Like a kid in a (monome) sweet shop…
With my monome 64 due to arrive imminently I’ve been browsing the monome website for sparkly things I particularly like the look of…
Starting with Ableton Live…
1. drumwreck by anton hornquist – website & youtube demo
monome step sequencer in maxmsp/live
Early days for this app… which seems both intuitive and ergonomic… and even works using the ‘monome40_fake’ patch. Latest developments on its monome discussion thread.
2. monogrid 2.1 by ahlstrominfo – myspace website
Ableton Live integration via Chuck (Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Audio Programming Language) – using the graphical front-end miniAudicle
Initially this seemed quite complicated to set up… but turned out just to be detailed – and amazingly it worked with the ‘monome40_fake’ patch too!
I followed the tutorial part 1 to set up Chuck and Live on OS X…
then the tutorial part 2 to put audio loops into Live…
There’s more details of functionality in the ahlstrom.info documentation.
But i soon got sidetracked…
3. the Chuck coded tiltmmap.ck – video
I’ve got a thing about accelerometers 
a large virtual bitmap. hit the keypads to toggle the state, tilt the unit to scroll through the map. wraps at edges, total bitmap is 32×32. lo-fi blips triggered on scrolling depending on density of the frame.
4. ATASCII on the monome by revbean – website
Demo of a Max/MSP patch that displays the old Atari ASCII 8-bit character set on the monome 40h. The characters can be scrolled through via the SpaceNavigator, chosen with mouse clicks, or entered with the keyboard as preset messages or live typing.
