#1

In preparing for a live show I realized “I’m not using my monome in my set at all” which is unusual for me. To remedy this, I decided to use the monome as a visual element rather than a performance element. I ended up creating a quick Processing sketch that accepts Ableton MIDI and uses the notes to light up the LEDs of the Monome. In effect, I can “draw” the light sequences in MIDI and have them appear on the Monome.

You can see the MIDI drawing element here: https://goo.gl/photos/55arPjEpsx2zPVJD6

And here’s some video from the final performance: https://vimeo.com/219413987

That video doesn’t highlight it especially well, but throughout the performance i was able to create unique LED “scenes” for each song. My next idea is to blend using the Monome for performance and for visualization.

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#2

That’s really neat. I assume as it’s MIDI this is not proprietary to Ableton live, right?

#3

Thanks! I actually skipped a step in the explanation which is that I’m using a Max4Live device to convert the MIDI to OSC. Processing is receiving OSC, not MIDI. Happy to post the device & code. Should be able to do that soon.

#4

Ah, got it. Not for me then, as I’m not on Ableton anymore.
I’m sure a lot of people would enjoy the device/code, though. Thanks!

#5

holy shit! best monome thing i’ve seen in a long time! and the music was incredible too. thanks so much for posting this up. would absolutely love to play with the device at some point. really great idea!

#6

very nice @makingthenoise!
i would love to test it and mess around with ableton’s clip follow actions.

#7

Code is up here! https://github.com/adamribaudo/monome-scrolling-display

Heads up that I use Eclipse for Processing development, but it should run fine in the Processing IDE with just a few small changes.

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#8

The next logical step:

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