How to link a gui slider with a midi controller?

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As an alternative, you may want to take a look at a quark that aims to provide this functionality.
(Disclaimer: I made it)

Knobs, sliders, textfields that can send and listen to midi devices

I’d like to introduce a project I started to “scratch my own itch”, and which is a small library of bi-directional midi controls. Bi-directional means: if you modify controls in the GUI, the new values are sent to a midi device, and if the midi device sends a control change, the ui automatically updates to reflect the received values. For now, the library has a small selection of controls (knob, slider, textfield, and a textview for logging purposes) which nevertheless already open up many poss…