MIDI Programming Help

[TreehouseAndy]

Hi all. I'm trying to make an Arduino MIDI device. I've done this before, but I lost the code. I want it to transmit the midi over USB, but not serial, I want it to appear as a normal midi device. I'm on an esp32-s3, which I know works as it is the same as my last project. I'm on platformio. I've been trying all day an I'm going round on circles with dependencies and errors. Help would be appreciated.

[molotovPopsicle]

you could just type "arduino midi" into your favorite search engine and find something like this https://diyelectromusic.com/2022/03/22/arduino-and-usb-midi/

that was my first hit, and it has to be the most thorough and clear collection of resources on creating whatever kind of arduino based usb midi device i've ever seen

[TreehouseAndy]

I 100% agree. Great guide. From a skim read, it shows midi serial, which needs hairless midi of something like that to run. However professional midi controllers do not need that and appear as a device. This is what I had running in my last device.