varibright mirrome

benjaminz · 2023-07-31T06:13:52.577Z

howdy! just got a 256 and was messing around with old software—mirrome is really fun but doesn’t support varibright grids. while this might render null some of the original charm, it seemed like a nice way to ease myself back into max. would anyone be able to set me off in the right direction for making this happen? i see that matrixctrl should support incremental states, and i assume that i should be able to map video to brightness levels 0-15 rather than 0-1… messed around for a while but couldn’t get anything working.

cheers!

okyeron · 2023-07-31T06:18:37.436Z

You might look at GitHub - monome/monome-max-package and the examples in the package - which you can get in the max package manager.

benjaminz · 2023-07-31T06:23:50.098Z

thanks, will look right now! i assume this would handle the varibright matrix situation, i’ll keep googling around for video processing.

Thhhh · 2023-07-31T12:44:23.551Z

The serialosc reference has been helpful for me, to decrypt the proper osc messages to use in Max.

I’d recommend /map, to have fewer writes to the grid per refresh.

I imagine jit.submatrix and jit.spill can also be useful.

okyeron · 2023-07-31T19:11:57.307Z

I spent an hour or so playing around with this as an exercise in learning more Max.

Using the patch monomedevicepooltest from here as a reference I modified mirrome to do varibright on a 256 - not sure this will work properly on a smaller grid as yet

_mirrome_1.1.x_vari256.maxpat (189.9 KB)