Reaktor test
Have been trying to set up the 40h to talk to Reaktor via OSC. So far, i have managed to get Reaktor to receive events from the 40h. Problem is, getting reaktor to set the LED’s on the 40h seems to be a problem.
This is a screenshot of my Reaktor OSC setup (and serialIO setup). Through the reaktor OSC settings, I can send and receive OSC data with the 40h. Like I say, incoming data from the 40h is fine, but sending OSC packets to the 40h is flakey.
i can send the “test” OSC message to the 40h and that works ok. but any “led” based messages are ignored.
I guess the best way to work this out is to post my test files… so here we go:
This is a reaktor patch that takes input from the 40h and routes it to the screen. More importantly, it also sends data to the 40h. The XY field sends ‘led’ messages, and the other buttons do what they say (set the Test and low-power modes).
At the moment, the test button works ok, but the XY grid is not working. For some reason, the 40h accepts the ‘box/test’ packet, but not ‘box/led’.
So thats about it for the mo. any help is gratefully received.
Arrival.
It is here! My friend lou bought it over from LA, thus a bit of a wait, but worth it. below is the startup state which is the numbers 1-8, represented in binary.
So it’s onto actually doing something with this thing.
Flash <-> 40h
Just found Flosc which is a Flash – OSC bridge, written in Java. Should be interesting to see what the 40h and flash can do together..
mlr up and running
finally got mlr, the main max patch used for the 40h so far, up and running (after a bit of fiddling around). Here’s the interface. just need something to plug into it now…
The general idea is to take mlr as a starting point and make something similar in reaktor, partly because i don’t have a copy of max, and also to take advantage of the great stuff that has been produced with reaktor.
Startpoint
I guess it’s best to start with a few questions answered.
What is this site?
This blog is a record of my work with the Monome 40h. I first found out about the monome (or ‘the box’) on a Future Music DVD, talking about the controller that daedelus was using in his live shows. Like alot of people I still think electronic music has a long way to go in terms of live performance. The “bloke checking his email behind a screen” approach has never been much kop, and this seemed to add something to the mix. When the guys at monome said they were producing units for sale I decided to get hold of one.
It’s also a good opportunity to try out TextPattern, the CMS behind this site.
What is the 40h?
The 20h is the first model to be produced by monome. Pretty simply put, it’s a box with 64 backlit buttons on it, arranged in 8 rows of 8. That’s about it, and the idea is that you can use it pretty much any way you like. There is already a selection of Max/MSP patches that the monome people have produced, but it’s kind of down to the owner to see where they will take it.