Wow that's a wonderful demo. Especially like the drum stuff at the end.
Virtual monome for the iPhone. Yeah it seems so natural. You have the Wifi networking so it wouldn't even be that hard. It would be great for travelling.
celibacyclub
· 1 year ago
been playing with it,
i love it, its kinda like a music theory aware custom apregiator jam station for monome.
so damned FUN.. wow
stretta
· 1 year ago
Thanks. I'm really happy people are enjoying it. That is a good description. Polygomé was intended to be a quick diversion from gomé which I wonder if I'll ever finish now. Gomé has this idea where you you set points on the grid for a pattern to walk to over time, and there are four independent voices with their own MIDI destinations. The velocity and triggers and such loop independently so the accents shift as the patterns walk. There are also three MIDI CC sequencers that also loop independently. The idea was I'd route these controllers to my MIDI to control voltage interface to create subtle, shifting patterns.
Ugh. So much to do. I really need to finalize polygomé so I can make the 128 and 256 versions.
i dont know where you find the time for these things. im just so thankful that you do.
agargara
· 1 year ago
Those drums were crazy! If you don't mind sharing your trade secrets, could you briefly explain how you set that up? I'm thinking something like mapping the midi notes to something like Ableton Live's impulse but it looks more complex than just that...
stretta
· 1 year ago
About half way through the video I thought, "hey, I should also try sending this to a drum kit. That might be interesting." So, I called up Battery and flicked through about three preset kits looking for something interesting. I set polygomé into chromatic mode and started mashing buttons until I found a pattern that made sense. The key thing is having access to a ton of mappings across the keyboard. Impulse, while a fine plug in, isn't really well-suited for this application.
This also gave me an idea for a new application. With something like Battery, you can have access to, say, eight kick drums in a kit. It might be fun to make a drum sequencer with a built in probabilistic voice assigner. When a kick drum is triggered, 40% of the time it goes to this note, 20% of the time it goes to that note, and so on.
I've made probabilistic drum sequencers in the past (90% of the time a kick drum is triggered on the downbeat, etc...), not for the monome, but maybe I should, and couple it with the probabilistic note selection idea.
agargara
· 1 year ago
Oh, I see. Well, even if impulse doesn't work too well I was able to get a similar thing with an Instrument Rack in Live, mapping each note to a different simpler.
With an instrument rack, I bet you could also use Live's random midi plugin to set up something like probabilistic voice assigning...I might try this. Thanks for the inspiration and great app.
sighmon
· 1 year ago
beautiful demo thank you! such a waiting list for the monome, i think an iphone app would be wonderful to bring monome to the rest of us. :)
workhouse
· 1 year ago
maybe i am just dumb but how are you doing the drums/arp overdubs? ie how are you syncing them ? it sounds beautiful btw\
stretta
· 1 year ago
No, this is a good question. A better question might be, "Hey, where is the bass coming from?" I first laid down the drum track, using IAC beat clock sync, recording the output internally into my DAW. Then I overdubbed the electric piano part. After that, I played in the free form bass line from a normal MIDI controller.
As I was recording the performance with video as well, I didn't permit myself the liberty of multiple takes. I just took whatever the first take was. The larger problem was syncing the video up to the audio mix, which I did by eye in Adobe After Effects, just because I use it for all my video.
I think we're getting to the point where a monome ensemble would be viable, with everyone sharing a common clock source.
workhouse
· 1 year ago
ahh ok ,very well done indeed, didnt hear the bass as i have just watched it on my laptop a couple of times lol
the monome ensemble yes yes, we all hooked up to a network at the machineproject classes that brian hosted and were 'banging' each other via a wifi LAN , even got to doing to xy tone modulating that way , so i am sure one machine/server could be the ccs
workhouse
· 1 year ago
did a quick 3 overdubs and it syncs so sweetly.... http://tinyurl.com/5b9fv3 if ya wanna have a listen
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Virtual monome for the iPhone. Yeah it seems so natural. You have the Wifi networking so it wouldn't even be that hard. It would be great for travelling.
i love it, its kinda like a music theory aware custom apregiator jam station for monome.
so damned FUN.. wow
Ugh. So much to do. I really need to finalize polygomé so I can make the 128 and 256 versions.
This also gave me an idea for a new application. With something like Battery, you can have access to, say, eight kick drums in a kit. It might be fun to make a drum sequencer with a built in probabilistic voice assigner. When a kick drum is triggered, 40% of the time it goes to this note, 20% of the time it goes to that note, and so on.
I've made probabilistic drum sequencers in the past (90% of the time a kick drum is triggered on the downbeat, etc...), not for the monome, but maybe I should, and couple it with the probabilistic note selection idea.
With an instrument rack, I bet you could also use Live's random midi plugin to set up something like probabilistic voice assigning...I might try this. Thanks for the inspiration and great app.
such a waiting list for the monome, i think an iphone app would be wonderful to bring monome to the rest of us. :)
ie how are you syncing them ? it sounds beautiful btw\
As I was recording the performance with video as well, I didn't permit myself the liberty of multiple takes. I just took whatever the first take was. The larger problem was syncing the video up to the audio mix, which I did by eye in Adobe After Effects, just because I use it for all my video.
I think we're getting to the point where a monome ensemble would be viable, with everyone sharing a common clock source.
the monome ensemble yes yes, we all hooked up to a network at the machineproject classes that brian hosted and were 'banging' each other via a wifi LAN , even got to doing to xy tone modulating that way , so i am sure one machine/server could be the ccs
http://tinyurl.com/5b9fv3
if ya wanna have a listen