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Blummin' ace, and the wood smells lovely. This is it running dj64, a genius mixing app. Not that I'll have time to play with it...

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Posted February 7, 2009
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I love tracking parcels

As if wasn't exciting enough, I get to view the progress of my Monome over the Atlantic via UPS. Hooray for the bleedin' internet, god I love it.
 
I imagine it's being prodded at East Midlands Airport by customs who are busily trying to work out what the possible killing range is.

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Posted January 28, 2009
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Don't watch this video if you're tempted to buy a Monome

One view of this and I went straight to the Monome site, angling to see if I could get on their waiting list - thankfully they've sold out for now. 

I love seeing what people are doing with the Monome as a canvas for developing simple interfaces to laptop-based sequencers, although writing this stuff for me would be too much plumbing when I'd just want to get on with it. The open nature of the Monome seems to give it a definite edge over the much fêted Tenori-on - although that still much has potential, check Jordan Rudess triggering external gear with his. 

The Sixty-Four is the smallest Monome, but with the way that SevenUp's creator has it set up with the row of buttons dedicated to paging between button sets, it's not so much of a restriction. Although you could go mad and sign-up for a 256, when they next become available - here's Daedelus with his:

Filed under  //   controller   monome   music   production   tenori-on   video  
Posted October 21, 2008
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