monomeControllers
Backlit button-grid controller, 40h to 2022-era grid one / zero
The grid is monome's line of USB button-grid controllers, made since 2006. It has no fixed function: when connected to a computer, norns or a Eurorack module, the application determines what it does, for example a sequencer or sample cutter. Editions range from the 8x8 40h and the 64, 128 and 256-key series grids to the 16-step variable-brightness grids from 2012 onward and the RP2040-based grid one (8x16) and grid zero (16x16) of 2023.
The 40h, monome kit and early series grids have public firmware sources (some under non-commercial CC terms), while the 2022 grid, grid one and grid zero take monome's open iii firmware, which can switch back to the original serial mode. Grids from 2020-2021 and the older FTDI-based editions cannot run iii; use the viii browser emulator instead. Most grid apps run on the host or norns through serialosc and are software. No repository for 2011-2021 grid firmware was found. DIY grid clones (NeoTrellis-based) are covered by the neotrellis-monome entry.
monome's firmware that turns 2022-and-later grids into standalone Lua-scripted instruments with a USB-MIDI and serial REPL, a small on-device file system and startup scripts; it can switch back to serial mode.
Firmware sketches that make Adafruit NeoTrellis boards behave as a monome-compatible grid clone, with folders for RP2040, Teensy, Feather M4, NeoTrellis M4 and M0 boards.
by okyeron
Source for the original 2006 monome 40h button grid: AVR firmware, hardware layouts and parts list, published for building and hacking your own.
by Brian Crabtree, Joe Lake
Original sources for the 2010 monome kit grids: default, encoder and tilt-sensor firmwares for 8x8, 16x8 and 16x16 hardware, plus "-old" builds for early 40h-style orientation.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| v2.0 | 2014-09-17 |
Early monome firmware sources by board revision, including the gs64 and gs128 grayscale grids, with folders gs64rec10, gs64rec11, gs128, 64rec09, 128bus, 256bus and 2011.