OSCulator to Arduino Mega for triggering solenoids

[bpetuch]

Hello,

I'm trying to send MIDI data from OSCulator to my Arduino Mega through a serial port. Is this possible to do? I read some forum discussion from 10 years ago but it seems to not have continued. I can get the MIDI from Logic Pro X to correctly register into OSCulator, I just can't figure out how to send it from OSCulator to my Arduino Mega.

Any ideas on how to do this?


And in general, I just purchased OSCulator 3.0 and am having a difficult time! I'm a musician by trade and have little to no experience with coding and tinkering with tech in general. All of the documentation (manual, videos, etc) are for older versions and I can not understand what to do in OSCulator. Thanks in advance for any advise! Please let me know if you need more info from me to understand the situation.

[bpetuch]

Ok update, I found a solution if anyone else needs to solve this problem in the future! I had Chat GPT write me the following python script to create a bridge similar to "Hairless Bridge" that works on Windows.



import serial
import mido

# Set up the serial connection to your Arduino
# Replace '/dev/cu.usbmodem143401' with the correct port for your Arduino
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/cu.usbmodem143401', 9600, timeout=1)

# Set up the MIDI port
# Use the name of the port you created in your IAC Driver, in this case, 'IAC Driver Output to Arduino'
midi_port = mido.open_input('IAC Driver Output to Arduino')

print("Sending MIDI messages to Arduino...")

# Main loop to listen for MIDI messages
try:
for msg in midi_port:
# Check if the message is a 'note on' or 'note off' message
if msg.type == 'note_on' or msg.type == 'note_off':
# Convert MIDI message to bytes and send over serial
ser.write(msg.bytes())
print("Sent:", msg)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
# Close the serial port when done
ser.close()
print("Closed MIDI and Serial connections.")

# Use this to close the serial port if the loop exits without a keyboard interrupt
ser.close()



Running this in terminal I was able to send OSC messages from OSCulator into the serial port, which Arduino then could interpret. Here's an overview of the final version of the project...


Logic Pro X (create midi instrument track and put in notes) ---> IAC Driver (create a port on the IAC Driver and in Logic make the MIDI Instrument's "MIDI Destination:" your newly created port) ---> OSCulator (the only thing you need to do is in the "Devices" tab select your IAC Driver you created under the "MIDI Input Ports" column) ---> Python script (script above, creates a bridge to pass the OSC messages) ---> Arduino Mega



If anyone is trying to do something similar and have a hard time I'd be happy to give advise if I can.
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