Transform Your Cheap Keyboard into a MIDI Piano 🎹 | Easy DIY Tutorial

This is a tutorial for adding a MIDI port to a keyboard without one, so that you can use to interface with various programs such as FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase, Garage Band, Pro Tools, and more.\r<br>Also works with Synthesia!\r<br>\r<br>Become my patron on Patreon and help me shape the future of this channel!\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>facebook | \r<br>instagram | \r<br>twitter | \r<br>\r<br>--------------------\r<br>\r<br>MATERIAL:\r<br>Arduino UNO: \r<br>74HC595 shift registers: \r<br>Resistor pack: \r<br>Perfboard: \r<br>MIDI port: \r<br>Male pin headers: \r<br>Female pin headers: \r<br>\r<br>SOLDERING GEAR:\r<br>Weller WES51 Analog Soldering Station: \r<br>MG Chemicals Silver Solder: \r<br>Helping hand: \r<br>\r<br>TEST GEAR:\r<br>Multimeter: \r<br>Breadboard & Jumpers: \r<br>\r<br>ARDUINO CODE:\r<br>Pull-up resistor version:\r<br>\r<br>Pull-down resistor version:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>--------------------\r<br>\r<br>MORE USEFUL LINKS:\r<br>\r<br>Printable/Text version of this tutorial:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Tips on Figuring out a Key Matrix (scan matrix):\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Shift Registers rundown:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Pull-up/pull-down resistors:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Installing Arduino:\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Arduino language tutorial (although the code used in this video is pretty self-explanatory):\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>MIDI note table:\r<br>