So I have this Korg DW8000 synthesizer in my room downstairs that is gathering some dust. I was thinking that I might want to augment its functionality with a Raspberry Pi. This would allow me to get back into music, and midi, and related programming efforts. Right now the biggest need is for a Midi Patch Editor. I have sorta one on my iPad, but to do the same thing on an RPi2 would be neat.
So what would such an augmenting tool do? It depends on what I have access to within the synthesizer itself. If I can interface to the inside, I would have better capabilities, maybe even adding things that the DW8000 synthesizer cannot do in its present form. Let's list the possibilities:
1. A Midi Patch editor that has a user interface that will allow custom changes to the voices
2. SysEx capabilities, including loading patches during live performance; grabbing individual voices from multiple patches to form a different patch
3. A midi recorder/player
4. A midi translator (assumes internal connections); translation of key signature up/down, voice/channel mix, etc.
-- Midi event processor
-- Midi patchbay/merger/router/filter
5. Keyboard shift, multiple voices across keyboard sections (assumes internal connections)
6. Midi foot controller "brain"
More thoughts later.
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