PICO-8 MIDI to Keyboard

A program which converts MIDI inputs to keyboard inputs, allowing MIDI devices to be used with PICO-8.

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Running

On Windows, run:

.\midi-to-keyboard-windows.exe

Specifying which MIDI controller to use

To specify which MIDI controller to use, figure out its name and then enter its as the first argument.

Partial matches also work. The search is case sensitive. For example, if your controller is called "microKey-25", you can use it with the command:

.\midi-to-keyboard-windows.exe microKEY

MIDI to key conversion

The following mapping is used:

MIDI	ASCII
0-31	32-63
32-62	96-125

An inverse mapping can be created like this:

key_to_midi={}
for i=32,63 do
  key_to_midi[chr(i)]=i-32
end
for i=96,125 do
  key_to_midi[chr(i)]=32+(i-96)
end

Building

Windows

Open the midi-to-keyboard project in Visual Studio and build.

Mac

Run ./build-osx.sh.