THE ILLUMINATED TRIGGER OF TRIGGERS!!!

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:37 am

PREPARE TO SALIVATE LIVE MONKEYS!

http://monome.org/index.php?m=01

Here it is in action!
http://146.186.186.101/~bcrabtree/monome40h.mov

$500 for 64 pads.

Later

ABZurd

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:07 am

they're already all over it

zfigz · Post by **zfigz** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:30 am

I'd be all over it . . . especially if they include presets etc so that I can figure out how I'll put it to use.

Either way, it looks friggin' see, especially when you see it in action. Still though, I want to see how easy it is to program and how the lights interact with the buttons etc etc....

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:03 am

Hey longjohns.

Are you sugesting that I need to get a late pass?

ABZurd

Phokus · Post by **Phokus** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:29 am

wow, thats pretty cool how well that guy uses all the triggers. He's like the Jimmy Hendrix of computer geeks. Like whoa man, look at dude shred, next thing you know he's gonna throw some butane on it and smash it against his screen in a fit of rage.

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:04 am

thats insane

divi · Post by **divi** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:07 pm

cool!

won't be of much advantage over standard midi controllers in Live though (except for having a LOT of trigger buttons). to make full use of it your software has to send meaningful midi or osc messages back to the device. that's not going to happen with Live (unless Ableton adds user scripting, like suggested in another thread). in the video they're using Max/MSP which is perfect for that kind of stuff.

(ps: i'm sure you could also make a great hardware tetris game of it

)

3phase · Post by **3phase** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:41 pm

wouldnt it be a better investion in time to learn how to play the piano?

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:09 pm

3phase wrote:wouldnt it be a better investion in time to learn how to play the piano?

shhh, that would require actual musical talent.

ryansupak · Post by **ryansupak** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:20 pm

Snowtires:

Can you explain why playing a traditional instrument requires musical talent, while playing a newly-devised one does not?

Curious,
rs

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:37 pm

abz, its cool

someone just started another thread on this movie yesterday

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:36 pm

ryansupak wrote:Snowtires:

Can you explain why playing a traditional instrument requires musical talent, while playing a newly-devised one does not?

Curious,
rs

there's more to learning and playing a traditional instrument than there is to picking up a fancy board of lights and pressing buttons. these kinds of things are primarily for people who don't know how to play an instrument, but still think they should be a musician.

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:48 pm

And there's more to being a musician that being able to play a "traditional instrument"! I've been composing for 20 years (not always well

) but I'm still not a great instrumentalist. Just not co-ordinated enough, I reckon. I don't think that means that I'm not a "musician".

HD1 · Post by **HD1** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:13 pm

i think what snowtires means is that it does indeed take more PHYSICAL (dexterity) talent to play most traditional acoustic instruments. No quantization, no loops, you have to finger every single note and chord on time. OF COURSE IT TAKES MORE TALENT. and I agree with him. ... this idea is not exclusively the only way to be a talented musician, as we ALL know. ...you can program your synth sequencer sampler etc etc and compose amazing music, which is obviously talent too. lets not turn this into a computer-musician-feeling-insecure-about-his-or-her-own-talent-so-he-engages-in-some-trivial-semantical-debate-on-the-merits-of-musical-talent-when-someone-suggests-it-takes-more-talent-to-play-a-piano
k?
k!

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:18 pm

RopeyPunter wrote:i think what snowtires means is that it does indeed take more PHYSICAL (dexterity) talent to play most traditional acoustic instruments. No quantization, no loops, you have to finger every single note and chord on time. OF COURSE IT TAKES MORE TALENT. and I agree with him. ... this idea is not exclusively the only way to be a talented musician, as we ALL know. ...you can program your synth sequencer sampler etc etc and compose amazing music, which is obviously talent too. lets not turn this into a computer-musician-feeling-insecure-about-his-or-her-own-talent-so-he-engages-in-some-trivial-semantical-debate-on-the-merits-of-musical-talent-when-someone-suggests-it-takes-more-talent-to-play-a-piano
k?
k!

eeeeexactly.