Hackable LED Pad

Posted on April 18, 2006 at 12:02 am by Jerad Hill No Comment

This has got to be the coolest thing I have seen in quite a while.

The Monome is a new music interface with LED-backlit pads, a USB interface that transmits OSC and MIDI data to a computer, and — here’s the unusual part — open source, hackable firmware and software interface. Touch the pads, and you can use this as a step-sequencer and remix tool (as in the example), but the real philosophy here is being able to do whatever you want, so think of the example video as just a start.