Blazor and the Web MIDI API Friday, 9pm Yesterday, speaking to the NE:Tech user group about V-Drum Explorer, someone mentioned the Web MIDI API– a way of accessing local MIDI devices from a browser. Now my grasp of JavaScript is tenuous at best… but that’s okay, because I can write C# using Blazor. So in … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer:…
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12 Jul 2020
3 Mar 2020
My current clunky “put all the code in the view” approach to V-Drum Explorer is creaking at the seams. I’m really not a WPF developer, and my understanding of MVVM is more theoretical than practical. I’ve read a reasonable amount, but quite a lot of aspects of V-Drum Explorer don’t really fit with the patterns … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer:…
25 Feb 2020
So, just to recap, I’m writing an explorer for my Roland V-Drums set (currently a TD-17, but with a TD-27 upgrade on the way, excitingly). This involves copying configuration data from the module (the main bit of electronics involved) into the application, displaying with it, editing it, then copying it back again so that I … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer:…
11 Nov 2019
If this is the first blog post about V-Drum Explorer you’ve read, see the first post in this series for the background. In this post we’ll look at the MIDI interface I use in V-Drum Explorer to send and receive configuration information. MIDI basics (Apologies to anyone who really knows their stuff about MIDI – … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer:…
31 Oct 2019
This is the first in what I expect to be quite a long series of blog posts, meandering over a fairly wide range of topics as they crop up. There’s nothing particularly technical in this introductory post. It’s really just a starting point. V-Drums In July 2019, inspired/encouraged by a friend name Alice, I bought … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer:…