Hey guys, first post on here, so thanks in advance!
My apologies if any of this is ridiculous, I'm super new to this. I've been trying to figure out a way to control some of my current hardware (Dhp-33, microkorg, Kaoss Pad) and some future hardware (Akai mpx8, Korg volca keys, etc) using some sort of portable sequencer or controller. I was using SoundOSC with my laptop for awhile, but my laptop is getting a bit old, and dragging it around everywhere then setting it up is a little bit of a hassle.
Then I found a video of a person controlling a volca keys with a GB running LSDJ through Arduinoboy, which is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16uCL9eXa0g
I read the description and it says lsdj can output to four different midi channels. My mind instantly starting racing at the possibility of composing on the fly with a GB, coming home and hooking it up and jamming out, or just taking a couple of my portable stuffs (like the microkorg) with me and making stuff on my breaks at work, and making chip music to mix with my music.
But I am still new to this, and there's some things I am confused on.
1. Is this possible? I mean, there is the video of the volca keys above, but how would I separate the singular midi output on the Arduinoboy to 4 different devices? A splitter maybe?
2. I'm still a bit confused on getting the rom onto a flash cart, do you need some kind of usb connection to load it onto the cart?
3. If it is possible, is there some way to hook up two GBs so they run with in sync while still controlling devices?
I feel confident that I could modify a GB to get it chiptune ready and build an Arduinoboy (mostly thanks to some very detailed instructables), but I just wanted to make sure this was possible before I went down this path. Any tutorials that would help with these questions would be much appreciated because I haven't seemed to find any.
Anyways, thank you guys again for the help!