This all started with me trying to balance music books against the TV behind my setup. Being a somewhat skilled(?) engineer, I soon surmised this was not working and wouldn’t it be nice if by some magic my music was on the TV …
After iterating through a few more balancing acts (no iPads were harmed mostly) … the penny dropped. Perhaps a Raspberry Pi connected to the TV would work …
Requirements
- Network sharing to my windows computer to view my music books.
- Extended Goal 1 - can USB MIDI just work out of the box???
- Extended Goal 2 - what it does ?!?! get me a sequencer!!
- Extended Goal 3 - World domination
I started to write some instructions here but ran into formatting problems … so I did a blog post.
tldr; I installed on a standard Raspberry Pi 4 desktop.
- SAMBA windows network shares to RPi.
- Connecting harware via USB MIDI just works out of the box on std RPi
- Seq24 can work on std RPi
- Seq64 can work after installing KX:Studio Repository of Linux Audio apps & plugins.