I have a MIDI foot controller that I want to use with a guitar amp. The amp has a USB port but no MIDI DIN connectors. Both have USB-B "device" connectors only.
Using adaptors to connect the controller directly to the amp did not work. So I started reading about the need for a MIDI controller in between.
As a test, I ran the foot controller via USB to my PC and used a MIDI utility to echo it out to the amp via USB. That works great, but it was only for testing purposes. Carrying a PC around to go in the middle is not worth the effort.
I found a project on the hackaday site called "USB Host MIDI for Two" that uses two Trinket M0's to do what I believed I needed to do - provide host controller functionality to both of my devices.
I built the device and went through flashing the Trinkets to the best of my understanding using a file I downloaded from the github project. But it's not working with my devices.
I must admit that I'm very limited in my programming ability. I know that you guys did not post the project, but the person who did has not responded to my inquiry. So I thought I would see if someone here could take a look at the info on the github page for the project and see what I might be able to do to get it working. You guys would know more about what you're looking at than I do.
Here are some points that left me uncertain:
- On the project home page there are two links for firmware. But, as far as I can tell, you can only flash one file to the Trinket M0's. So I'm not sure if I downloaded the correct uf2 file from github or if I was supposed to somehow incorporate more than one. I downloaded the file MIDIUARTUSBH.ino.trinket_m0.uf2 from this page.
I can connect my foot controller and run MIDI CC into the project from either Trinket and I can see pulses on the UART TX lines using an oscilloscope. But apparently the Trinkets don't put the MIDI commands out the USB connector.
There is a revision of the code called "Update USB host MIDI to make MIDI thru controlled by pin 0." I have tried grounding pin 0 since it looks like that's required to pass thru MIDI. That didn't fix the problem.
Thanks.
Scott