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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:23 pm    Post subject: Monome Arc
Subject description: Continuous controller, 2 or 4 knobs
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Details here.

Basically, it's a wooden box with a USB connection and two or four (depending on model) big knobs, each surrounded by a ring of 64 orange LEDs. Each knob is an incremental rotary encoder; each LED can be lit independently with 16 intensity levels.

It speaks OSC (as does the original Monome). There is no built-in functionality beyond the minimum absolutely necessary: From time to time, each knob sends a message if its position has changed since the last such message, saying how much and in what direction. In addition, each knob can be pressed, sending paired press/release messages. You can send it an intensity for each LED in the surround. Beyond that, what happens is up to you.

OSC is a character-based protocol that can speak to any software capable of sending and receiving UDP. There is no particular requirement that the computer connected to the Arc be the same one that is running the application. Most people who write programs for Monome devices do so in MAX/MSP, but it is possible in other languages as well.

Ordering for the first production run begins Friday, February 18, and continues until the run (50 in each size) is sold out. The two-knob version is $500; the four-knob version is $800. Shipping is extra. If past experience is any guide, they will sell out quickly.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Wow! Classy stuff. Monome does it again!

Thanks for sharing.

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