--- theme: gaia _class: lead backgroundColor: #000000 --- # **Towards a universal button grid interface** ## And it's open implementation Thibaud Keller [ossia.io](https://ossia.io) - Maynooth University *made with [marp](https://marp.app)* ![bg right:40%](images/deluge-slider-2.jpg) ![bg](images/UGS.png) ![bg blur:2px](images/monome-gridlab.jpg) --- # 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 --- # Origins of backlit button grids ![bg vertical right:40% 70%](images/202edited.png) ![bg 70%](images/sp808_gal.jpg) 1998 - SP seriers (202 & 808) Performance samplers The grid allows: - Sampling and trigering - Copy and paste - Step recording --- ![bg 67%](images/grid_releases.svg) --- # Notable instruments and sequencers - 2007 - Tenori-on, Yamaha - 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) --- # 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) --- # Problem - A majority of closed source, propriatery hardware. - No standard, or overly standardized practices - Divergent aproaches of availabe libraries - Many overlapping features --- # The issue of menus --- # 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. --- [[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