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[Copiophonica]

Hey Stretta. I'm a fan. Wishing I was as skilled as you are with my Monome.

[WhatAxBrit]

for a starter to monome's, which model would you recommend?

[hideyourface]

This wouldn't work on the 64, much to my dismay. One day I'll own a 256!

[lytwielder]

1:00 Disneyland Star Tours. Your flight is ready.

[1pure0water0my0ass1]

i want a good monome app for the touch or ipad because i have an ipad and it would be easy to pu that many buttons on it as an app but i cant find any decent ones =(

[ubercoolmanna]

Have you ever listened to Brian Eno - Music for Airports? Your playing sounds alike.

[stretta]

@ubercoolmanna Music For Airports is a work of monumental importance. This is an insignificant youtube video. I think it would be impossible to escape eno's influence, directly or indirectly, in the field of ambient.

[ubercoolmanna]

I love ambient!! I want to create it so bad.

[RidgeRacerLord]

What sound did you use to make the really slow starting synth near the beginning of the song creation demo? It could make a really cool ambient track o-o

[MrAbadabas]

this guy seems to be one of the few people on youtube who actually know how to make actual music with a monome...most vids ive seen are guys just making annoying noises with them for 3 mins and calling it music.

[yourusernamehere2]

the music is beautiful! :]

[fbiagentstarling]

hello people, i dont have a footswitch is there a way to use this app anyway?

what does it mean "controller number to use as footswitch"

thank you take care

[HarlequinJitsu]

Thanks for pioneering this: I'm very interested to see what technology brings to the art of sound.

[CaptainErn]

so from all the demos i've seen i'm left with the impression that monomes can only be effectively used with live. would it be possible to use these applications with the monome in reaktor or some other sample/synth program other live?

[stretta]

@CaptainErn Monomes speak OpenSound Control, and can directly communicate to anything that can parse OSC, Reaktor included. Go to the monome forums for more information.

[skipmendler]

when the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake -- Plato

[jimeceb]

Plato actually said "When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them." Some guy along the way just paraphrased it.

[jangofet555]

the first 2 notes reminded me of brian eno, great melody man, but the las 2 notes(arpegio thing) didnt really sync with the rest, none the less, i really want one of those

[KaslarProductions]

this is everthing i wanted out of my kaossilator, but didn't get. sounds beautiful. 5/5

[mynmyself]

you really expected a kaossilator to do this?

do you really expected a kaoosilator to do something musically usefull? or at least creative?

[KaslarProductions]

The kaossilator still is musically useful. you can set it to any key or scale. it just doesn't compare to this

[mynmyself]

well, if it had at least a midi port it would be much better... i find it a fun toy to mess around for a while... but i would never use it for a serious proyect... is just a sound library with some interesting sounds... although, for synth sounds, better a real synth, so you can do what a synth is for: synthesizing sound in order to create new patches...

[KaslarProductions]

true thats why i also have kp3 (midi/sampling/FX) and analog modeling synths . My keyboards are always my primary instrument. kaoss adds flaver

[mynmyself]

yeah, i also use a KP (although is a KP2) for FX... they are great machines besides kaossilator...

[KaslarProductions]

indeed

[antonliar]

the best stuff ever seen..

[leonkennedy74]

I hate you because you have a French Connection.

[bryngOneOn]

blur song " you've taken the fun, out of everything" i mean "this is a demonstration of an application i wrote to realise a very specific....." oh come on its not science its music man, i'd love to see any lyrics you've written for ur specific demonstration of application

[kedah86]

wait... where u get the melody?

can u post the link about the melody?

if u know about that....

[loftyj]

such an amazing piece of equipment

[aeopmusic]

Are the monomes touch sensitive?

[cinchdanksoul]

no.

[tgwotr]

Monome controllers are over-priced wooden boxes topped with varied sized grids that can follow simple midi/osc codes... being touch sensitive (if even possible) would probably bump the price up another grand.

...they shouldn't cost more than $400USD, maximum.

[sacredgeometry]

they dont ...make one yourself

[eltotoX]

That's neither his point nor cost-effective. What he's saying is that it costs much less for THEM to make it than their retail price.

Although I realise that, for some people, building one can be tons of fun.

[sacredgeometry]

? they are a bespoke hand made osc controller they are in a market without competition and have huge overheads....they are not massly produced east asian plastic that you are probably used to....it costs money think of them like a leica camera....yes a nikon will do the same job but it juse isnt the same.

peace

brian

[celftitled4]

awesome! i have where abundance lies on my ipod- could you post some more live things like that? very inspiring

[georgemc25]

great video!

[felixpartz]

this is simply amazing. i've always wanted 2 know how stuff like this works. thx 4 the upload ^-^

[faunflynn]

Oh that's clever !

I did something similar back in the 80s with a couple of Zyklus MPS's and some software from York Uni. called midi grid. I programed the grids with mappings of fractals and then fed them back on each other. This was for some BBC programs on fractals that I did the music for..

I remember it got a big response.

This look much better, Far more controllable and usefull for composing.

Thanks for posting it !

[baxxterhp]

Absolutely awesome

[millsfreak]

Beautiful.....simply beautiful.....

[mativva]

nice carpet in the background!!

[revolutioner51]

clapp clapp clapp!! seriously man... talent! :D rock on!

[nakedsoul72]

what melody is that? :)

[nakedsoul72]

wow impressiv, nice melodie and so much buttons :-)

[machinate]

was that a kraftwerk reference I heard at 3:03? :D

[hbeezey]

Ok so, how did you get all these skills? Like how did you learn all your music and all the things that go with it. Mostly, how the hell can you afford all of these things

[stretta]

I've been obsessed about the subject for 25 years.

[theoya]

frickin awesome

[Captnuendo]

holy crap thats amazing

[soundwidgets]

um, wow

[spoony303]

Brilliant tutorial. Great composition and programming. Did you say that you personally wrote the software for this patch/performance? If so, how? Do you use MAX? Cheers & thanks again! -jc

[stretta]

The Max patches are available at the link in the description. Search for Strettas Monome Application Roundup.

[prttylghts]

the patch is so fresh... and the music is beautiful. pleased i am

[RhianS]

Fantastic stuff.