Month: April 2010

MonoMIDI is a step sequencer to be controlled via the monome. It’s  based on manipulating Live MIDI clips, rather than using live.step or other means. So in my opinion, it fits the workflow better where one might use a keyboard next to a monome or an MPC.

Part of the code base was  taken from the Ableton Clip Step sequencer, thx for that. Unfortunately, the monome isn’t recognized as a control surface by Live which was one of the reasons for  developing it.

The features in a nutshell:

• support for MIDI clips with up to 64 steps (1 step = 1/16 note, which makes it 4 bars) and 49 drum pads (or 7 octaves when using scales)
• Full scale support including chromatic mapping and other custom scales
• Scale conversion
• advanced duplication facilities for partial note sequences
• multisample mode (device chooses out of 8 samples based on weighted probability)
• MIDI clip navigation mode
• extensive humanization options (velocity and timing randomisations)
• Adjustable note length
• Playhead visualisation
• works standalone and integrated into MonoLive

The detailed documentation can be found below, as well as the device.

enjoy, nick

Download

MonoMidi.amxd (v2)

monomidi_docu (v2)

As already announced some time ago, I didn’t particularly like the complexity of the MonoLive suite which would require at least one device per track to be controlled by the monome.

As a result, there is the next version of MonoLive which combines all track based functions in one single device while it still allows to plug-in additional devices which would require the whole monome real estate (such as MonoParaSteppa or MonoMIDI…stay tuned for that).

In addition, it enables the monome to act as a control surface allowing you to select any device within your live set and to control its first 8 parameters (hint: use racks to expose the parameters you like). and there is more, just have a look at the documentation link below.

have fun, nick

Downloads

MonoLive.amxd (v1.1)

monolive documentation (v1.1)