A few nice new things at Ruin and Wesen

via Ruin & Wesen
"Quite a lot has has happened lately at Ruin and Wesen, although we were pretty quiet about it. The first 100 minicommands have been shipped, another 100 is ready to go here in the lab (actually they just need to have the encoders soldered in), and the first monojoystick prototypes are ready. But most importantly, a lot of work has been done on the software framework that runs on the minicommand. This allows for some very relaxed controller programming, because despite the "easy" looks, at lot of things take place inside. The following list is just a short overview of the work that has been done:

* new MIDI sync (way tighter and allows for "transparent" clock merging: no latency, I use it with 3 minicommands queued one after the other)
* merging of MIDI on the second input (select which messages you want to merge: notes, ccs, sysex, clock, etc...)
* automatic recognition of machinedrum global settings and kit changes
* automatic recognition of monomachine settings and kit changes
* new monomachine firmwares
* generation and parsing of machinedrum and monomachine patterns
* a bunch of new machinedrum firmwares
* (preliminary) looper for machinedrum
* the whole framework can be used on MacOSX or Windows to write software interacting with MIDI and the Machinedrum
* and much more...

If you're a programmer and/or interested in the inner workings of the Minicommand, you can get the full sourcecode that we write at Ruin & Wesen, as well as the schematics for the minicommand..."

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