" [My monome] didn't fully work the first time I plugged it in, and I had to toy with it a lot," he says. "But it's the first instrument I've ever owned where, if it breaks, I know exactly how to ...

[youtube= [Mike] really liked the thought of the Monome, especially the green aspect of their construction. He felt he could take it a step further. After 40 years of electronics tinkering, he had … ...

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This may not look like a musical instrument, but it is—and a whole lot more. It's a grid of 8x8 buttons that light up when pressed. A USB interface ...

The grid of musical buttons known as Monome will be updated to a new version that will feature a new button design, the innards of which are depicted to the right (the design of the first "40h ...

If you're not familiar with Monome, the company designs and builds unique, minimalist controllers in limited editions for the discriminating music maker with deep pockets. The company's latest ...

In an ideal world someone would read this and send me a monome of my own to play with, but the button-encrusted control surfaces are in short supply (and not too cheap). Since controlling music ...

The monome became a musical fixture in Darlington's life and became his shtick - sort of. "I have been using the monome for 5 1/2 years, and I still feel like I'm learning," he said.

The idea is that each backlit button triggers a note, and the step-sequencer moves from left to right at a BPM pace you control with one of the side knobs. The FM synth chip blasts out some ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: "The wonderful thing about this device is that is doesn ...

monome arc: simple and beautiful. The monome has been the hi-tech hipster's choice of controller for several years now (in fact, it set the trend for grid-based devices) so it'll be interesting to see ...