The perfect tool for laptop-artists

May 5, 2006 on 12:40 pm by Thomas | In Music, Science |

Monome40hIf you ever tried to control Ableton Live and maybe some synth and effects with a mouse, you will know that there’s much to improve in terms of usabilty. Laptop-musicians dream of some hardware-controller solution that gives them buttons to trigger the sounds from their laptop, like samples, arrangements, effects and so on.

Now here is one fascination toy: Monome40h. It consists of 8×8 touchpads that are programmable via an open-source controlling routine which turns them into keys, radio groupings, virtual sliders, etc., to communicate with ableton live, reason, cubase, logic and alike. To read more and watch a video

It’s not only flexible, it’s also very stylish and very handmade. The guys documented the whole manufacturing process. It’s 500$ and right now they cannot satisfy the overwhelming demand. In their forum they communicate directly with the people.

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  1. i feel you dreadfully active.
    that is merely superb, i am glad..

    were you aware that “consciousness and precaution is the name for cowardice?”
    i am delighted by Oscar Wilde.

    Comment by velvet — 5/5/2006 #

  2. RICHTIG JEIL DAS TEIL WA, ODA?

    Comment by nicolas — 5/5/2006 #

  3. Cooles Teil!

    Schöne Grüße zurück.

    Wie gehts?

    Comment by Alex — 7/5/2006 #

  4. I’ve been using Ableton for about 2 years now, I couldn’t live without it :D

    Comment by Music Production — 27/2/2007 #

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