Ohio-based vintage computing specialist Legacy Pixels has launched a slick add-on which offers a true hardware MIDI interface for MiSTer FPGA-based emulation systems, compatible with a selection of cores and hardware.

“[This is a] hardware MIDI interface for your MiSTer setup,” the company writes of its creation, which comes housed in a neat 3D-printed casing exposing a micro-USB port at the rear and a pair of MIDI DIN connectors at the frotn. “[It] plugs into the I/O Board User Port and provides a direct interface to the FPGA core. The ultimate in low-latency MIDI connectivity!”

• MiSTer I/O Board v5.5 or Digital I/O Board v1.2 or newer
• Tested with cores designed to emulate the Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga, the Sharp X68000, and IBM Compatibles using the ao486 core
• Should theoretically work with any hardware or DAW that does general MIDI I/O.
• As of the time of this post, $32 from Legacy Pixels https://www.tindie.com/products/legacypixels/midi-interface-for-mister-fpga/