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Towards a universal button grid interface

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And it's open implementation

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Thibaud Keller
+ossia.io - Maynooth University
+made with marp

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An enduring practice

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    Thoroughly documented at LMU Munich by Beat Rossmy [1],
    +with Alexander Wiethoff [2], Maximilian Rauh[3]
    +and Sebastian Unger [4].

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    With a dedicated course at Berklee college of Music
    +"Grid Controller Studies" ISEL-112 [5]

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    And an active community of artists and developers [6]
    +Due, in part, to the open source, and open-ended nature of monome's grid

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The monome way

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+As presented in Maker Stories [7].

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Origins of backlit button grids

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1998 - SP series (202 & 808)
+Performance samplers

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The grid allows:

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  • Sampling and triggering
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  • Copy and paste
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  • Step recording
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Figure 2 in Rosmy, B. & Wiethoff, A. “Musical Grid Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions.” 2021[2]
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Notable instruments and sequencers

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  • 2007 - Tenori-on, Yamaha
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  • 2014 - BeatStep, Arturia
    +Circadian Rhythm, Tip Top audio (eurorack)
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  • 2015 - Circuit, Novation
    +Pocket operators, Teenage Engineering (hand held)
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  • 2016 - Deluge, Synthstrom (open source)
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  • 2017 - Seq, Polyend (wide)
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  • 2019 - Zoia, Empress (nodal patcher)
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  • 2023 - Push 3, Ableton (export to and from a PC)
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Notable controllers

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

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Problem

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  • A majority of closed source, proprietary hardware.
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  • Either a blank slate (monome), or overly standardized practices
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  • Software specific libraries, with divergent approaches
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  • Many overlapping features
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The issue with menus

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The case of the
+Yamaha FS1R [8]
+and the dread of
+"menu diving"

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Tangible timelines

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+Samuel J. Hunt's UGS [9] & Beat Rossmy's SuperBrain

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Bibliographie

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[1] Rossmy, B. “Buttons, Sliders, and Keys – A Survey on Musical Grid Interface Standards.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2022.

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[2] Rossmy, B., & Wiethoff, A. “Musical Grid Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2021.

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[3] 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] Rossmy, B., Unger, S., & Wiethoff, A. “TouchGrid – Combining Touch Interaction with Musical Grid Interfaces.” In International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2021.

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

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

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[7] Maker Stories. “Monome / Open Source Tools for Music Makers.” https://stories.maker.co/monome-open-source-tools-for-music-makers.

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[8] Robert Skerjanc, “HARDWARE-CONTROLLER FOR YAMAHA FS1R,” August 26, 2023. https://fs1r.skerjanc.de/.

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[9] Hunt, Samuel J. “Exploring Polyrhythms, Polymeters, and Polytempi with the Universal Grid Sequencer Framework.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference, 101–6. AM ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.

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