A DIY MIDI file player with fluidsynth, pirate audio and Raspberry PI Zero 2

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"In this video, I'm building a General MIDI file player with a "Pirimoni Pirate Audio" board, a Raspberry PI 2 Zero and Python and FluidSynth. Table of contents:

00:00 demo 01
00:16 hello
00:31 parts needed
01:12 assemble
01:32 install raspbian 32 bit lite
01:53 boot and log in
02:16 install updates
02:31 install the audio board
03:02 install fluidsynth
03:38 install python and libraries
03:56 st7789 libraries and example codes and libopenblas
04:35 enable high priority mode
05:07 upload some midifiles and play back files from the command line
05:39 adding more soundfonts
05:50 a python script for playback control
07:40 you can add your ideas easily ;-)
07:50 conclusion
08:21 demo 02

Links:
Raspberry PI 2 Zero [Amazon DE | Amazon US]
Pirate Audio board: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pi...

All command line commands:
Install 32 bit os lite, bookworm or bullseye

ssh to raspberrypi
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install fluidsynth
sudo raspi-config - turn on spi and i2c
sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt, add

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac
gpio=25=op,dh

sudo apt-get install python3-rpi.gpio python3-spidev python3-pip python3-pil python3-numpy
sudo pip3 install pidi-display-st7789
sudo pip3 install pyfluidsynth
sudo apt install git

git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/st7789-py...
cd st7789-python/examples/
sudo apt install libopenblas-dev
python3 scrolling-text.py

sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf

@audio - rtprio 90
@audio - memlock unlimited

sudo reboot

cd /usr/share/sounds/sf2

sudo wget http://ntonyx.com/soft/32MbGMStereo.sf2
sudo wget https://musical-artifacts.com/artifac...

(Download any MIDI file)

fluidsynth -a alsa -n -i /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 midifile.mid




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