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I'm in the process of knocking up a MotorMix driver layer in Max for Live. I've spent a few hours on it so far, and I'm getting MIDI from it, have the LEDs lighting up and the faders moving. I threw a few Live knobs into the device and am now in the curious position of being able to turn the knobs on my RemoteSL and have the MM's faders move in response.

I'm trying to decide whether I want to port my monome sprite library to the MotorMix's central 8 x 4 block of LEDs. It wouldn't be difficult, since I have a working Ohm64 port already, but it might be a bit pointless.

Hi Nick,

do you use the motormix-object (from darwin grosse) to communicate with the motormix?

Curious 'bout what you're able to do with the motormix + max4live...

"I'm trying to decide whether I want to port my monome sprite library to the MotorMix's central 8 x 4 block of LEDs. It wouldn't be difficult, since I have a working Ohm64 port already, but it might be a bit pointless."

- Nice idea!
I don't own a monome or a Ohm64 so i'd love to use the motormix for this kind of stuff.

-hugo-
Belgium

huupsel wrote:do you use the motormix-object (from darwin grosse) to communicate with the motormix?

I've got Darwin's sources, and I think I have them compiled in Xcode, but all my control surface and monome stuff is in Python so I've been working on a Python layer for the Motor Mix. I am also going to do a simple monome emulator since I need that for another project...

Hello Nick,

Nice!

can you keep me up to date about this? Sounds interesting...

thanks,

-hugo-

Hi Nick,

I am wondering if you've made any progress on this.
I also have a MM and I would like to start using it with Live.
I guess I can just use the objects made by DG, but also curious about the py-layer in abez.

Where can I find information on utilizing python in Live?

Thanks,
jml

hi there,

still got my motormix, maybe a dump question but can I hope to use it with live 8 or is it better to sell it through ebay and buy a cheap launchpad?

I dont use it that fabulous unit from ages cause live forgot that unit ...

I now have a small pile of Python code for driving the Motor Mix - it sits inside MaxMSP using MXJ and Jython. I tend to use this standalone, since there's no clean way to put it inside Max for Live: the MIDI to and from the Motor Mix would interfere with the MIDI to and from the Max for Live Device. (I suppose it could be used to control Live via the API instead.) In any case, MfL doesn't support sysex so there'd be no way to drive the display.

Michael Chenetz has just done a Python device driver for the Ohm64, so a Motor Mix one shouldn't be too difficult.

Hello Cassiel,

so you wrote a little standalone application? Can you share it with us?

thanks!

-hugo-

If you can get as far as getting Jython working - see http://www.loadbang.net/space/Software/ ... ang.jython - then I can put together a package with the Python script and the Max patcher wrapper.

so there are two things to install:
- Jython
- MaxMSP

sounds a bit complicated isnt it?

I bought years ago a little midi soft (when I was on PC) that was allowing to use the motormix via virtual midi ports ... but that was not working 100%

Correct - although most of the people I know using unusual controllers have Max for Live already.

It's not as neat as a "native" Python device script in Live, I admit.