Using Linnstrument as a Grid?

[eyeiaye]

Hello, I am thinking of getting into Max MSP.

The Monome Grid seems AMAZING
The Linnstrument seems equally amazing.

This all said, is there a way to use the Linnstrument as a monome grid with all the functionality. It seems as if there is HUGE overlap. Would be working in MAX — and in the future Live

Thanks kindly.

[Fedor]

Linnstrument 128 is an expressive controller first and foremost, and its great at that. So far I’ve find that using attempting to use it as a Grid would be complicated and not worth the hassle.

[eyeiaye]

Im just thinking about the possibility to switch it up and save money lol

[jasonw22]

The grid uses serialosc to communicate. Linnstrument uses MIDI.

[eyeiaye]

Ahhh crap! Well was a good thought

[jasonw22]

Here is a longer thread on the topic

Using Linnstrument as a Grid?

Has anyone around here tried getting grid apps to run nicely using a Linnstrument? Obviously it’d be a great paring down of the Linnstruments capabilities in terms of expression, but the thought of using mlr or block party on 8x16 of the Linnstrument, and using the rest of its grid for various controls seems intriguing to me. Especially when thinking about how something like mlr or block party could be modified to handle the variable pressure and interpolated position changes (adding features …