Saturday, September 15, 2007
monome 40h running fourths
YouTube via stretta.
"A demonstration of using the 40h as a simple alternate controller. The beauty of the 40h is it can be anything you want it to be - this is just one example."
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I have to say I have never seen anyone play the monome like that. I change my mind, you could definitely use some velocity sensitivity.
ReplyDeleteextremely cool
ReplyDeleteNice toe.
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of the 40h is it can be whatever you can imagine. I'm not lobbying for velocity simply so I can use it as an alternate pitch arrangement controller - that is only one application of many.
ReplyDeleteNo, I feel velocity fits beautifully into the existing aesthetic, providing another control vector. Instead of a 2D grid, you have a 3D grid. There are limitless applications for this.
For example, there is this cute bounce mode on the Tenori-On which I'd like to emulated. You drop a ball from some distance and every time it hits the 'bottom' a note is triggered. I'd like to incorporate physics so the bounces decay. Wouldn't it also be cool to be able to 'throw' the balls, using velocity?
There are just so many amazing things you could do with velocity - and it wouldn't interfere with the feel of the device or the operation of existing applications.
I feel like I'm listening to a professor. "the tyranny of the piano keyboard" ... oh the horror. Very cool though... lol.
ReplyDeletethats pretty cool, Ive changed my mind on the velocity debate, now how about aftertouch! or what if the buttons are more like the MPC where they have that middleground between aftertouch and velocity. That would be fun for pads too
ReplyDeleteAh, the isomorphic keyboard. We all get there eventually. :-)
ReplyDeleteStretta... try rotating your layout 90 degrees so that the chromatic intervals run to the right and the fourths run upwards. This retains the same advantage of transposition without changing your fingers' relative position, but I find that it makes it easier playing traditional scales by moving primarily from left to right without jumping back to the left. It's also the same layout as the fretboard of a bass guitar.
You can also try replacing the fourths with fifths, which gives you the layout of a violin (and a greater total range, since there's less overlapping). For real fun, don't use fourths or fifths, but rather diminished fifths (6 half steps), which are exactly half a chromatic octave -- that means that you can play octaves with aligned rows.
Is Matthew Davidson related to a Brent Davidson?
ReplyDeleteVery nice - makes me want one now.
ReplyDeleteI would love to go see a jazz set and, instead of a keyboard player, have a guy with a some rack gear and a monome.
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