monome 40h running step filter

It has been a while since I posted a 40h video. I recorded this last night with very low light. I intended to light it with a new Ikea lamp I picked up this weekend, but it washed out the LEDs. So, thinking the noise would be less noticeable after reduction and compression to youtube I went ahead and recorded without the extra light. However, After Effects has a noise/grain reduction effect, so I applied it and achieved a very soft-focus effect which wasn't disagreeable.

So here is what is happening in the video. The 40h is running a Max app I created for AHNE 2007. It is a simple step sequencer that is sending data to the Doepfer MCV24. Believe it or not, the app is producing crude envelopes for each sequence step and burning up a MIDI cable as continuous controller data. Eight outputs from the MCV24 are smoothed out with individual slew limiters and fed into a bank of band pass filters. The chord progression is produced with Digital Performer's Polysynth plugin and recording the result of the band pass filters back into an audio track. Meanwhile, Snaps Pro is recording a screen capture of my Max application so I can composite it into the video with After Effects. The point of this is to demonstrate how the eight sequences can loop polyrhythmically. If I were really hard-core I'd come up with a double button press gesture to indicate loop length (and direction!) on the 40h. DP is also sending MIDI beat clock to sync my application to it. Generic drum loops were added later. No, the 40h isn't triggering any drums.

There is is. Ta da. I hope everyone appreciates the fact that I put on pants before I turned on the video camera.



High quality version here.