Raspberry Pi made into a sound engine synthesizer

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I don't know if this is possible but I would like to make a midi keyboard work on its own without the use of a PC...

Midi keyboards are nothing more than controllers that send data / button presses to a computer and don't produce sound on there own, so my idea is to turn a Raspberry Pi into a sound engine synthesizer that plugs into the midi keyboard which will then go to an audio amplifier and speakers and use the keyboard as a stand alone conventional keyboard without having to have a monitor and everything else plugged into it using nothing but the Pi and midi keyboard to produce the sound.

Would this be possible?
 
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Sounds like a reasonable and fun challenge :-D

The first one I think of is PiMiDi but I'm sure there are other software versions you can draw inspiration from, I'm sure you could put a DAC hat on the PI if you wanted a higher quality sounds from the device too.
 
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