monome 40h running fourths

[mmogen317]

forgive me if this as been asked before, but isn't this arrangement simply an eight string bass (or guitar without the half step change in the 5th and 6th string) rotated 90 degrees?

[mexicanpoptart17]

what's the name of that song at 1:30? I can't remember who composed it

[foreverwii]

Holy crap i used to have one of those little keyboard things!!!

whats it called!?? :P

thanks

[squiresuzuki]

Nice concept, you must have been thinking of a guitar when designing it. This is actually really cool because if you know all the intervals between strings on guitar, you'd be able to use this with ease.

[MegaBaellchen]

Is there any music related stuff a monome can't do?

[dazzerman]

Respect to you having a Casio VL Tone at the top of screen. I had one when I was young.

[faunflynn]

That's really cool.

[gtrgdss]

Thank you for explaining that. I am just getting into researching this instrument (monome) and have not found a lot of "noob" info on it. Appreciate your video! Thanks!

[rocknrollaa27]

hey man i liked this. good mix. check out my mix

[alexjnewbury]

cheers man...awesome app. i use it all the time! quick question...how did you hook up your sustain pedal to the patch?

Thanks!

[stretta]

@alexjnewbury For a sustain pedal, I simply used max to patch [ctlin 64] to [ctlout 64] and routed it to the same MIDI destination.

[clakkerclique]

hey stretta... is it possible to write this patch for the apc40...sounds quite good...

nice man!

[audibleobsession]

@clakkerclique Hey there, I know you posted your comment a while ago, but I thought I'd mention that I've done the same thing with my Launchpad and APC40! It just takes a while to map out all the pads to the required midi notes, but when you're all done, you're rocking! (I'll post a video soon of my Launchpad implementation).

[djspecialkay]

is this better than the launch pad

[arkoenig]

There have been a lot of comments, and I confess to not having read them all--but has it occurred to anyone that if you rotate this device 90 degrees clockwise, so that your fingers run along the chromatic rows, you have just reproduced the fretboard of a bass.

So all you bass players out there can use the same patterns on this layout as you would use to play bass lines...

[MrTBone1221]

@arkoenig Holy Crap!!! Your a Genious

[Intosia]

wow love the arp part, im downloading :)

[madmuso]

Nice idea!

[WARDISWARD]

fourths = 4 semitones inbetween each note ?

[stretta]

@WARDISWARD No, a fourth refers to the interval, not the number of semitones. A fourth = five semitones. A major seventh = 11 semitones, etc...

[VJFranzK]

This is a clever use of the monome and different than most.

Yes, it IS jazzy... But I never expected total jazz as begins after 2:15 ;-)

There is also a hexagon based keyboard out there that works something like this...

[BigBullBully]

I hate that im not a musician, always wanted to play the drums but the expense of a sound room and kit just kills me.

[VJFranzK]

then buy a digital drum pad, or VJ drums and use headphones! ;-)

That's why Depeche Mode said they originally became an electronic band... so they could practice at night

[SeanBuehler]

Is that a Lacie I see?

[osbamabinbiden]

very nice. enjoyed this. especially the stuff about transposing shapes.

[thrcman]

Hi Stretta.

Loving the demos, keep them coming.

Its sort of a silly question, but how would you rate a Monome 64 vs a 256? I realize the 256 provides more workspace, but cant the 64 be configured to basically have unlimited work space, giving you scroll? Im stuck between which one of the two i want to get.

Any answer will help.:)

[stretta]

The 64 monome has the broadest application support - most developers code for it first. Sometimes you'll find 256-only apps, but much of the time, interesting apps don't make use of the larger surface. You can, however, run helper apps that gang together four 64 apps onto one 256 surface. The 64 also has the tilt sensor. I suggest going for the 64, and work with it a while to see if you want to upgrade.

[thrcman]

Thanks heaps Stretta. That helped me tons with my decision and I couldnt have asked for a better answer. Cheers!

[tektek2012]

really cool, i want one

[dodgersandstorm]

what's that weird little keyboard on top of the effects pedals?

[stretta]

the little keyboard is a casio vl-1.

[dodgersandstorm]

cool, looks interesting.

nice job with the monome.

[energycore345]

i remember that on stephen malinowski's tapper discussion. thats so old :D

[xxxxNAKARxxxx]

muy guapo el arpeggio!!

[TibtheBear]

reminds me of moby

[RobotTickleFight]

needs moar vl tone

[Damien6ix]

Makes it hard to understand, at first glimpse, if this is a hardware or a software based usb/midi controler. If this is hardware and doesn´t need a software to operate sequences then it's brilliant...

[ultramyst]

This is a really nice idea, especially because I have kinda clunky fingers. I want to try it on a much smaller scale on an akai. . .

[theREALepso]

this is exactly the device i've been looking for...

[NeatStar]

That arpeggio was beautiful.

[splintercellcrash]

...Very interesting concept...

definately reinventive of how we play music

an awesome alternative for a real keyboard at times ;) very experimental yet practical!

nice

[Tayl0NP]

Hey! A Casio VL-1!! (I recently fell in love with the pt, sk, and mt series and my heart lit up when I saw this)

Regardless of what other cool instruments you have, this is very useful!

[ChocolateMilkIsTight]

so cool

[muppetshow76]

that was great Mat,is this instrument from japan?

[rhythmtandemplayer]

Great!

More great innovation at RHYTHMTANDEM.

[velomicro]

That was AWESOME!

I need to get a monome someday...

Is there much of a difference between the 40h and the 64h?

[stretta]

They're operationally-identical, except the 64 has a built-in tilt sensor. The keypads on the 64 are slightly smaller compared to the 40h.

[velomicro]

ah thanks! Nice Vl-1 by the way. They have a lovely sound.

[cjb028]

dudeeeee beautiful demo. thankyou

[sbhk1]

amazing!

[treyc1989]

very good demo! cool..! =)

[cradleofjohannes]

arepeggios are a lot of fun =)

p.s. so can i connect the 40h to my guitar and to my computer at the same time?

[ale0122]

nice shoes!

hehe just kidding =)

after see your video i'm thinking in a monome, leaving the tenori in a 2nd thought

[tomfusiouslovesyou]

wait so you can hook it up to synths?!?

[stretta]

That is the idea, yes.

[tomfusiouslovesyou]

so you can run it without using software or am i mistaken?

also what are you running it through? Can you use the casio vl tone through it?

sorry if my questions are ignorant. i'm just curious.

[stretta]

The monome requires a computer to operate.

I'm just using softsynths running on the computer.

The vl tone would need MIDI for it to work (monophonically, of course) Recently, someone introduced a mod that provides MIDI.

[tomfusiouslovesyou]

so even when using a midi synth or keyboard, you still need a computer to be running software?

thanks for the help by the way.

[faunflynn]

This is pretty cool.

I did some similar stuff with midi grid on the Atari 20 years ago ( yours is a much nicer interface.) It is useful as a compositional tool to escape the straight jacket of learned patterns.

[Plutoloco4]

coo

[hima7voltus]

i love jazz on it, awesome...

[ggoerl]

Im just learning music and Im trying to understand the fourths

at 0:24 is it a# d#2 g#2 c#3 f#3 b3 e4 a4??

[smoovebert]

i love it. love it.

[ellonche]

whoa didn't know you were a genius.. nice jazz chops...

[Nicken05]

really cool. but one thing came to my mind: playing guitar is just the same: tuned in fourths, and guitarists think in shapes. so actually for me (a guitarist) it would be really nice for playing piano stuff (which i'm not that good in).

[puxafrango666]

where i buy this?

[hubertcubeart]

excelent

[jeffthefishdotcom]

Sweet Lord I want a monome.

[onedotzero96]

ace!

[tottalyawesomerthanu]

Where can I get that?

[agrilledfish]

Nice. I had just been mapping specific scales to rows, but this idea allows for much more freedom.

[Plexiflim]

This is amazing!!!! I saw lots of videos of the monome, but this one just push things a lot further.....

[zstowasser]

I LOVE TECHNOLOGY!! This is awesome! thanks!!! :)

[chickennuggetmugger]

thank you so much!

[mrmeoff]

did you post your patch? or how did you make the patch? I just got my kit working!!

[stretta]

all patches can be found at stretta dot com

[outline4]

I love you man!

just wanted to programm somthing similar on my jazzmutant lemur. This is perfect! you are a hero to me!!

[Macavich69]

that's fresh...I need a monome.

[Crestiboy]

Sounds like swing to me!:-)

[soundwidgets]

This is similar to how I tuned this gesture controller - one axis is tuned to thirds and the other to fourths.

The app "Balron" at the monome website lets you play with a whole bunch of preset grid tunings or build yer own.

[ahlstrominfo]

Like this one alot. Gives me ideas :)

[15000000th]

What is the first song you are playing?

[stretta]

Everything is improv.

[15000000th]

Sounds like Vincent's theme song from FFVII.

[jkrtub]

Nice foot.

[ByteSmasher]

That kicks ass.

[cretin4321]

JazZ hanDs!

[stretta]

lol