The monome is such a fascinating device. It does nothing by itself. I can send a message to light up an LED, and I can receive a message from a button or encoder. I look at the device and imagine what kinds of musical interactions are possible. So I try out my ideas and share them, including the code. I've been doing this since 2006. Lately, my videos are pulling visitors from unrelated content, and they see a single video out of context, and reflexively post comments that are simultaneously smug and ignorant or sometimes abusive. At that point, I have to ask why am I doing this to receive abuse? I'm not making money from youtube, I get nothing from this. People also conflate monome (the hardware) with my work (the software) and it isn't clear if they're passing judgment on one or both. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to explore a bit more and for your honesty. I'm not anywhere close to running out of ideas, but it might be easier if I keep them to myself.

man! your work is truly hypnotizing. I could totally see you jamming with four tet. your instrument is really something else, it feels so human - and this example is just beautiful. fuck the haters.... also i could see this kind of content work well in shorts or on tiktok. it ticks all the boxes. i'll subscribe and share, maybe one day this will bring in a cent or two- @@stretta

​@@strettasadly the music community is pretty toxic and has, in a lot of ways, been built on elitism and exclusion ever since times long past. It sucks, but I think that's all the more reason to put your foot down and share your creativity with the world anyways, because there *is* value in it and anyone who's opinion is worth listening to will appreciate you sharing your art with the world!

​@@strettaPlease don't stop doing this.

Each 'string' has a decay time based on the current note duration. When a note is triggered, this time value is fed to an associated line object, and fills a matrix. The matrix is updated to the monome with a grid message every 30ms.

@@stretta very cool! I ended up doing something similar with async events in js to build the matrix

Looks like a Monome (the grid thing) and an Arc (the knobs) put togther to create a strummy arpeggiator The knob on the right cycles through the notes of a chord when it's turned, and the bottom half of the Monome is used to decide what chord to play

Thanks for answering! I'll have a look into that... Anyway, this is not only an awesome demo, but beautiful music played skillfully

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-BifpCH0sC4Zps.html

Thanks for that in-depth explanation.

Resembles the Harpjji ❤

It is called 'Strum' and it is part of the gridlab package on my github. If you search for 'gridlab strum' you should be able to locate it.

Спасибо

Hello, I have an explainer video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-BifpCH0sC4Zps.html

@Walter B Of course. Here, walruses prefer bureks.