A stereo audio jack lives at the other end of the assembly, and the whole synth is powered parasitically off the MIDI port. The first half of the video below is mostly a demo that proves the synth ...

A bunch of pads connected to a MIDI out port is as old an idea as the Akai MPC. creating a homebrew version is great, but [Scott] took his version one step further. He used old laptop trackpads to ...

You don’t need an audio-interface middleman for this USB MIDI information, only a spare USB port for the device, which also tends to provide the device’s power. However, it isn’t always this ...