Monome Beginner Questions

csboling · 2019-07-18T14:20:46.565Z

Some discussion here. A data transfer cable will have a big ol’ Mysterious Nodule in the middle containing some circuitry for letting two USB hosts talk to each other without letting them both try to supply power to each other. But you want a plain ol’ USB A/A cable without this circuit.

tehn · 2019-07-18T14:20:52.550Z

ansibles all ship with the USB A-A cable.

there is an ordering part number and link on the update page: https://monome.org/docs/modular/update/

tehn · 2019-07-18T14:22:10.749Z

midi is not related.

open a terminal and type

ls /dev/tty.usb*

and paste the output here. also, post a photo of the monome unit as i’d like to ensure it’s actually a 40h.

Aleksander_Raczynski · 2019-07-18T14:51:10.941Z

tehn:

ls /dev/tty.usb*

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thaNKS FOR YOUR HELP

tehn · 2019-07-18T14:54:55.011Z

ok, the problem is (i think) the serial number. it shouldn’t have an underscore— i don’t recall the symptom. can you take a photo of the grid?

my suggestion is to download this: http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2010/01/27/pirate-rename-get-a-nicely-named-serial-device/

you’ll need to turn off the apple driver first:

sudo kextunload -bundle-id com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI

then “read” the usb data. change the underscore to a zero.

then turn the driver back on:

sudo kextload -bundle-id com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI

and maybe reboot

Aleksander_Raczynski · 2019-07-18T20:47:36.821Z

it WORKS!!!
thanks then!!
greetings

Gexex · 2019-07-18T22:09:09.023Z

Really silly question:
Ansible- red stripe up?

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morgulbee · 2019-07-18T23:01:57.323Z

Yes that’s correct. I had the same question when I installed my Ansible a week or so ago. The keyed connector only goes one way.

accountboy · 2019-07-29T21:17:38.770Z

tehn:

ls /dev/tty.usb*

Ableton Live having an on and off relationship with my grid. Often have just “none” in the device list for Terms or Mark Eats Clips.

Anything I might improve?

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tehn · 2019-07-29T21:30:50.430Z

sounds like serialosc.maxpat isn’t doing a great job communicating with serialosc. what OS version are you on?

accountboy · 2019-07-29T21:33:32.981Z

10.14.5

Browsing the above I just installed FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_4_2 seconds ago

headphonic · 2019-08-01T17:49:16.803Z

Hello all,

recently i was gifted an old grids64. Ive decided to start from the “beginning” and got mlr up and running on max 8. I can get it to run and make noise, and have dug through all the links, but i cant for the life of me figure out how to actually “play” mlr on a 64.

beyond trigger samples in various groups and getting them to change direction im at a loss. Ive read the readmes, and the grids docs page. Can anyone get me on the path?

also, should i even bother with mlr, or is mlrv better?

sunbeamer · 2019-08-01T17:56:45.538Z

There’s a post here that shows how MLR is laid out on a 64 grid, with a corresponding mlr64 script. Hopefully that’s helpful?

noiserock · 2019-08-01T18:00:15.206Z

I want to point out that mlr on the norns has alot of differences to the max version of mlr. (and its been awhile since I used max mlr)

headphonic · 2019-08-01T18:10:49.689Z

super helpful, thanks.

so on this page it says"MODE changes the lower section of the grid, described below." which I assume means one button is a Mode change function. Yet i dont see that labeled anywhere.

@noiserock i cant afford a norns these days, but hope to maybe build a rPi version if I can ever get that figured out.

sunbeamer · 2019-08-01T18:22:29.648Z

The top leftmost three buttons for play/rec, cut, and clip are all modes as far as navigation is concerned. Try using that mlr64.lua script instead of the standard one.

Edit to change wording after re-reading to realize you’re not using Norns

zebra · 2019-08-01T18:26:15.184Z

fwiw, norns stack also works fine on linux, and mostly fine on macOS. some changes to make this setup more usable are in the pipeline.

headphonic · 2019-08-01T18:33:32.974Z

heh, thanks. But how does one run the lua script version without norns?

ok im realizing controlling the old version of mlr is actually pretty darned different from the norns one, which is why i was confused.

noiserock · 2019-08-01T19:08:15.923Z

If you have Live with MaxforLive I would highly recommend re:mix. That was my “mlr of choice” until I started using norns mlr.

If not, please share what version of mlr you are using here, and I’ll try to make you a beginners guide

headphonic · 2019-08-01T19:14:33.608Z

I dont have live, but hope to get it soon.

i am using what i assume to be the original MLR, which is fine for noodling around. This video shows the functionality, which is what ive been working with.