this music is bad..check out little boots on youtube,she mkes awesome music using a tenorion and a stylophone …check it out;

ya know, circuit benders already hate me so I’m gonna go ahead and say it, these are GREAT, a prime example of what it takes to succeed in music: musical talent. And using the monome WHILE playing an instrument like the piano, DOUBLE KUDOS! This takes talent. Wonderful!

ok I’ve had my rant. go ahead and try to verbally bitch-slap me if ya want, IDK!

Indeed, everyone has their own taste, the only thing I might ‘slap’ you on myself aztraph:
‘Double-kudos’? I’m sure you meant triple, as you forgot they were using the monome, playing the piano, AND singing in either of the cases. Whether you like it or not it’s gotta be acknowledged… that takes a lot of talent to pull off.

@thebadwolf, little boots is better? I’m not a fan of either but I’d have to say that Imogen Heap is more pleasing to the ears.

Guess it’s time to put down the electric guitar and move on to the monome. Or just hack a monome into the guitar. who knows.

clark, that is a real cool idea, maybe redo the switches and lights to fit the contours of the guitar, I wonder if there would be any room left for strings afterward? might be a good combo.

aztraph,i’m glad to understand now^^

and if i could say…it’s a quadruple kudos;
-voice
-pianno
-Tenorion
-Stylophone

^^

Wow, Little Boots, fantastic! This is the first time I see monome in a non-bullshit context.. But wait, the girl can play and sing and does it fantastically great, what monome has to do with that? Nothing probably.

Maybe I’m missing the point but what is all of the fuss about a sequencer? This seems like a rather expensive open source project when you’ve got a computer that is more than capable of handling all of that right in front of you. To each their own though.

I’ve used Abox to fire my old VCO synths and I still have a handful of MIDI to VCO adapters from way back. I just don’t get this monome thing. Can someone explain to me how this machine is OMFGZ awesome? I feel like I’m missing out on a big inside joke or something…

tenori-on != monome
The Tenori-On is what lil’ boots uses, imogen uses a monome, btw.

The monome has no functionality built in, it’s just leds behind buttons (like a low-low-res multi-touch touchscreen)
All the step sequencers running on the monome are just apps people wrote, most of them open source.
A monome+computer setup can do everything a tenori-on does and many things more because it is, as a controller, not embedded in any context.
Running Tetris, home automation, step sequencer, sample cutters, video clip launchers or whatever on the monome is no ‘hack’ because the device never had a specific purpose to begin with.

Running anything but the 8 (i dont know) styles of operation that Yamaha implemented on the tenori-on however is quite difficult and would file under hack, it is not a controller, it’s an instrument.
You see, it’s apples and oranges.

And mind you, when it comes to music, it’s not about who did what first, it’s not about who is the most skilled or owns the most expensive gear, it’s about having the most fun listening and/or making music.

love
robb

you can built your own clone using an arduino without paying the monome-folks a single dime.
http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:ports:arduino

Also, note that the software (the firmware for the original 40h as well as the max patches written for the device) are open source, not the hardware. The monome people never claimed to make their hardware open source.