Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to write a program to generate some basic midi notes based on buttons.
I have the project all laid out in my mind, the only thing I am unfamiliar with is writing/transmitting MIDI notes. At first I thought I would need a shield, but a bit of googling revealed that you can simply use the serial ports.
As I understand it, the 4 most significant bits refer to the command you wish to send, and the 4 least significant identify the channel number.
I have previous experience joining two bytes to make an int and vice versa, but I'm not sure how to go about building a full byte from scratch if you will.
Can anyone recommend the documentation that will help me achieve this correctly? I imagine I'll be using bit shifting, similar to what I did joining bytes together, but I'm unsure how I should go about configuring individual bits in a byte.
*just a though now: would it actually be easier if I calculated the decimals that represent the bit states I want and then add the numbers to the byte?
Thanks in advance 