"serialosc is designed to be invisible"
Beautiful.
I never met anyone as obsessed with burning away design impurities, as Brian Crabtree. People gape at the physical design of monome's products. Their simple beauty is almost universally acknowledged, even by their detractors. Fewer people appreciate how the PCBs themselves are beautiful. For example, the PCBs are modular, which mirrors the modularity of the devices themselves. A monome 256 has four button board PCBs, two of these same boards may be used to make a 128, or one may be used to make a 64. There is one logic board per unit, and the same board is used in all units. The same beauty extends to the deceptive simplicity of the adaptable and flexible protocol itself.
The near simultaneous arrival of variable brightness, support for the arc, the protocol, and serialosc (win/mac/linux - designed by brian and programmed by will light) are all obviously connected and I don't think people fully understand the consequences. This is the groundwork for a new class of device; laying down the literal language of musical interoperability.
