Here's a max/msp patch I've been fiddling with for the few days since my 
40h showed up.  It controls four audio loopers, each represented by a 
4x4 grid on the monome.  Not all of the buttons are mapped to anything 
useful yet:

12..
12..
1...
1..3

1: this column shows a VU meter for the loop in question.  pressing the 
buttons will momentarily adjust the feedback (normally 100%) -- the top 
two make it louder (press them both for the largest gain) and the bottom 
two make it quieter (ditto for a quick fade.)  you can tap the buttons 
in time with the sound to boost/cut bits of the loop.

2: these two buttons momentarily engage recording, overdubbing into the 
loop.  the lower one records at a slightly lower volume; again, you can 
press both to record louder.

3: this is a "function" key.  right now, the only defined function is to 
clear the loop -- hold down this button and hit the bottom-left button.

There's still a lot of work to do on this; I need to hook up buttons to 
adjust loop length on the fly, dump the current loop to a file, etc.  It 
does work in Pluggo, but there's only one pair of outputs; it would be 
nice to have individual outs for each loop.  Also, the loops are 
currently mono.

All the same, I've been having a blast with it.  If I could only 
vocalize like Jamie Lidell...

One more thing for the to-do list: using the host tempo when running as 
a plug-in.
I'll shut up now.

> 
> There's still a lot of work to do on this; I need to hook up buttons to 
> adjust loop length on the fly, dump the current loop to a file, etc.  It 
> does work in Pluggo, but there's only one pair of outputs; it would be 
> nice to have individual outs for each loop.  Also, the loops are 
> currently mono.
> 
> All the same, I've been having a blast with it.  If I could only 
> vocalize like Jamie Lidell...

this sounds good mate, is there anyway to get this working so that the 
loops you record in this could then be dumped into something like mlr 
and tinkered with. thats been my plan all along with the box really.

cheers for sharing.

michael fisher wrote:
> 
> this sounds good mate, is there anyway to get this working so that the 
> loops you record in this could then be dumped into something like mlr 
> and tinkered with. thats been my plan all along with the box really.
> 
> cheers for sharing.

Huh, that's probably doable.  I haven't looked at the internals of mlr 
too much yet (I actually haven't been able to get it to work here, 
though I haven't tried very hard.)  If you wanted to actually use both 
patches at the same time then you'd need some sort of switcher to 
control which one is talking to the monome box, and then a command in 
4loops to dump a loop into one of mlr's buffers.  A hybrid patch could 
be cool, too -- say, using the bottom 3 rows for the loopers, and the 
top 5 for mlr-style control.

way more ideas than tinkering time at this point, since I'm starting a 
new job on Monday... :)

Eric Moon wrote:
> Here's a max/msp patch I've been fiddling with for the few days since my 
> 40h showed up.  It controls four audio loopers, each represented by a 
> 4x4 grid on the monome.  Not all of the buttons are mapped to anything 
> useful yet:


sounds great, hope i get a second to check it out. i really like the 
decoupled controls (vu serves other functions.) nice work!

michael fisher wrote:
> this sounds good mate, is there anyway to get this working so that the 
> loops you record in this could then be dumped into something like mlr 
> and tinkered with. thats been my plan all along with the box really.

have you considered taking a stab at it yourself, michael? it'd be a 
good exercise.

brian crabtree wrote:
> michael fisher wrote:
>> this sounds good mate, is there anyway to get this working so that the 
>> loops you record in this could then be dumped into something like mlr 
>> and tinkered with. thats been my plan all along with the box really.
> 
> have you considered taking a stab at it yourself, michael? it'd be a 
> good exercise.

I can't, I used up my demo time in max/msp about 6 months ago and thanks 
to a recent hardware purchase I don't currently have the funds to buy 
it.

michael fisher wrote:
> brian crabtree wrote:
>> michael fisher wrote:
>>> this sounds good mate, is there anyway to get this working so that the 
>>> loops you record in this could then be dumped into something like mlr 
>>> and tinkered with. thats been my plan all along with the box really.
>> 
>> have you considered taking a stab at it yourself, michael? it'd be a 
>> good exercise.
> 
> I can't, I used up my demo time in max/msp about 6 months ago and thanks 
> to a recent hardware purchase I don't currently have the funds to buy 
> it.

+ i wouldn't have a clue where to start.

Is this only for recording loops live.  Can you not drop prerecorded 
loops in?  I stared at this for a while trying to figure that out.  Love 
the look of it, and the multi-functionality.

son dod wrote:
> Is this only for recording loops live.  Can you not drop prerecorded 
> loops in?  I stared at this for a while trying to figure that out.  Love 
> the look of it, and the multi-functionality.

Right, it's only for recording loops live.  It's akin to old looper
hardware like the echoplex; basically, each looper is a delay line with
the feedback (usually) turned up to 100%, so you can continuously
overdub sound into a loop.  Things get a little more involved when you
change the loop length or tempo...

tehn wrote:
> Eric Moon wrote:
>> Here's a max/msp patch I've been fiddling with for the few days since my 
>> 40h showed up.  It controls four audio loopers, each represented by a 
>> 4x4 grid on the monome.  Not all of the buttons are mapped to anything 
>> useful yet:
> 
> 
> sounds great, hope i get a second to check it out. i really like the 
> decoupled controls (vu serves other functions.) nice work!

Potentially, with the proper midi controls, could it substitute a loop 
station guitar pedal?

i really wanna check this out but its missing from the resources page. 
anyone have a copy?