On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 08:18 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 07:09 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote: > >> I believe MIDIbox/UCapps was the first open source DIY MIDI > controller > >> project I knew about personally anyway :) > >> > >> http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html > > > > MIDIbox SID V1 > > Created 2002/2003 > > > > So no, there were projects 20 years earlier. There was no Internet > > I don't know 20 years earlier, but my first MIDI HW build was late 80s > (88 or 89) That was the time when I programmed and build MIDI equipment too, I started using MIDI some years before in 1983 or 1984, with a DX7 and 4-track without a computer, but IIRC even in the early years there were free/open projects, e.g. to MIDIfy CV/Gate synth. Some circuits and software likely were not free/open, but public by piracy. On the quick I found a book from 1990 ST and another one from 1988 C64. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
