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Re: Music Grid

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Post by roland35 »

maxlaumeister wrote: post #60
roland35 wrote: post #43

Thank you to the creator of this! I am actually working on a hardware version of a sound grid similar to this! I was inspired by a much older version of this which was written in Flash and doesn't work too well (there is also a 5 year old Android app [1]). It's awesome to have something which actually works on a modern phone. My idea for a sound block toy is similar but instead of having a grid it's a line of blocks…

> I was inspired by a much older version of this which was written in Flash and doesn't work too well If you're talking about Tone Matrix, I ported it to JavaScript to work on modern browsers and phones. Check it out if you're so inclined: https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/

Wonderful thank you! I have had a hard time finding a replacement and "time grid" wasn't a good search term!

Re: Music Grid

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Post by roland35 »

omnibrain wrote: post #58
roland35 wrote: post #43

Thank you to the creator of this! I am actually working on a hardware version of a sound grid similar to this! I was inspired by a much older version of this which was written in Flash and doesn't work too well (there is also a 5 year old Android app [1]). It's awesome to have something which actually works on a modern phone. My idea for a sound block toy is similar but instead of having a grid it's a line of blocks…

Something like the Polyend Seq sequencer or (if you want to include sound) the Synthstrom Audible Deluge?

No not quite like the polyend seq, each block is a note and is moveable so you can arrange them together in whatever sequence you want that way. The blocks communicate with infrared so they know what order they're in

Re: Music Grid

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aasasd wrote: post #87
mellowdream wrote: post #41

This design exists in the form of the more complex Yamaha Tenori-on, which was featured by Four Tet in There Is Love In You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20ukzn_rsw It's also expensive, now 500 USD on eBay - so it's nice to see a version of the product getting put together on the web :)

Which is where the design comes from. There are a bunch of software implementations, by the way. Sometimes they refer to the concept by ‘Tone Matrix’ instead.

P.S. (not really related): also til Tenori-On was originally promoted by Atom Heart aka Uwe Schmidt, a man of a hundred aliases and endeavors, with a particularly fun project Señor Coconut:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygv1CKzAk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoMNOids7k

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