I'm working on a few Monomic Max patches, and my general working method
is to create discrete, self-contained chunks encapsulating specific
functions.

This utility abstraction, iobox, has made it very easy for me to
interface the Monome with anything in Max/MSP.  It combines OSC routing
and transformation of
Monome's native col/row/val into other data:

total cells on
last cell on/off
pad down/up
midi note on/off (C-2 in lower left corner, D#3 in upper right)
latch toggle for double-press on/off or one-shot
bang for a random on cell
basic clear all cells function
sim_monome matrixctrl - accepts clicks and mirrors Monome presses.
some amount off built-in feedback suppression

I have a few things I want to add to it yet so it's only v0.8.  If
you're writing patches already, or just getting started in Max/MSP now
that you're obsessed by this wonderful controller, it may save you
re-hacking the wheel.

OSX only at the moment, but shouldn't be hard to make work on XP.

http://www.2secondfuse.com/monome/iobox_osx.zip

I just updated it to v0.6... added in the latch function from another 
patch.

can't wait to get a moment to check these out!

brian crabtree wrote:
> can't wait to get a moment to check these out!

I had a little extra time at the end of the night, so I evened out the 
input/output ratio a little.  v0.7 now.

brian crabtree wrote:
> can't wait to get a moment to check these out!

I just updated it to v0.8.  I built in some feedback suppression and a 
few more capabilities, and turned it into an actual abstraction with 
help file.

This patch made it really easy and super fast for me to interface the 
Monome with all my regular Max patches.  I'm working on one for release 
which lays 8-tone scales over the pads, randomly driving chosen notes on 
an FM synth with bpm driven delay and filtering.  It's a patch I've used 
in the past, but now with Monomic mojo.

Vlad Spears wrote:
> brian crabtree wrote:
>> can't wait to get a moment to check these out!
> 
> I just updated it to v0.8.  I built in some feedback suppression and a 
> few more capabilities, and turned it into an actual abstraction with 
> help file.
> 
> This patch made it really easy and super fast for me to interface the 
> Monome with all my regular Max patches.  I'm working on one for release 
> which lays 8-tone scales over the pads, randomly driving chosen notes on 
> an FM synth with bpm driven delay and filtering.  It's a patch I've used 
> in the past, but now with Monomic mojo.

Sounds great. Any news on an XP version? (Such a loser for using XP as 
main OS. Must... migrate...)

Roo Reynolds wrote:

> Sounds great. Any news on an XP version? (Such a loser for using XP as 
> main OS. Must... migrate...)

I have some Max/MSP work on Win XP coming up in the not-so-distant 
future, so I'll likely pop out some 40h patches for XP then, too.

As somone who uses Mac, Win, Linux (and a couple other) platforms 
regularly for various reasons, I absolutely endorse migrating to OSX as 
your main music machine.