midi_forwarder

A small program that takes USB-MIDI from e.g. a Keyboard and forwards it through your PC to a Synthesizer.

Features

• Real-time MIDI message forwarding
• Visible Notes with octave shifting
• Terminal with MIDI-data

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• mido (pip install mido)
• python-rtmidi (pip install python-rtmidi)

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Install requirements as mentioned

Usage

Run directly:

python midi_forwarder.py

Or build executable:

pyinstaller --onefile midi_forwarder.py

Configuration

Edit the script to:

• Change input/output ports
• Modify octave shift value
• Adjust other parameters

Building for Distribution

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed midi_forwarder.py

The executable will be created in the dist folder.

Additional notice

This build was created with the help of BLACKBOX AI (www.blackbox.ai). Other Librarys that are used but should come preinstalled on your python-build are tkinter, queue and threading.