This is a VERY quick and dirty safari extension, all it does is include a single CSS file in your pages that contains 1 CSS definition that will hide any content that has the classname “waveform”. This rule will only occur if you are on a site that starts with the url http://soundcloud.com

Everything else is left as it was before, the progress bar, the loading bar, the comments, it’s just the waveform that gets hidden.

That’s all it does, but maybe it will make your life easier if you visit soundcloud a lot and you don’t like seeing the waveforms.

This is huge if you happen to have 1 or 2 like I do. I have the 1 that I stripped all the loop stuff out of, and I’m rehousing as an effects box almost.

But I still have one that is boxed and has been patiently waiting for me to be able to load my own custom 5 second long samples onto.

Marbs now has U-load for loading the samples onto the ucreate and LopGenerator for creating the specific 5 second long samples.

Uload is currently only windows and linux (I’m trying to find out if I can help with the Osx compiler. LopGenerator is available in all 3 flavors. They’re all up on Gitorious under GNU license.

Huge thank you from me to Marbs for spending the time to do this. I really look forward to seeing what comes of this first step.

thresh_hold_toggle.maxpat

I needed this functionality for one of my arduino midi projects that’s on my to do list, this was a quick 15 minute blast through. I’m sure the max isn’t awesome and probably very ugly, but it works.

I’m not going to go into much detail about what I want to do with the first app, but I’m excited by the idea and will hopefully either give it away for free with the next album, or give the next album away for free with the app. Not worked out which is easier.

I actually have a couple of ideas for Made By Robot iPhone apps, so I’m hoping that I can maybe do one for each release.

Having zero Objective-C experience I’m aware that this might be a painful transition from the day job of coding for the web, but maybe the challenge is what I need.

On a side point, I’m also planning a couple of hardware projects reaching finale this weekend, it all depends on the weather and how much time I spend at the beach with the family.


int signalPin = 8; //servo signal pin

Some useful reference sites, but be aware that neither of these I could get the code to work, but probably more my issue than the code:

http://principialabs.com/arduino-serial-servo-control/
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/AnalogIn

Next step, aiming low, I want to get a button in max that will trigger the servo movement:

http://www.cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=165203

Once I have that, I just need to replicate the action with the 6 other servos, work out how to attach hammers to them all, and then add some sort of step sequencer in max so I can have a 6 note analog drum kit.... that is until my xylophone arrives.

10 songs in the month of February, I’m 2 songs in with 3 days down, so I’m ahead of schedule.  The album will be called Binary, and is a mish mash of stuff (so far at least).

Ableton to Max to Arduino to SX-150

I’m working on finding a way to make my sx-150 a black box synth.  The aim is to end up with a box with only a phono out and usb in, no knobs, buttons, or input.  First step will be trying out Mrbooks arduino control setup for the sx-150, the second step will be using a few digital potemtiometers to allow the arduino to control, what used to be controlled by the rotary knobs.  Then all I’ll need is a little max patch with those controls and I’ll have a digitally controllable analog sythn, for less than $50.

Ableton Midi clock to Max to Arduino to Music Box

This ones a little more adventurous.  The aim is to get a punch card music box, with a motor controlling the turning of the handle, this motor would be variable speeds to match a midi clock from abelton.  The music box will use something like guitar pickups to get the sound back into the computer for tweaking.  This project is largely influenced by Mapmaps awesome music box setup – just with an additional twist.

Very quick tune I put together last night, whilst playing with SevenUp Live and Ableton. It’s the OOTB drum samples, 3 or 4 melodizer loops that have been processed greatly in ableton and a couple of my own loops and one from State Shirt in the MLR part of 7up (oh and an old bird sample I had in some library I downloaded). Great deal of it was improvised at the time of recording, hence it seems a bit disjointed. Consider this my very first piece of Monome music (hell you could say this is the first piece of Music I’ve ever recorded).

Those who are curious a Terza Rima is:

“a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three line rhyme scheme. It was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.”

wikipedia

I threw together a quick video showing my arduinome and my monome both plugged into Arduinome Serial, but pointing at two seperate applications, in this case flin and 64_slide. The audio is non existent and the camera shaky, but hopefully it answers some questions. It makes me wonder why there is an Arduinome Serial and why not just Monome Serial that can also talk to Arduinome’s?

Things like monogression with it’s simple progression and pattern learning games:

Monogressions (Pattern Progressions on a Monome) from Mike Cohen on Vimeo.

More traditional games like lights out or (blackout):

lights out on the monome 40h from joseph melnyk on Vimeo.

Throw in an accelerometer and you’ve got a whole new range of possibilities:

Tilty Snake from squidie on Vimeo.

Plug your arduino in, make sure it is recognized by Windows (this can be done on a windows machine, or as in my case in a Parallels VM). Once you know the hardware is being seen, fire up the Mprog you downloaded.

Click the Magnify Glass icon, to search for the arduino:

A sucessfull find will give you the feedback like the this (see bottom left text area):

Now click menu “Tools”, option “Read and Parse”, it will look like this:

Check the “Use Fixed Serial Number” check box:

Put in a serial with format of “a40h-xxx” where xxx is a number, most start with a40h-001, then do a40h-002, etc. But in theory you could put any 3 digit number in here:

Save it:

Once you’ve saved, click the lightning bolt, that flashes your arduino, close down this app, open up arduinomeserial and you’re arduino driven monome should appear in the drop down with the number you just gave it.