#5

Man that would be so awesome! Monome + Organelle!

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#6

I’m going to take a look at this. I have a 128 GrayScale and an Organelle and I’m really interested in getting them to talk to eachother!

#7

Cool! Let me know if you run into any trouble. Likely between yourself, myself and the rest of the llllllll.co/monome.org crew, we can sort it out.

#8

Ok so I’ve got both libmonome and serialosc installed successfully, but still haven’t been able to connect over serial.

According to the monome linux docs:

You’ll also need to have the usbserial and ftdi_sio kernel modules loaded before connecting your monome."

After running lsmod, I see that usbserial isn’t there

arc4                   12695  2
rt2800usb              27448  0
rt2x00usb              21204  1 rt2800usb
rt2800lib              80945  1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib              52781  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
mac80211              332692  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
cfg80211              218867  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
crc_ccitt              12824  1 rt2800lib
rfkill                 24174  3 cfg80211
ftdi_sio               35579  0
ir_lirc_codec          13150  0
lirc_dev               20316  1 ir_lirc_codec
ir_mce_kbd_decoder     13047  0
ir_sanyo_decoder       12721  0
gpio_ir_recv           13139  0
sch_fq_codel           17578  6
ir_sony_decoder        12718  0
ir_rc6_decoder         12715  0
ir_rc5_sz_decoder      12724  0
ir_rc5_decoder         12715  0
ir_nec_decoder         12715  0
ir_jvc_decoder         12715  0

So maybe the usbserial module isn’t installed? Perhaps I’m running into a similar issue as the following:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46505
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1566230

#9

I believe usbserial is built in. When you plug the monome in does it show up in /dev as /dev/ttyUSB0 or similar?

#10

Hi Owneo!

Yes, it shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0. If that means usbserial is loaded, then perhaps it’s an issue with libmonome or serialosc, the monome softwares. Although they seem to be installing correctly… Curiouser and curiouser… I feel like I’m close.

#11

Oh BTW I’ve also installed the [comport] external, which appears to be installed correctly – but when I plugin the monome it prints this error in the PD window:

[comport] ** ERROR ** could not get termios-structure of device at /dev/ttyS0
[comport] opening serial port 0 failed!

Which is curious because the monome is at /dev/ttyUSB0, so perhaps an unrelated error and the monome is simply not showing up.

#12

Oops, looks like I’m getting somewhere with [comport]

[comport] set_baudrate: Setting baud rate to 230400 with baudbits 0x1003
[comport] opened serial line device 4 (/dev/ttyUSB0)

Baby steps. Sorry for spamming the thread every little step of the way. :slight_smile:

#13

that is strange… is serialosc running at same time? also you probably want to plug in monome then start Pd.

attached is a simple patch to do serial OSC right from Pd. I’ve used it with an Arduino. If the monome device sends and receives OSC over serial using SLIP encoding, this might work…

serial-osc.pd (385 Bytes)
o.io.slipserial.pd (273 Bytes)

#14

Hey now, now we’re getting somewhere. I’ve got LED’s lighting up! That’s a good sign. I’m gonna keep cracking at it!

#15

A bit offtopic, but when I unplug and plug a USB cable, PD automatically closes. Is there a way to change this behavior?

#16

Pd doesn’t like it when MIDI devices disappear, so we decided to just have Pd quit if any USB devices get removed. This script gets called automatically when a USB device is removed

/root/scripts/usb-dev-removed.sh

To stop this behavior, you can rename or remove this script. First you have to remount the root file system because it is read only. You can do this by running

mount / -o remount,rw
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#17

Alright! It’s working! I’ve moved everything to a repo. View the README for setup and install.

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#18

I’ve updated the README in the repo, added some Patches, and still updating the dependencies as I clean up. If anyone tries this and runs into issues, let me know.

Over all big success! Monome looks like it’s working with Organelle! :thumbsup: Not bad for a day or two of enjoyable hacking. :slight_smile:

Now I’ll set up a script to launch serialosc on boot, and some other small niceties. Really looking forward to using these two devices together!

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#19

Holy crap! Best christmas present ever!
Will test this with my 256 when I get home after new years!

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#20

Thank you for such a great job. Will try it out (hope i will handle it;) asap. Have a great end of year.

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#21

I think I’ve had more fun with my Monome in the last few days than I have in a while.

I’m playing with a sequencer based on the monome grid-studies sequencer tutorial, upgraded to use a sample-based clock using [cyclone/edge~] and a [phasor~] via pd-extended. Just goofing around, sending MIDI to a Moog Minitaur. I stress-test the clock towards the end of the video. The sequencer is polyphonic but the Moog is mono so it only plays a single note in the row. Also, you may notice the pitch is inverted on the sequencer the way I have it oriented.

The knobs are:

  1. Tempo
  2. Note Step (1/1 to 1/128)
  3. Swing (WIP)
  4. Gate

It’s great to be able to use the Organelle’s keys to program the notes of the arpeggiator!

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#22

Awesome work here. One of the many reasons the organelle originally piqued my interest was the possibility of being able to use it as a host for my monome. Your work saves me a bunch of time breaking things.

I’ve followed your footsteps and have it almost working. I keep seeing “udpsend: not connected” errors on keypress (when in the GUI pd patcher), and no LEDs illuminate, but when running the monome polysynth patch, notes are indeed being played on keypress (with the same errors and non LED illumination). Any thoughts to point me in the right direction with this problem?

#23

hey btw

do you think a wifi adapter should be included under “hardware” in the docs?
just a suggestion (unless it’s possible to install w/o one)

#24

Rad that people are trying this out :slight_smile:

re: @glia

Yes, good catch. I’ve updated the README. A network adapter is required to install any new packages obv.

re: @halvves

When you say keys, do you mean organelle keys or monome buttons?

I realized I didn’t explicitly say to copy everything in scripts/ to /root/scripts on the Organelle, I’ve updated that as well – so perhaps serialosc isn’t connected if you’re getting udp errors. I’ve also updated the serialosc.pd patch in the Patches folder which may aid debugging.

To confirm if the Monome LED’s are working, you could send osc directly to serialosc by opening a terminal and running

/root/scripts/start-serialosc-server.sh

For me, it returns:

serialosc [m128-489]: connected, server running on port 10145

Making a note of the port, try turning all the LED’s on or off with:

oscsend localhost 10145 /monome/grid/led/all i 1 # all on
oscsend localhost 10145 /monome/grid/led/all i 0 # all off
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