Monome type controller toy
Monome type controller toy Posted on: 22.03.2010 by Lilliana Perris http://www.believegeek.com/electronics...truments/c4e1/If HAL 9000 mated with R2-D2 and their electronic offspring was tutored by Kraftwerk it would probably end up something like the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer. At once a minimalist musical plaything and a hardcore old-skool synthesizer, the Bliptronic defies categorization as it belts out 8-Bit style style tunes from its grid of glowing buttons. You'll notice sound similar to a retro Casiotone with an interface not unlike a simplified Yamaha TENORI-ON... if that makes any sense. Either way, once you start touching the keys of the Bliptronic you'll be hooked by it's simple pattern-based approach to music. | |
| Lilliana Perris 22.03.2010 |
Originally Posted by sarasin
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| Lilliana Perris 22.03.2010 | http://www.believegeek.com/electronics...truments/c4e1/ If HAL 9000 mated with R2-D2 and their electronic offspring was tutored by Kraftwerk it would probably end up something like the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer. At once a minimalist musical plaything and a hardcore old-skool synthesizer, the Bliptronic defies categorization as it belts out 8-Bit style style tunes from its grid of glowing buttons. You'll notice sound similar to a retro Casiotone with an interface not unlike a simplified Yamaha TENORI-ON... if that makes any sense. Either way, once you start touching the keys of the Bliptronic you'll be hooked by it's simple pattern-based approach to music. |
| Lindsay Bian 06.01.2011 | Yeah, Shipping things that big over the ocean is a rip. It takes me $16US to ship a little bag of parts and a cable! The kit comes with 4 nicer audio pots. (The original Bliptronic has some nasty clicky things that look like knobs, but are really switches) They can be used as ADC0-ADC3 in ArduinomeSerial. some patches like Polygome are ready to go with ADC settings. |
| Myriam Goulart 06.01.2011 | would consider building one of these if getting a bliptronic in the uk in the first place wasnt such a ball ache . would sit nicely next to my monome and arduinome ... do teh pots keep functionality ? |
| Lindsay Bian 05.01.2011 | Yep! Alive & well! ( I'm the guy who designed the board for it & porter the software.. ) Probably a hudred folks out there using them. I believe of it as a gateway monome. for <$150 built. ColemanT drop me a line if your having button problems.. They're usually a little " clicky" but not unresponsive, per say.. might be easily solved by dropping the board a few millimeters. |
| Random X 31.12.2010 | Bliptronic has been posted here ages ago... Did not believe that that was actually alive anylonger? |
| Tracy Roupp 31.12.2010 | I built a bliptronome. It is fun but REALLY software intensive and the response on the buttons in no good :/ Fun to do though and I learned to solder in the process, and 700 bucks cheaper than a monome! |
| Iola Obradovich 22.03.2010 | Yea, its ugly as hell but you are going to struggle to get that many buttons for twice the price! |
| Lilliana Perris 22.03.2010 | Sick!!! |
| Iola Obradovich 22.03.2010 | Kit for turning it into a monome available here: http://www.straytechnologies.com/bli...code-released/ |
| Lilliana Perris 22.03.2010 |
Originally Posted by sarasin
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