The L1V3 Box was designed to cater to both casual users and demanding professionals, offering an easy-to-use MIDI router with powerful capabilities. It allows users to craft intricate MIDI rules, with presets written in LUA, an easy-to-learn coding language. These presets are fully open-source, enabling the community to access, edit, improve, and customize them to fit their configurations. Creating new presets is straightforward with a comprehensive web editor accessible both online and locally.
With USB connectivity, the L1V3 Box’s firmware is editable live — no need to compile firmware or send SYSEX data for reconfiguration. Once unplugged from the computer, the box operates fully standalone.
The box can memorize, compute, recalculate, forward, block, and reroute any MIDI messages from its 10 inputs based on any conditions or data combinations. It enables advanced uses like sending multiple program changes with a single key press, adjusting multiple volumes with one knob, adding MPE capabilities to standard controllers, modifying fader response curves with math, and creating note scalers that adapt to melodies played by external sequencers.
To my knowledge, nothing like this exists on the market. While similar products, such as the Blokas MIDI Hub and the Retrokit cable RK-002, exist, none offer the same level of customization and ease of use. While the first offers a user friendly editor, sysex are not managed, the code of the blocks are closed and can’t be updated, and the second offers more latitude, but offers only 1 input, 1 output, and you have to compile your firmware each time you need to update it.
My box uniquely allows full editing of 10 inputs and 10 outputs via an instantaneous web MIDI editor, enabling anyone to create highly complex scenarios without needing to be a tech expert. Additionally, with full access to the open-source preset codes, users can freely customize and share their configurations.
The possibilities are endless, limited only by its user’s imagination.
