#1

Hey guys!

So, I like to use my monome (40h) as a simple midi device for composing within Ableton. However, having watched the Earthsea Introduction video, I see that it is programmed to key fourths vertically and semitones horizontally.

Is there anyway in which I can have this set up (vertical fourths, horizontal semitones) for composition via midi? I’m pretty new to coding software, so any advice would be great.

Thanks!

Learning Max through a dream of Earthsea (isomorphic M4L 128)
#2

Polygnome gives you basically all divisions of key either vertically or horozontily, then let’s you filter the notes through many different scales. All the while acting as a 8 (or 16) step sequencer/arpeggiator

#3

there are many apps that will allow you to use the monome as a composing surface. insanity will allow you to configure the grid in any way you like. monome base also has a very simple app to enter values for each button.
I don’t use it, but I believe stretta’s BEAP m4l modules are setup to do all of this and more from within ableton quite easily.

#4

Thanks for getting back to me so soon! I’ll have a look at each of these.

#5

give this app a try as well mate

http://monome.org/docs/app:mabalhabla

#6

Perfect! I love this patch: although, I wish I knew how to add new sets of scales, but the ones in there are very helpful as it is. Any idea how to do that?

I now have it automatically launch when I open Live, so that’s pretty sweet :smiley: