# DIY Midi to Trigger interface? Arduino? **URL:** \ **Category:** DIY STUFF\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/diy-midi-to-trigger-interface-arduino/2965 "2021-02-17T11:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![fredrik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/fredrik/32/682_2.png) [@fredrik](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/fredrik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/diy-midi-to-trigger-interface-arduino/2965/9 "2021-02-17T13:03:43Z")
It’s the wrong one, though 😀 – it’s out of spec for MIDI, and harder to get your hands on than isolators that are within spec. > [@Module requests](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/module-requests/39/62): > > 6N138 is [a JEDEC part code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC) so they all have the same basic specs. Just grab one in the right package (DIP/PDIP for through hole, not SMD). Note that 6N138 appears in a lot of internet schematics, but strictly speaking it’s not fast enough to match the MIDI spec requirements, even if that probably doesn’t matter for normal use. (I use 6N137 instead, which is much faster, has a logic gate output instead of a darlington transistor which is nice since you’re connecting it to a logic gate input, an… (the self-contained code for the GAMEBOY MINIMACHINE linked from that post would be trivial to tweak for this task, btw, or you can grab the standard Arduino MIDI library and hack something together on top of that). --- _[View the full topic](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/diy-midi-to-trigger-interface-arduino/2965)._