I'm simply curious to know whether midi input will be added natively to Pico-8. I enjoy composing in FamiTracker using my KORG nanoKEY2 (tiny piano keyboard for entering midi notes), and I really wish I could do the same in Pico-8. I guess there are workarounds for this, but, I'm still hoping this will be added in the future; it'd really push this product over the edge for me enjoyability wise.

A big problem with the music editor for me is having to click repeatedly to change the tracks in the pattern editor. It gets really tiring when creating bigger songs.

FamiTracker can export text data. Has anyone written a conversion script between this export data and Pico-8? If not, I might wind up doing this eventually. Course, there'd be the proviso that the resulting sounds would be different, but perhaps reasonable mappings could be found between a subset of FamiTracker's effects/envelopes etc. and Pico-8's capabilities.

Hey, did you ever do this conversion tool from Famitracker-text to PICO-8? You also mentioned this in another forum thread. I think this would be quite an achievement!

If it can be of any use, a while ago I wrote a super small utility for Windows based on rtmidi that listens to the MIDI device and converts notes to key presses that work in the PICO-8 music editor: https://github.com/samhocevar/midi2pico8

I haven’t tested it on any other device than ours (an Alesis VMini) and it also misbehaves on French AZERTY keyboards (the note for “M” does not work), but it might be useful as an example.

sam. I am dumb. Is there no compiled Windows executable for your tool? I don't know how to compile it. I tried in visualstudio and it just fails.

@Tense mmmh, the code is a bit messy, it’s not your fault. I have uploaded an executable to make things easier!

I dig up this thread because I downloaded and modified your project @samhocevar. It works very well, thank you for the work!

I made some modifications to make it work with my Axiom 25. I was able to bind many shortcuts, which is great! Although I'm still a bit limited by the lack of keyboard shortcuts for setting instrument, volume, octave, and effect.

Does anyone know if these kinds of shortcut could be added to a future update?