usb untile recognize a midi message
2: catch it
3: output it
i found this library

that should do the midi outputting , but i've never used processing, has someone done something similiar or has got some snippet of code i could see ? :smiley:

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You may find this post useful: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1161023163

I have not used the Roland driver myself as I use a MIDI interface between my Arduino projects and PC but have used serial out from the Arduino direct to PC then using Adobe Director to do processing. Heres a couple of utils I found useful http://members.nextra.at/hubwin/midi.html & http://www.midiox.com/

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http://www.combatdave.com/?p=48

exactly what you're talking about, i think