Nintendo DS

[jksuperstar]

Ok, so this isn't an apple product, but sits in the exact same class, and much of the development work that went into the Nintendo DS as a music machine was then ported to the iPhone later on.

I'm in the process of adding a hardware midi port, rather than wifi, so I can avoid having a computer around all the time. It's through an SPI port, so easy to interface to, and there's cheap hardware available to do this.

Links:
http://www.nintendo.com/ds

DSMI (offers MIDI and OSC via WiFi)
http://dsmi.tobw.net/forums.html?cat_id=1

Hardware Interface (debug, MIDI, SD card storage) (the DSMI lib above supports this card)
http://www.electrobee.com/dserial-edge-p-45.html

Tools for writing your own programs
http://www.devkitpro.org/

Technical Reference:
http://www.bottledlight.com/ds/forums.html

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[jksuperstar]

Oh, almost forgot the really good stuff:
http://remaincalm.org/forums.html/ds-music-apps

[iPassenger]

jksuperstar,

Will this DSMIDIWifi Server convert OSC data into Midi for me on my pc?

Cheers

R.

[jksuperstar]

Not that I know of. This is what I've put together, though it may not be accurate:
Supposedly OSC doesn't need DSMIDI at all, since it is already a network protocol, and TX and RX machines already know how to construct and deconstruct OSC packets, and use the same port#. DSMIDI (the client on your computer) just talks it's own midi packets. However, the DSMIDI library provides the OSC support to applications.

I'm notsure if it's RTP-MIDI compatible (RTP MIDI is an open standard to transmit MIDI over LAN, which Apple uses for midi over lan).
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/rtpmidi/

[BobTheDog]

[iPassenger]

Cheers for the responses, this is as I thought, nice if there was something a bit simpler that required less seperate programs (and thus pc resources).

Might try yr dsmidi thing though.