World’s First MIDI Shellcode Jan 2025 · 45 min read I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD. This blog post is about my journey with this reverse engineering project. Final iteration of Bad Apple The beginning I’ve had this Yamaha PSR-E433 synth for a very long time, and a couple of years ago I decided to open it up — partly because it w