From a Bliptronic to a Bliptronome

The Bliptronic 5000 is a £59 synth/sequencer - interesting but limited. 4 hours later it's become a Monome clone that controls Ableton Live. The conversion kit comes from Wil Lindsay at:
http://www.straytechnologies.com
It's brilliant!
The Monome app is Edward Loveall's Arpshift.
Details on the monome site:
http://monome.org

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bliptronic
• bliptronome
• arduinome
• monome

[DjDoobz]

Wow, great video! I have a few questions though:

1- Could this work with a Korg monotron? (in a different way, could use the blip to control Monotron, or could it sere to sync the Monotron to an external sequencer?)

2- Is there a way to give those sounds some shuffle/swing? I mean, is it possible to not have the sounds quantized?

Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work (and sorry for spelling mistakes, english is not my native language)!

[johnscriven]

@DjDoobz

1 The bliptronome emulates a monome to control Ableton. A Monotron can't control monomes, or be controlled by them. A Monotron could be controlled by a CV gate but you'd need a separate interface.

2 Ableton 8 has a groove/swing function but this acts on pre-recorded loops. As the bliptronome acts in a similar way to a keyboard, I don't think you can change the tempo without recording the bliptronome first.

I'd be interested myself if anyone can suggest a way of doing this!

[zaadogg]

What ableton patch are you running to operate it?

[johnscriven]

The monome app Arpshift on the bliptronome creates patterns that drive Ableton. In Ableton I'm using Bells August (found in Live> Instruments> Instrument Rack> Mallets> Bells>). Arpshift creates patterns that remind me of bell ringing changes so that seemed appropriate - a gradually changing set of arpeggios. Steve Reich or Philip Glass-ish. 

[rhoggard76]

what software do you use with ableton so it sees the bliptronome midi messages? my blip works with max but i havn't seen how to make it work in ableton, CTRL M doesnt pick up the messages in live, thanks!

[chaffel3]

I was hoping this would come in a lot cheaper than the apc 20, but it's about the same.