MIDI Synths and Arduinos

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What

I've got some Arduino Pro Nano's and some DIN5 connectors from Adafruit, so time to do something with it. Some ideas:

MIDI enabled synth

MIDI in

Implement the MIDI protocol and read the notes that are being transmitted from a keyboard or sequencer. Later on information about velocity would also be nice.

Sound output

Multiple possibilities here:

Arduino as synth

The Arduino is capable of producing sound on its own, so write/borrow some code and connect a jack connector to the Arduino and we're done.

Driving the Korg Monotron

I own a Korg Monotron and supposedly they are very easy to modify. It would be awesome to be able to play it with a decent keyboard.

Drive a sound chip

555
Yamaha OPL2 / OPL3

MIDI player / sequencer

Start with implementing MIDI out and go from there.