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# **Towards a universal button grid interface**
## And it's open implementation
Thibaud Keller
[ossia.io](https://ossia.io) - Maynooth University
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# An enduring practice

- Thouroughly documented at LMU Munich by Beat Rossmy [[1]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.563bfea9),
with Alexander Wiethoff [[2]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.6a2451e6), Maximilian Rauh[[3]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.db84ecd0)
and Sebastian Unger [[4]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.303223db).

- With a dedicated course at Berklee colege of Music
"Grid Controller Studies" ISEL-112 [[5]](https://github.com/stretta/gridlab)

- And an active comunity of artists and developers [[6]](https://llllllll.co/tag/grid)
Due, in part, to the open source, and open ended nature of monome's grid

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# Origins of backlit button grids

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1998 - SP seriers (202 & 808)
Performance samplers

The grid allows:
- Sampling and trigering
- Copy and paste
- Step recording

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# Notable instruments and sequencers

- 2007 - Tenori-on, Yamaha<!-- * 2009 - Bliptronic 5000, ThinkGeek -->
- 2014 - BeatStep, Arturia
Circadian Rhythm, Tip Top audio (eurorack)
- 2015 - Circuit, Novation
Pokcket operators, Teenage Engineering (hand held)
- 2016 - Deluge, Synthstrom (open source)
- 2017 - Seq, Polyend (wide)
- 2019 - Zoia, Empress (nodal patcher)
- 2023 - Push 3, Ableton (export to and from a PC)

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# Notable Controllers

- 2006 - 40h, monome (open source)
- 2009 - launchpad, Novation
- 2013 - Push, Ableton
- 2014 - Untztrument, Adafruit (open source)
- 2015 - Linstrument, Roger Lynn (continuous surface)
- 2019 - Grid, Intech Studio (modular)
- 2020 - Mine S, Special Waves (modular)

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# Problem

- A majority of closed source, propriatery hardware.
- No standard, or overly standardized practices
- Divergent aproaches of availabe libraries
- Many overlapping features

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# The issue of menus

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# Bibliographie

[[1]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.563bfea9) Rossmy, B. “Buttons, Sliders, and Keys – A Survey on Musical Grid Interface Standards.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2022.

[[2]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.6a2451e6) Rossmy, B., & Wiethoff, A. “Musical Grid Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2021.

[[3]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.db84ecd0) Rossmy, B., Rauh, M., & Wiethoff, A. “Towards User Interface Guidelines for Musical Grid Interfaces.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2022.

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[[4]](https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.db84ecd0) Rossmy, B., Unger, S., & Wiethoff, A. “TouchGrid – Combining Touch Interaction with Musical Grid Interfaces.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2021.

[[5]](https://github.com/stretta/gridlab) Matthew Davidson, aka stretta, gridalb patches repository, June 21, 2024. https://github.com/stretta/gridlab.

[[6]](https://llllllll.co/tag/grid) Lines “Latest Grid Topics”. The monome comunity forum. https://llllllll.co/tag/grid