The Drum Buddy

Super-limited-edition drum gizmo - I love this thing - and the demo is too cool. I guess Laurie Anderson has one. I've thought of a similar concept but on a much larger scale, using different length rods rotating around a pole and IR triggers... anyways, check out the vids and an in-depth article at: matrixsynth. Be sure to stick out the video to the part where he brings in the scratchy record. Awesome.

Visit quintronandmisspussycat.com and freshkillsflagship.com for more info, images, & music.

Monome on Letterman

At the end he asks her what it is and and pokes at the buttons and she says it's her Twitter thing. Too bad she didn't give monome.org a plug, but hey it's totally featured so...

New v of Tony B Machine

It will make them boogie! Instadance-hall smackdown fun.

http://www.tony-b.org/

Stribe Duo with potentiometers, joystick

Curious Inventor made a cool custom Stribe1 "Duo" with some pots and a joystick.

More here: http://soundwidgets.com/smf/index.php?topic=266.msg1030#msg1030

Chladni Plate

Chladni Song by Meara O'Reilly, film by Lisa Foti-Straus

This phenomenon was known at least as far back as 1680. Ernst Chladni published his technique to demonstrate the phenomenon in 1787 (wikipedia: Ernst Chladni), using a bow against a piece of metal sprinkled with flour. Nowadays a speaker is placed under the plate to more accurately control the amplitude and pitch of the signal to be displayed. Which actual patterns appear are affected not only by the pitches and resonance, but also by how the plate is physically attached and (presumably) the location of the speaker.

Here's a good explanation: Chladni Plates

And here's how to build yer own, via Make magazine: http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol16/?pg=128

New Stribe Goodies from Curious Inventor

Double: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/292

Quad: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/293

Shield: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/290



Scott has been hard at work designing and making a simple system to connect multiple stribe kits together. The system includes a purpose-built shield that integrates a multiplexing circuit to use 12 sensors with the Arduino's 6 ADCs.

Curtis Roads and Granular Synthesis

Nice little vid series re: Curtis Roads and Granular Synthesis

'MOTHERBOARD - THE GRANULAR SYNTHESIS OF CURTIS ROADS'
from VBS.TV

My favorite part is where he compares granular synthesis to landscaping.

monomecontrol Max objects

A collection of abstractions created by James Drake in Max/MSP 5, used to build monome interfaces.

Discussion here: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=4478

Time to get working on some stribecontrol objects!

low cost multi-touch for music

Multitouch Prototype 2 from Randy Jones on Vimeo.

My brother sent me this video of an awesome DIY multi-touch controller for music applications. No blinky lights, but it appears to be true multi-touch, pressure-sensitive, and the method is very clever. Plus the music apps look pretty cool so far.

jesusizeme (Phineus)

Phineus music + Roger Fritz video = jesusizme

More cool stribe-age from machinecollective

Check out this sweeeet case for 2 stribe1s and 4 potentiometers...

More pics here from machinecollective



...some of machinecollective's other products, together with the dual stribe1 case.

Blue stribe1 kit pics and movies

A really nice Flickr set from machinecollective, demoing a stribe1 kit in progress built with custom blue LEDs.

Quasimidi Sirius User Manual pdf (English)

sirius_manual.pdf

Why am I posting this here?

Well, I recently acquired a rare and wonderful Quasimidi Sirius keyboard/workstation. Though the manufacturer (Quasimidi) has been defunct for many years, I figured I'd be able to find and download a manual for this quite sophisticated device. HOWEVER, the most-easily-found version of the download is a rough scan in a damaged PDF file that would not print on my printer. Very frustrating.

A good 2 hrs of web searching ultimately brought me here: http://www.quasimidisupport.de/html/downloads1.htm where lives a very nice pdf of the manual that prints-out crisp and clear. Yay!

I hope this information will be of use to other seekers.

monome 40h + 3 stribe1 modules = granular synthesis

Stribe1 Monome Sampler Scrubber from CuriousInventor on Vimeo.

Scott from curiousinventor has whipped-up this super-cool demo of a monome 40h working with 3 stribe1s. The devices are connected via software (Max/MSP). Links to the Max patch coming soon!

Finally, a reason to get an iPhone

TouchOSC is an iPhone / iPod Touch application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol.

The application allows you to remote control and receive feedback from software and hardware that implements the OSC protocol such as Pure Data and Max/MSP.

TouchOSC

Arduino audio projects

Just a few 'tube videos I found of Arduino music-making:

Auduino - The Arduino synthesiser
Arduino polyphonic synthesizer
Arduino drum machine
another Arduino drum machine
Arduino Sequencer

Plus check out this cool CDM article I just found that pretty much covers it: Making Music with the Arduino: Wires, Solder, and Sound Round-Up

Fabulous progress on Stribe1... Stribe8!

Stribe1 x 8 + new max/msp software demo from CuriousInventor on Vimeo.

Scott's been busy putting together a stribe1 x 8 and writing new firmware and patches. Also some promising experiments using 4051 chips to multiplex AD inputs on the Arduino. More info here

A new simple Stribe app from Thyeks

This video is from "Thyeks", who lives in the Carribean. Here's a link to his app if you want to mess with it: [link]

stribe1 demo

Using the app Scalar with a pair of Stribe1 prototypes:

The Stribe is Dead... Long Live the Stribe!

The original Stribe Prototype kit has been discontinued (oh no!), but a new modular kit is taking it's place: the single-strip Stribe1 (yay!).

The Stribe1 kit (also available assembled) gives you everything you need to build a "single stribe" touch-control module, minus the microcontroller.



Multiple Stribe1s can be chained together with a ribbon connector and attached to the microcontroller of your choice.



For now we have building-block firmware and patches for the ATMEGA-based Arduino and Arduino MINI. Bitwacker (PIC) firmware is in the works.

The kit consists of a long and narrow PCB (~ 9 3/4" x 7/8"), a single 170mm touchstrip, 2 columns of 64 LEDs (128 LEDs total), and all the supporting circuitry, driver chips, ribbon connector, plexiglas enclosure, etc.



The instructions include step-by-step details on placing and soldering the parts, wiring it to an Arduino, and using the software.*

I think it would be fairly straightforward to hook one (or more) of these up to a monome 40h, but I'll defer the details to those who know the monome's internals better than I do. (Note: due to MUCH interest in this idea, I'll be trying this soon with my own 40h and will post my results)

The Stribe1 project was made possible with the generous involvement of Scott Driscoll of Curious Inventor (curiousinventor.com). He was kind enough to put my name on the project (and circuit board) even though he actually did most of the work.

Get yours here: http://curiousinventor.com/kits/stribe

* Note: assembly instructions are done, but we still haven't posted firmware, patches and Arduino wiring... Soon!