At first, the monome was meant be a multipurpose artistic tool: a simple, 100 percent open source design with buttons and lights that could be programmed to to create any kind of art, from music to ...

In an ideal world someone would read this and send me a monome of my own to play with, but the button-encrusted control surfaces are in short supply (and not too cheap). Since controlling music isn't ...

While some producers hunker behind their laptops and ignore live instrumentation when performing, Daedelus, a.k.a. Alfred Darlington, fully immerses himself in live composition with the aid of a ...

Stop. Watch the video. Monome is an 8×8 grid of backlit buttons for music control. That’s pretty much it. The demo video does an awesome job showing some of the possibilities and I’m sure there will ...

The grid of musical buttons known as Monome will be updated to a new version that will feature a new button design, the innards of which are depicted to the right (the design of the first "40h" model ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: "The wonderful thing about this device is that is doesn't do ...

What do you do when you're sick of making music on your instruments? You hack them to play video games, apparently. YouTube user silverspaceship (real name Sean) worked up some code he calls monomAZe ...

Devices like Yamaha's Tenori-On or the monome are great, but their pricing is definitely out of the "casual treat" range and well into "serious investment". Stepping into the fray to sate your ...

If you asked [David Phipps] whether he prefers Monomes or traditional keyboards, he might ask you “why not have both?” We don’t presume to speak for him, but that’s what we think he’d say based on his ...

This may not look like a musical instrument, but it is—and a whole lot more. It’s a grid of 8×8 buttons that light up when pressed. A USB interface connects this thing to almost any sequencer or MIDI ...