At the moment I’m just playing around and seeing what comes out of my Monome’s, Ableton, BCR2000 experiments.
Also available on last.fm ( Made By Robot – Nothing Bees )
And you can download all the MP3’s zipped up nicely.
Monome™ opened up sales of 128’s to the general public. Last week they finished off supplying the long standing waiting list. Brian said they had 70, and he was pretty confident given the economic climate and the fact that they were going on sale 2 weeks after Christmas that sales wouldn’t be brisk and availability would be there if people wanted on.
At 1.00pm EST the “buy it now” link was published.
Amazing demand. I think it’s a strong sign of the clear difference between the DIY monomes and the ones produced by Monome Inc. That even though you can build a Monome clone for less than $300 with almost no waiting time, people will still fight to the death for an $800 piece of equipment that does the exact same thing.
I’m one of those people. In fact I have an arduinome, a Monome Kit, and I still managed to scramble to pick up a legit 128 from the originators. I just had to have one. It never felt right using the other two.
I will continue to use the other two, one is going to my daughter, the other I will use as a secondary controller. My spare 40h kit, I’m selling back to the community at cost, just so someone has a chance to use it.
I can not wait to get my 128. It’s the best Christmas present I could have wished for. That’s Brian and Kelli !!!!
Having ditched the idea of making a Knobome and instead resigning myself to the possibility I’ll just have a Viewnome, I’ve now decided that I’m back in the hunt. But I’m simplifying things.
My plan now, due to the lack of space and the huge complexity that seemed to be coming from the previous discussion, is to build almost an “etcha-sketch” type of interface.
In my current state, I have two sets of 8 wires, that come from the IDC headers. I know that shorting any wire from 1 set with any wire on the other set will fire a button press in the Serial.
So my plan is simple.
I will attach 1 set of the 8 wires, to the 8 legs of an 8 position rotary switch. I will attach the other set of 8 wires to the legs of another 8 position rotary switch. I will then take the single out from the two switches and join them together at a momentary switch.
So using this little box, you will turn the two switches to the coordinates you want, and press the momentary button. That will trigger a button press at that coordinate.
Yes I know it’s simple. That’s really the aim. I can see this being useful for things where pressing lots of buttons isn’t the important thing and where change a row’s value at a time might be useful – like sliders or triggers.
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.”
Arduinome and Monome Together Two Applications from JP Sykes on Vimeo.
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?
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