Also PSA: there is a mac beta available: https://tommitytom.co.uk/retroplug-mac.zip

If you mean you want to use MIDI to actually record the note data into a phrase in LSDJ, that isn't possible. If you want to use MIDI to play each channel like you would a normal VSTi, that is possible using the Keyboard mode but as far as I know you can only play 1 channel at a time and there are other restrictions (you can only play at the current groove in the currently playing phrase). So to answer your question, it's mostly the latter, to play back what you've programmed in LSDJ. Otherwise what you probably want instead is mGB, which treats the Gameboy more like a typical VSTi synth. It only takes MIDI input and there is no real sequencing possible in the rom, you do all the sequencing via MIDI in the DAW. https://github.com/trash80/mGB

This (RetroPlug + mGB) is exactly what I've been searching for for years. Thank you so much!

eagerly awaiting a mac version!

same

egr wrote:

"SameBoy has to be built using msys2 (mingw) on Windows" is confusing me, is that something I should be doing?

nope only if you want to build it from source!

fyi there was an issue about sameboy not playing samples correctly, it's fixed in retroplug v0.4

I'm finding that changing my audio buffer size changes the RetroPlug play speed in a way unrelated to Live's bpm... does that make sense at all?

"SameBoy has to be built using msys2 (mingw) on Windows" is confusing me, is that something I should be doing?

nope only if you want to build it from source!

fyi there was an issue about sameboy not playing samples correctly, it's fixed in retroplug v0.4

I feel like this is something I've been wanting for years, but when I stop and think about it, what is the actual benefit opposed to just syncing a DMG to a DAW? A high res display? Am I old?

I don't have to bring a DMG to gigs, I run my whole set in the box as it is so I don't have to use another mixer channel, I don't have to try to buy my Arduinoboy back from nullmang...