Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Fascinated by Monome

I have no idea what this is even after reading Ernie's blog entry about it and reading Monome.org AND even reading the Wikipedia page.

But whatever it is, I am loving it.



Ultra Member from Mike Cohen on Vimeo.

2 comments:

ryptide said...

That's the beauty of it. You don't have to really know what it is because it can be whatever you want it to be.

Basically, though it is a controller that you can use for all sorts of things, not the least of which is intuitive and interactive controls for music. In the video you posted, the guy seems to have it set up to send note messages at a certain tempo for as long as he holds down the buttons. Then the rest act as normal keys.

SnareHanger said...

this is what i used

Press Cafe
written by Matthew Davidson stretta.com

A Real time rhythmic MIDI pattern performance patch.

In press cafe one axis of the monome represents discrete notes, and the other axis represents repeating sequences of that note. Press Cafe creates different pitched rhythmic patterns based on which button is pressed. The patterns are represented by animating the LEDs. Each pattern can be edited directly on the monome.