evilscientress / obs-midi

Use MIDI devices to trigger events in OBS and visa versa

OBS-MIDI

Use MIDI devices to trigger events in OBS and visa versa.

Status -- WIP

Windows

macOS

Linux

Installing

1. Grab the zip from the OBS-Midi Releases Page

2. Copy the files in the zip to your obs plugins directory.

• By Default this is C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit

3. Launch OBS

• The Configuration is under Tools-> OBS Midi Settings

• Select your controller, hit configure, Toggle a button and fader, remap it to an action and hit save!

Currently runs on Windows and Linux, and is untested on MAC

Build instructions

In your obs-studio/plugins folder

1. git clone --recursive https://github.com/Alzy/obs-midi.git
2. Append to CMakeLists.txt

• add_subdirectory(obs-midi) Go back to your OBS Build directory

Windows

1. run cmake-gui.exe
2. click configure
3. click generate
4. click open project
5. In visual studio, right click on the obs-studio solution and click build

Linux

1. Rerun cmake using your normal options
2. rerun make -j4
3. rerun sudo make install / sudo checkinstall depending on which you normally use.

More info on building OBS from source

Special thanks to the following projects

• RTMidi17 An amazing modernized RTMIDI library
• OBSWebsocket from which much code was borrowed for interfacing with OBS
• Midi2OBS Where I got my start playing with this