Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@mrWinston

mrWinston/how-to.md

Last active March 11, 2024 08:25
Show Gist options
  • Save mrWinston/2a3a723f97816dfe43bcf9a846fbf036 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save mrWinston/2a3a723f97816dfe43bcf9a846fbf036 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Midi over Bluetooth setup in Bitwig
Raw
how-to.md

How to set up Midi over Bluetooth with Bitwig under Ubuntu 22.04

Getting Midi over Bluetooth (MoB) to work together with Bitwig under Ubuntu 22.04 requires you to jump through a few hoops. Two main issues need to be navigated around:

  1. The ubuntu userspace bluetooth driver does not have midi enabled
  2. Bitwig only accepts hardware Midi devices, while MoB creates a software midi device

Fixing the first requires us to build bluez from scratch and enable the midi functionality as a compiler flag: https://tttapa.github.io/Pages/Ubuntu/Software-Installation/BlueZ.html

The second issue is resolved using virtual midi devices and the a2jmidid-bridge: https://github.com/anton-k/linux-audio-howto/blob/master/doc/os-setup/virtual-midi.md

@Merlin04
Copy link

I was able to use carla to directly connect the virtual midi device and the BLE midi device without needing a2jmidid! not sure how universally that will work but figure I should mention that in case it's useful to anyone

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment