Developer Matthias Frick – who created the Bluetooth over MIDI app MIDI LE – wants to take the technology to the next level.

Here’s created sketches for the Arduino platform designed to connect USB MIDI devices to OS X and iOS wirelessly over Bluetooth.

Here’s what he has to say about the video demo, embedded above:

I’ll be soon publishing Arduino sketches + the needed items to connect USB Class compliant MIDI Devices to OS X / iOS via MIDI Over Bluetooth. For now it’s just a working prototype – the result of hacking and playing around with Arduino for 24 hours (since I’ve never used Arduino before, I had to face the learning curve first).

Doesn’t do bi-directional communications for now, so you can only control the remote device. Hope to get that in there in the future as well. It also has a few quirks here and there mainly because Apple hasn’t published the MIDI-BLE specifications yet and hides them from the user on iOS and OSX. So this might take a fair amount of time to reverse-engineer.

With the right casing, a battery-pack and a little keyboard this might be a nice item to take on the road for mobile music making.

Hardware used:

• RedBearLab Blend Micro
• SparkFun USB Host Shield
• AKAI MPK Mini
• iPad

Software:

• Moog Animoog
• MIDI LE @ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/midi-…

The system is still under development, but Fricke says that he plans to submit the Arduino code to the open source community soon.