How does a monome work?

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3 ай бұрын

monome.org sells monome devices. I am not affiliated with monome. I did not make the hardware. I use monome controllers with software I create to test ideas I have for real time music software interaction. My public work can be found at github.com/stretta
I made this video for my viewers to answer the common question: what is that thing and how does it work? I will make another video to answer the question: why I use the monome.

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@AaronLevitz 3 ай бұрын

This is a great explanation not just of monome devices, but of the broader movement that they inspired. It lays bare the practical considerations an aspiring developer needs to consider when evaluating a controller. Extremely valuable.

@moodypoodle6670 3 ай бұрын

Wow! That’s golden! Honestly, It would be awesome to create patreon education page about the entire monome devices.

@parkerfly81 3 ай бұрын

i love that you've been adding videos more regularly these days - please keep it up! (i've rewatched at least a few of these..!) =)

@stretta 3 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@KristofferLislegaard 3 ай бұрын

Very nice video! Still kinda hopåe the Arc will return one day.

@256k_ 3 ай бұрын

I've been a fan of your videos since the very early monome days. enjoyed every video you put out and this one is no exception. i would absolutely love more technical dives into monome programming

@turbotambourine 3 ай бұрын

I never realized the monome was this powerful! Makes sense why there is such wide use. Such an incredible and beautiful piece of hardware!

@Dubsteppah 3 ай бұрын

Wow I could watch and listen to this all day, even though it may be over my head, I still really enjoy this content.

@Thappaz 3 ай бұрын

I discovered your content first time some 13 ago and have always wondered this! Thanks for the explanation 🙏

@dansimco 3 ай бұрын

Especially appreciate the effort that must have gone into getting the leds to look good on camera

@pixelatedmushroom 2 ай бұрын

It looks like those things we had in middle school where you practice your multiplication tables. Upon pressing the key, it showed the answer through the transparent key.

@bobalobalee 3 ай бұрын

Finally, vocoder stretta.

@KristofferLislegaard 3 ай бұрын

I feel like my Monome Grids are more like a tacticle low resolution touch screen rather than drumpads. Love them!

@stretta 3 ай бұрын

The larger a grid gets, the more it moves to what you're describing.

@KristofferLislegaard 3 ай бұрын

@@stretta Yeah definitly, but even the 64 feels like a handfull of pixels 😊

@D4wn42 3 ай бұрын

looooooooove this format, so cool to get into the tools, and entertaining even if i don't plan on starting to use the tools myself

@AndreWmatic723 3 ай бұрын

Very very great great job!!!! I love it!

@IvanEngler 3 ай бұрын

highly appreciate this video!

@AaronBegley 3 ай бұрын

Very cool. Well done!

@stretta 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@MarkIreland_carrierband 3 ай бұрын

Please do a tutorial on monome and vcvrack

@emmabalarezo5166 3 ай бұрын

Arc is sick, I understand the usefulness of the messages. I dont quite understand the difference between a grid and for example a mapped akai launchpad to a mtrxctrl. Seems to me like they could do the same thing but maybe im missing something 😅. Ive always wanted to see the back end in max of what you do with the performance videos, for us that love to see your tricks while coding in max 🤭.

@stretta 3 ай бұрын

One major difference is devices like a launchpad use MIDI and only support the equivalent of led/set messages, so if you want to set the entire grid of a launchpad, you have to send 64 messages. Launchpads never go beyond a grid of 64 LEDs, while a single monome may have up to 256, and you can use multiple monome devices in parallel to create even larger aggregate grids. Finally, there would be no launchpad if the monome did not exist first.

@AaronLevitz 3 ай бұрын

@@stretta That first point is no longer true, nor as important as it once was. First generation Launchpads used the slowest possible variant on USB 1.0, so setting all 64 caused visible banding. Nowadays, it's more or less fast enough to visually keep up with the more efficient map messages. This was made with individual messages per LED, and I believe I was sending all 64 for every frame, at the time. (I try to only send messages where the value has changed, but there were no such optimizations in play): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZsWon658mrmmnWw.html ...and in the interest of preventing bottlenecks, there is a sysex command which sets RGB values for a whole swath of buttons. (I haven't switched techniques, because I'm apprehensive about maintaining and troubleshooting that block of code, and/or tired and lazy.) Likewise, while it's not fully contiguous, you *can* rotate four launchpads to form a makeshift 256, albeit with a strong delineation between quadrants which has an opinionated pull on functionality. One nice tradeoff, though, is that this arrangement also gives you 64 buttons outside of the grid, for "control rows" that don't consume valuable real estate inside of the grid. But then, the other cost is desk space -- you can hold and operate a monome 256 in your lap, but that's just not physically possible with four launchpads. Larger aggregate grids are technically possible (you can configure each unit with one of 16 USB endpoints), but that's even less contiguous, and having your "control rows" divide the grid is frankly bizarre. Anyway... Monome is indeed the original, and more thought has gone into painlessly managing these concerns. And it's hand-made with locally sourced materials, where the competition is mass produced from an ecologically disastrous amount of plastic. So, there's that.

@yaroslavkozatskyi9074 3 ай бұрын

inspiring 😮😮

@kimtae858 3 ай бұрын

When you stick to your guns long enough you have to explain yourself again to the newer generation that wasn't around during the Controllerism revolution.

@stretta 3 ай бұрын

Yeah. The thing that necessitated this video is a change to where my viewers are coming from. It used to be external referrers or subscriptions, but now people are finding my videos through internal youtube referrers and they are completely without context.