How to set my MIDI Sprout from Plantwave into Tidal?

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Hi everyone in the Tidal community! :slight_smile:

I’m currently stuck trying to connect my MidiSprout from Plantwave to Tidal.

A few days ago, I posted a thread about how to manage the MidiSprout with SuperCollider. I'm not really a scientist but a musician. :slight_smile: I really love coding, but SuperCollider is a bit complicated for me, especially when trying to connect the MidiSprout into a SynthDef with scale...

I've played with a few SynthDefs just for fun, but I wanted to connect them with something more organic. Anyway...

After doing some research, I found Tidal! I tested it, and it's awesome! You can start making music quickly and easily, and I love it! So, I thought I’d try to learn this language. :slight_smile:

But how do I make the plant "sing" in Tidal? Everything related to MIDI is working fine in SuperCollider, but how do I connect it with Tidal?

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Tom

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Hi ! i just want to get and quantize (or scale) midi note to Tidal... google doesn't help me... i just found how to control an external midi synth, and this is not what i'm looking for...

Thanks ! :slight_smile:

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For Sprout’s MIDI note data, MIDI_to_tidalcycles should work (:

It’s a Python tool that takes a .mid file as input and spits out editable tidalcycles code.

MIDI CC (the “continuous” output from Sprout for controlling knobs ) isn’t supported yet. but maybe this will be the catalyst / maybe i’ll do it for the plants :seedling:

morphing continuous automations / recorded CC is limited in a DAW and i’d personally rather do it with Tidal and use the DAW just for visualization

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Hi! Thanks for your reply :slightly_smiling_face:
The reason I’m going to code myself is that Ableton 11 on an old MBP 2011 can’t handle more than 3 Live MIDI tracks from MidiSprout + plugins. I can’t take my project further anymore.

I know a bit of SuperCollider, but not enough to make it work easily with MIDI input. That’s why Tidal or Max 8 seem like the best options, as I just want to make music with data and not dive deeper into learning a new language… well, not yet anyway. :blush:

As you know, plants give me a lot of data, and I understand it might be difficult to manage all of this… except in Ableton.