YouTuber Alex Coover, aka Glacial Geyser, has build an awesome Arduino-powered MIDI controller to help with his budding music career. Here's a demo.

The Arduino blog explains a little more about the construction of the MIDI controller : MIDI controllers can be great instruments to supplement your musical skills.

Thorin Klosowski DIY musical instruments are their own thing entirely, but if you're looking for a place to start, Adafruit has a guide to building your own MIDI controller using an Arduino.

When looking through existing Arduino drum kit projects, [joekutz] noticed that most of them just used the microcontroller as an input for an existing MIDI device. That’s fine if you’re… ...