Serial to MIDI?

Questions
1

Hey! My arduino is sending and receiving MIDI thanks to the great arduino MIDI library. Unfortunately, the MIDI messages are exchanged through the serial interface, as the arduino is not exposed as a MIDI USB device.

I’m looking for a way to bridge the serial port in order to use it in a more convenient manner from SC (on linux).

I see several approaches, and would like to hear your advices on the matter:

  1. Use a more recent arduino that can do software USB and directly expose my arduino as a MIDI USB device
  2. Write a small utility that opens the serial port, registers a Jack MIDI client and bridges between the two
  3. In SC, find a way to expose a Serial object to MIDIIn and MIDIOut objects?

Am I missing something? How would you do it?

2

Nevermind, just after finishing this post, I found ttymidi and hairless midi serial.