monome - arduino - axoloti > standalone setup
- external clokc sync
- demo arduino app
- multiple apps running in pages style selection mode
- Terms-polygome style app
- polygome withe gomeizer
- multiple scales for midi grid-keyboard
I've been trying numerous times to create a "no-laptop" setup for the monome:
- first using only a raspberry pi (during the 1st gen RPi days) but having numerous disconnect errors
- then trying to implement the monome serial protocol on an axoloti
- then using an arduino witrh serial port and some hacking
- even using a miniPC which felt too much like a laptop and had essentially the same drawbacks
Seeing the grid studies or arduino, I finally made the jump to the arduino DUE, with USB hist capabilities and fantastic MonomeHost library https://github.com/monome/MonomeHost I felt confident enough I could start making something that is good enough for live shows. It was fairly easy to combine this with a sparkfun arduino MIDI shield I had lying around (https://github.com/sparkfun/MIDI_Shield/), I was playing out MIDI (great intro on the MIDI protocol https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/midi-tutorial/all) from the monome sequencer within one hour of toying around. Now Just sending it to ableton will not solve a whole lot of problems, so to finish this of I'm looking to make a descent axoloti companion-patch
- monome (https://monome.org/) I have a walnut 128
- arduino DUE (https://store.arduino.cc/arduino-due)
- sparkfun midi shield (or brew your own) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12898
- axoloti (http://www.axoloti.com/) open-source DSP hardware
- OTG usb cable (for connecting the monome to the DUE)
- two midi cables (DIN5)
- simple sequencer from gridstudies (copy paste https://monome.org/docs/grid-studies/arduino/)
- external midi clock sets speed for sequencer!
- simple axo test patch (contains clock and monophonic sine synth)
- video demo