February 14th, 2011

Monday morning and back to work.  It was a pretty mellow day at the office and I got home in time to put June to bed.  I hung out with Jenny until it was time for bed and then I sat there searching for something to do.  As I searched the internet for ideas I remembered something that I could do, which was modify my app.

For my show I plan on having my Monome 128 strapped to a podium in front of a television set.  When you press a button on the monome, you will trigger one of the many videos I’ve made over the year to play on the TV set.  In the main part of the show as you walk along the timeline and come across a day where I made a video you will see a diagram of my 128 beside the picture with a single button highlighted.  If you were to press that same button on the monome that particular video will play.  If nobody touches the monome after a while then a video will automatically play at random.

Tonight I opened my app and stripped it of any functionality I didn’t need, like the pattern recorders and the midi stuff.  I altered my playback engine to match a configuration recommended by Max/MSP afficionado named Vade.  Vade designed a series of optimisation methods for playback in Jitter.

For this, I’m not concerned with how fast it triggers.  I only care that it can play the higher resolution files without stuttering.  Unfortunately, I was too lazy to test it out.  I just performed the basics and plan on testing it with the monome fairly soon.