organelle + monome grid & serialosc

Hardware

• Critter + Gutari Organelle
• Monome 128 Grid Grayscale (non varibright). Other Monome Grids should work.

Optional

• Powered USB Hub

Patches

SerialOSC-Install

This patch installs serialosc on the Organelle.

Monome Basic Poly

Indiviual Monome Keys illuminate when pressed and trigger the Basic Poly voice patch that shipped with the Organelle.

Grid Apps

Various Grid apps examples ported to PureData from Aleph via https://github.com/boqs/pd-grid, including

• grid
• kria
• meadowphysics
• step
• whitewhale

Note: These apps do not make sound. They are intended to be used as an example and starting point for new patches.

How to Use

1. Copy the example patches to your Organelle's USB drive or SD card.

2. Plug in the Monome. Note: In my testing, the Organelle's USB port doesn't supply enough power for a Monome 128 Grid to light all its LED's, so a powered USB hub was required.

Installation

Run SerialOSC-Installer first. This patch installs the serialosc binaries and libmonome shared libraries to the Organelle's OS. It also adds serialosc as a daemon that runs at startup.

1. Plug in the Monome Grid via USB
2. Press AUX to start installation

Upon a successful installation, the display should notify you if it is connected and active and the Grid's light should illuminate. Pressing a key will light it up.

If you are not compiling the extensions yourself, you only need the compiled extensions and the pd files to run the patches.

Uninstall

Via the terminal, navigate to the SerialOSC-Installer folder and run

./uninstall.sh

Then, delete all patches from your Organelle.