just for relaxing:
youtube - I should not take smartphone videos for presentation 
I did a (awful) video of my maple MIDI mini, synced to REAPER sequencer.
All is working as expected: Sync from REAPER, getting data (song position, note on/note off, CC data (the blue line) and so on. Done with ILI9341 DUE DMA library.
Coding time for this: less than an hour. perfect conditions for a real project!