Hi all, this is my first post here. I wanted to share a project I'm working on and I wasn't sure where to do so but this seemed like a good place to start.
As I'm sure you know, the Juno-60 and other Roland products of that era used a proprietary sequencing interface called DCB which is, much to the dismay of many current Juno owners, incompatible with MIDI. There are some third party DCB-to-MIDI converters but the prices seemed outrageous so I decided to try building one myself. Turns out all it takes is the right connector and a $20 Arduino. It's not quite finished yet, but if and when I get it working would people be interested if I posted the source code and some instructions for how to make one of these yourself?
(Caveats: I'm only testing this on the Juno-60 but it should be compatible with any DCB device. I also currently have it set up to take DCB-out to MIDI-out, which would let the Juno act as a MIDI controller but not itself be controlled by a MIDI sequencer, but it wouldn't be too hard to make it bidirectional.)
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