In reality however, making music has never been more accessible, and armed with just a computer and one of the best cheap MIDI keyboards you can start creating songs for relatively little outlay. A ...

That’s it on the left, next to a standard MIDI cable plug. The whole thing is so small it fits inside a MIDI plug and can run off the power supplied by the MIDI output, driving a small pizeo buzzer.

Other keyboards within this price range tend not ... Being a beginner, you may think that you have to start with one of these small MIDI controllers in order to learn the ropes.

Building a MIDI device is always a great microcontroller project, and nearly everyone has an old toy keyboard lying around in the back of a closet or in the basement. [JenShen] decided to take one ...