Ports is an OSC to CV/Gate and MIDI converter. Built to run on raspberry pi zero w (or other raspberry pi variants). It listens for incoming OSC messages on port 5000.
It will convert them into CV/Trigger and gate on the MAX11300 chip or MIDI messages (see API section of this readme)
During this procedure we assume that you have access to your pi, using a screen + keyboard, or over SSH.
- download the raspbian lite image. you only need the lite version (no need for X windows and similar things) https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian
- Install raspbian on your pi. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/
- Enable sshd by putting an empty file called ssh on the boot partition.
touch /Volumes/boot/sshon mac. - get your pi connected on the internet
- use a wired ethernet connection. just plug the pi into your router.
- or setup wifi as described https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md
Ports could work on other linux flavours such as osmc etc, but the automatic WLAN fallback might not work as expected as WLAN is distro specific.
/install.sh (below) assumes the system is a raspbian jessie.
Clone ports repository git clone https://github.com/hdavid/ports.git
- if git is not installed, just run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git
Then from the ports directory run ./install.sh
This will:
- download and install the SPI broadcom drivers
- install liblo osc lib package
- install dnsmsaq package (dns, dhcp for accesspoint mode)
- compile ports
- configure fall back access point ssid:
ports, psk:portsports - configure ports to start at boot time automatically
you can also install pink, to provide ableton link. run ./install-pink.sh
If no known wifi network is in range, ports will create an access point :
- ssid: ports
- psk: portsports
You can add your own wifi networks in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
Make sure to enter your network before the one added by ports (identified by ssid="ports" and mode=2), as wpa_supplicant try the networks in the order they appear in this configuration file.
Example of network configuration :
network={
str_id="myNetworkFriendlyName"
ssid="myNetwork"
psk="MyPassword"
}
Port must run as root on order to access SPI bus used to communicate with the MAX11300. Note that ports is started automatically at boot time. (done by ./install.sh)
you can however start manually from
sudo /usr/local/bin/portsd no-daemon
OSC Port: 5000
/out/<[1-20]>/<mode> <float>
mode is one of : trig, gate, flipflop, cvuni, cvbi, lfosine, lfosaw, lfotri, lfosquare
unipolar is [0v 10v]. bipolar is [-5v +5v]. LFO rates are in Hertz. other input values are in the range [0 1] and mapped to the cv voltage.
for now the MIDI device is hardcoded in the code to be the first usb device plugged. /dev/snd/midiC1D0 is easily changeable in Ports.cpp.
/midi/<channel>/cc/<midiCC> <value>
/midi/<channel>/noteOn/<noteNumber> <velocity>
/midi/<channel>/noteOff/<noteNumber> <velocity>
channel: 1-16
noteNumber, midiCC, velocity, value : 1-127