I made a thing

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I haven’t used my Electra much recently, but had an idea to use it for my NDLR. Actually had the NDLR up for sale because I am old and the tiny screen hurts my eyes and brain, but then I realized I could create a preset for it with the Electra and have a better display. But as an old software guy I didn’t feel like using a GUI editor so I (plus GPT and Anthropic Claude) wrote a converter from markdown. I pulled the MIDI spec from the NDLR manual, and turned it into a couple of markdown tables, and then wrote a Python script to turn that into JSON. It only does faders, pads and lists right now, and only 7-bit CC messages, but that’s all I needed; I may add more later.

If you’re interested you can see it at GitHub - gramster/md2electraone: A Python program to convert a Markdown document describing MIDI CCs to a preset for the Electra One . The input looks like md2electraone/specs/ndlr2.md at main · gramster/md2electraone · GitHub , for example.

Hope someone else finds it useful. Would be happy to take contributions, including just the markdown files.

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I’ve extended this to NRPNs and program changes, plus support for envelope controls, and multiple devices, and the ability to generate markdown from JSON so you can go both ways.

I am having some issues with groups, where the Electra One preset editor is messing up the JSON (and thus the layout), and I can’t see what I am doing wrong. Tracking this issue at Figure out layout issues for groups · Issue #2 · gramster/md2electraone · GitHub .

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