Hey folks, I am the creator of Kitspace and a while back I noticed a little blip in my analytics coming from @jasonw22 linking the site. Since then I have spent a bit of time here reading and understanding what this community is about and am still a little confused but also excited.
My own ideas in electronic music are also deeply rooted in a monome/grid fascination. One of the projects on Kitspace was me actually trying to make a cheaper grid controller without mechanical buttons. The NoMech:
While we have the hardware for that, nobody has ever gotten around the finishing the firmware for it so it’s stagnated a bit unfortunately (I’ll send hardware to any volunteers!). Personally I got too busy and bought a Launchpad when the second-hand ones were cheap enough. I never used it with Ableton but always wrote my own stuff for it like this step-sequencer:
I got a bit off-topic here but I think there is a lot of potential for using Kitspace in the DIY music gear space and am dying to hear people’s thoughts on how it could be used and improved. There are a lot of simpler oscillators and things that are being replicated through Kitspace. Quite a few of these came from a recent hack weekend in Zurich:
