0 Preface
i was installing it on Debian GNU/Linux with a already rt-patches including kernel. althought my system is already configured for audio applications, there should be no big issues to get this setup running on any fresh installed box (e.g. Ubuntu).
1 Installing serial-pyio
the serial modules should already be included in all standard distribution kernels.
serial-pyio was, at least for me, the out of the box solution. many thanks to ^Rooker, you can read the history of monome vs. linux on
http://forum.monome.org/topic/740or simply get the latest package from
http://serial-pyio.sf.net1.1 fast runthought installation
su - cd /usr/local/src mkdir monome wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/serial-pyio/serial-pyio-0.1.1.tar.bz2 tar xjvf serial-pyio-0.1.1.tar.bz2 ln -s /usr/local/src/monome/serial-pyio/run.sh /usr/local/bin/monome # connect monome # and watch the log which device handle it creates tail -f /var/log/messages # the same device must be mentioned in start script grep tty /usr/local/bin/monome # now fire it up monome
you could also use a modified version of the script whicht autodetects the device
http://modular-t.org/monomeATTENTION: u need to put this in the same path as the original run.sh as the paths inside are relative. so if u’ve followed the instructions above
/usr/local/src/monome/serial-pyio/would be the place to put it
2 using it with puredata
as many options pd offers, that complicated it looks in the beginning. take it easy, u’ll never now or need all features inside, just imagine it as a toolbox containing all the little audio screwdrivers u’ll need.
one source of information u’ll find here: http://puredata.org/downloads
choose the extended version in case u dont now what to take. it already includes many additional and usefull objects.
su - cd /usr/local/src wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pure-data/Pd-0.38.4-extended-linux-i386.tar.bz2 tar xjvf Pd-0.38.4-extended-linux-i386.tar.bz2 cd Pd-0.38* make install
that should it be.
type
pd
thats it.
u migth have a look on pd howto
i’ve modified the help patch included in this tutorial
to fit to the standard names in serial-pyio
http://modular-t.org/help-40h.pd3 futures
i’m currently writing on a little stepseq and live sampler
for a 40h.
its going into betatest the next week on its first concerts in vienna.
as soon i have a cleanuped 0.1 version i’ll put it in resources on monome.org.
please correct my typing errors
questions?
pi [ a t ] modular-t.org
Here’s a sneak preview at the current (almost released) new version of serial-pyio, running on Ubuntu / Gnome:
