I am currently waiting for the message that my Pocket has been shipped. Should be any day now 
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And I am wondering about something. I will be using my Pocket Reform as a musical instrument (among other things), probably with Puredata. I have bought some translucent keycaps and I am planning to make a grid of 4x8 of them on the keyboard. I was wondering how hard it would be to include a midi-mode in the firmware of the keyboard. OSC would be even better, but midi is fine and probably easier. I read that the chip for the keyboard has a midi library so I hope it would be not too hard.
Is also the trackball on the same controller?
My dream scenario would be
- Normal keyboard mode at boot & reboot
- Press shortcut - 2-3 buttons to switch into midi mode
- Midi notes and velocity would be easy to set by the user. Does not have to change often.
- Button down = send note x, velocity Y
- Button up = send note x, velocity 0
- Send midi note x to the keyboard = control light on corresponding button. Velocity 0 = light off, velocity Y = different colors and fade level
- Trackball move left = CC x, value 1-5 depending on speed
- Trackball move right = CC x, value 122-127 depending on speed
- Trackball move up = CC Y, value 1-5 depending on speed
- Trackball move down = CC Y, value 122-127 depending on speed
- Press shortcut - 2-3 buttons to switch into normal keyboard mode
What do you think 
? I would be happy to help where I could, but firmware is maybe a bit above my level. But if something would be started I would be happy to follow up.