#30

i have a 40h still in kit form that could use a home… happy to sell it for less than 200.

#31

Hello everybody,

Since a long time I want to build my monome (an arduinome). I failed two years ago, but now I want to retry the experience.
My goal is to make a monome 256, I tried to find documentation on internet, but I found nothing very effective.
Could you propose me some pdf files to really understand what I need to buy? And how the arduinome will work exactly?
Thank you very much, and have a good day

Guillaume

#32

up? I’m still in research but nothing found…

#33

I am interested in a 128 to be used with ansible. I can afford an ansible, but not a 128, so, I´d like to know…
Is the arduinome (with the 3.3a firmware) compatible with ansible, meaning, no conflicts and varibright?
If not, is the monome kit found on github fully compatible? (same doubts)

The editions page is somewhat confusing about this last one.

Thanks.

#34

The “mk” kit (github version) is non-varibright. “grid kit” (current market.monome.org version) is varibright.

I do not believe arduinome 3.3a supports varibright. No idea if arduinome will work at all with monome eurorack.

#35

Thanks @jasonw22, but I don´t see a grid kit there.

#36

It’s sold out, unfortunately.

#37

Hi Guys

Im pretty certain I was about here in the good old days, i had a 40h and then a number of Livid instruments. Just recently I was gifted an arduinome, pics below, It was working when I got it, i then unplugged the cables as I wanted to fit in a nice new enclosure.

I ordered new ribbons and have plugged in, now I don’t get the start up sequence, the Arduinome is recognised in Max however no button presses are detected and the LED’s arent on, (sometimes they all come on). I havent done the crossed ribbon cables yet as at this point I would be happy with even a reversed nerdscroll.

The RX LED flashes when I run nerd scroll, the TX LED on the start fire board does nothing when I press, I am at my wits end here any help would be appreciated.

Cheers All.

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#39

Sounds like something is wrong with the new ribbon cables or the cable connections.

Can you test with the old cables? Was there a reason you replaced them? Are you sure the ribbon cables are all oriented correctly?

#40

Hi,
I have just ordered the components to built an arduinome that I would like to use as a sequencer for my eurorack synthesizer.
I was wondering if the Arduinome could work with this


or if it is possible to send CV directly from the arduino to the Modules.

Thanks to everyone for their time!

#41

Hi Okyeron, The old ribbon cables werent very well soldered and were too short for the new enclosure. I am pretty certain the cables are the right way round, after looking on here at some build threads.

I am a little worried removing the pots has caused a problem, Im going to desolder the ribbon headers this weekend and give it another go incase something has worked loose. Thanks again for your hel, will report back here.

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#42

I picked up a Bhoreal RGB Pro for only $100, thought it’d save me a bit of time and money, no assembly required and can send OSC over Wifi, so it seemed like a steal.

Anyway, I have no experience with Arduinome/Arduino, but have some basic programming experience, just not in Java haha…
I’ve been digging through documentation for this thing, but so far am having a bit of a hard time following it. I don’t think the firmware update wants to go through for some reason, and there are a lot of ‘errors’ showing up in the compiler.

This probably isn’t going to get a lot of useful responses, but just thought I’d post this here in case someone has experience with Bhoreal or with more recent Arduinome (I think running octinc? forgot where I stumbled across that while reading about Bhoreal) and can help.

In the mean time, I’ll just do more digging and try not to be a noob and find my own answers, but yeah any help would be more than appreciated.

Update:
My computer automatically tried to update 5 drivers for this thing, one of them doesn’t wanna go through though. Tried installing a driver included with documentation, though it only had one and I’m not sure if it worked or not.

Device shows up as “Arduino Leonardo” in Max and Pure Data. Runs well in a simple Pure Data sequencer, still having difficulties getting MIDI out from ‘Bhoreal_MAX_Router’ but it’s detecting MIDI input and I can change LED colors and toggle on/off.

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#43

Hello everyone! About a year ago I traded my old EWI USB for a Monome(?) 64. I had no launch pads or midi controllers at the time aside from a basic 49 key MIDI keyboard, and really wanted one. I’ve tried a good 7 or 8 times to get this thing integrated and working for me but I am always absolutely confused each time I attempt it, so here we go.

I suppose I can start with some basic info. I’m on MacOS Mojave 10.14, I primarily use Ableton and Pro Tools (I’m really curious about getting this to work in Ableton, so if Pro Tools has no support at all I couldn’t care less. Any use is better than it just sitting on my desk for another year). I have Ableton Live 10 Suite (Currently on 10.0.5 build 2018-10-18), Max 8.0.2, (but also I’m contacting their support cause it says I have a trial license and the academic key given to me when I purchased live 10 suite isn’t working ???), and Pro Tools 12.7.0 in the event this does work with Pro Tools.

My Computer is a 15 inch MacBook Pro 2017 model with a Radeon Pro 560 graphics card, 2.9 gHz i7, etc.

And the device I am trying to get to work is (to my new knowledge after getting the furthest I have in Max) an Arduinome.

And I am not a coder at all, I’m just a musician. Multi-Instrumentalist turned Producer/Engineer, so if you can break this all down for me like I’m a dunce I would appreciate it <3

Here are some photos and a gif. https://imgur.com/a/p4TXDsz
I loaded up the meadowphysics presentation (if I did that right?), and brought up an instance of serum. The instance of serum isn’t doing anything. I can’t even click on the keys to produce a sound. I have also tried other synths so I assume I just didn’t load this right in the first place anyways. The other thing I noticed is that no lights are coming on my device. The device does it’s little startup light show when it receives power and then goes dark. About 7 months ago I got it to show a light or two but I have no idea how. I opened something of like 27 things I downloaded to try and make it work in ableton and it worked as an instrument rack controlling some super complicated thing I didn’t understand at all and totally forget what it was. Point is, I assume it’s wired correctly. The previous owner said it worked great for him when we did the trade and there are no signs that it’s a physical issue, I just have no understanding of any of the software.

Ok, so here are my questions;

  • What is the difference between an arduinome and a monome. What do I have to do differently to get this thing working in Ableton and or Pro Tools
  • What would be the easiest process to making a template so this could more or less be plug and play in Ableton. Do I always have to have Max open outside of Ableton for it to open? What Max for Live device do I have to put on an instrument track for it to respond to anything?
  • Why doesn’t anything seem to respond or work at all in Max when I open up a maxpat from the Monome package I got from following this page: https://monome.org/docs/app/package/
  • Is there some super basic tutorial anywhere out there on the internet? This whole device and community seems super neat and dedicated, but I can’t find anything to make an easy entry into this world, and I would really appreciate any help so I can get started and not just use this as a paperweight.

Thank you so much for your time <3

Cheers,
Nick Katz

#44

The arduinome is a clone of a monome grid. Arduinome runs on a arduino microprocessor board.

“Monome” is actually the name of the company who makes grids and other devices, but many people call the grid device a “monome”

If you have a Monome 64, the forget about Arduinome - this does not apply to you.
(Mods may want to relocate this to another thread)

To get a monome grid working on MacOS, you will need to have SerialOSC installed. Testing for connectivity/functionality can be done with Max and one of the monome patches - Monome Home is a very good patch to see if your grid is connecting properly and to test it’s operating. Don’t worry about Ableton at all until you’ve got this part working.

if you’ve already installed SerialOSC and the grid is not connecting, you’ll want to read this thread: MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and serialosc

EDIT - and read other threads with the keywords “MacOS and serialosc”

#45

for what it’s worth, my thread doesn’t seem super relevant—typically problems have not actually been the fault of 10.14

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#46

Hi I am putting together a starfire monome project that was collecting dust for ages. Like I am in some sort of time machine here. I was wondering if anyone has the Eagle or .brd file for this so I can diagnose something? I went through the starfire blog and couldn’t find it, although I saw a screenshot of the eagle file on one post.

#48

Hi peeps,

It’s a long shot but while dusting around I found a lost project to make a grid controller based on the livid 64 button grid pcb with the rubber mat and the star gate logic board.

Is this Arduinome software to put in or was it something else.

I have two of these and want to make a 128 grid controller to use with my monome stuff.

All help is welcome.

On the other hand if it is not useful anymore and have to look at other stuff let me know.

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#49

Hi there! I’ve made an arduinome using Arduino Duemilanove and Unsped shield + 8x8 Bibo Board. This are my problems:

I solded the unsped shield and the bibo 8x8 board. I connected the ribbon cable to the pins and the leds light up, but not with the intensity they should. My Leds are orange and I think it’s about 20mA and 2V aproximately, so I soldered a 28K ohm resistor.

Another problem is that the buttons don’t work.

The final problem is that arduinome Serial recongnizes arduinome, but if I want to try it in Monome_test 5, I have to use SerialOsc and SerialOsc.maxpat. How can I use Arduinome Serial and Monome test. Is there any aplication that allows Arduinome Serial connect to max?

PD: I checked the position of the cables and the same, sometimes the Leds do not go (because of the orientation of the cable) but the others don’t iluminate as they should, and the buttons don’t work neither.

Expecting for answer!

#50

Maybe you can ask the guys who put together the arduinome project initially? After a Google, they’ve moved to http://flipmu.com/