I'm no stranger to derailment, myself! so much to explore, so little time...

a cyberdeck next to DJ decks, in a brewery

thanks chris! I need to make a video on it soon. I've been dipping my toe into live performance with it lately, in the context of supplementing a DJ set, and it's been a ton of fun

I love to do my part to help get people into cyberspace!

a messy office with a laptop, music tech gear, and a yellow smiley face neon light

yes! through an extremely long sysex message in which you send a packed bitmap. I'm not sure which nerd at novation added this feature, but I salute them 🫡

okay, to close the loop on this one: when I got the device, I was worried I had a big reverse-engineering problem ahead of me... only to find that novation provides robust documentation and hackability out of the box. super impressed. here we are 3 evenings of work later: a custom control surface!

Launch Control XL 3 programmer's DAW mode DAW mode provides additional functionality, allowing DAWs and DAW-like software to realise intuitive user interfaces on the Launch Control XL 3’s surface. The capabilities described in this chapter...

oh nice! DAW mode is well-documented, this doc works for the LC3 as well. you can use note messages to flip into DAW mode and enable relative CCs per row, and control the LEDs and LCD with sysex. sweet! not quite plug and play... but very customizable userguides.novationmusic.com/hc/en-gb/art...

so, there's a thread I'll tug. curiosity got the better of me, once again.

aha! my preorder arrived. it looks like it does indeed send absolute CC messages through the "LC3 1 MIDI Out" port... but if you can get the device into DAW mode, through opening a supported DAW (or by tricking it?), then it will send relative CCs, through the "LC3 1 DAW Out" port.

sweet, thanks for the scoop! hopefully I can procrastinate long enough on hacking it that they handle it for me

aw man, my preorder just shipped, I had (reasonably?) assumed it would be sending relative CC messages. hopefully could be fixed with a firmware update from them? or maybe I have a new side project ahead of me...

I just met him for the first time 2 months ago at middlesex. he was immediately nice, we had a good conversation about together fest and a mutual friend who had passed away. I was looking forward to the next time I ran into him. thanks for sharing the news.

use your Ableton Move as a MIDI controller YouTube video by Ryan Challinor

I made a simple app that makes it possible to use the Ableton Move as a generic MIDI control surface. it's available for free on github. check it out! youtu.be/3MFJ3M2qzuE #ableton #abletonmove #midi #synth #synthsky

a cyberdeck with an ableton move controller running bespoke

the cyberdeck closed in its case

further progress on the bespoke cyberdeck. it's held together nicely with an aluminum frame now, all super sturdy and opens/closes without anything getting squished or falling out. I was planning to add an aluminum faceplate, but it looks cool in this exposed form, so I'll leave it as-is #synthsky

a small portable computer in a "cyberdeck" configuration using an ableton move to control bespoke synth

work in progress #bespokesynth #synthsky

there's a part of me that _likes_ having everything exposed and messy... but I've finally admitted to myself that it's impractical to stick to that ideal

new bespoke module: interface! YouTube video by Ryan Challinor

here's a look at a new "interface" module, now available in the latest bespoke nightly: youtu.be/doDEtCytQGA #bespokesynth

latency calculation in bespoke, and the speed of sound YouTube video by Ryan Challinor

here's a demo of bespoke's new latencycalculator module, plus a fun accidental discovery that you can use it to measure real-world distances (???) youtu.be/9TesmE8e3-A #bespokesynth

tassel cowboy was the life of the party

awesome times playing #somerville #porchfest yesterday with acid basket!

and once I get this technical part out of the way, the actual "recreate the move workflow" part can begin!

I'm using the move's "control live" mode, and having bespoke pretend to be live. much of the "control live" mode works very similarly to push 2, so I'm able to leverage a lot of the push 2 API that ableton generously released on github, and just need to adapt a few things to work with move instead.

I really love the move hardware and workflow, but (as is my way) I really want the ability to push it a little further add my own features. my goal is to recreate much of the move's functionality within bespoke, paired with bespoke on a steam deck, to make a mini music-making station.

...and it's pretty similar in many ways. the display format for the screen is pretty wild though. once I get further along, the code for this will go up on bespoke's github as well.

I'm using the public push 2 API (github.com/Ableton/push... and github.com/Ableton/push...) which was mindblowingly awesome of them to release, and then doing some reverse engineering from there. I've got a head start since I already wrote bespoke's push2 integration (github.com/BespokeSynth...) ...

and away we go!

ableton move controller with "bespoke" printed on the display

I really love figuring out how to make hardware do stuff that it's not meant for

there's so much I want to do with bespoke, and so few decades left to achieve it!

woah, sweet: the ableton move uses a very similar protocol as the push 2 for communication, so with only a minor tweak, bespoke already has some minimal move support

an ableton push 2 connected to a steam deck running bespoke synth

sweet! I plugged the push 2 into the steam deck, and the integration with bespoke works out of the box, I didn't have to fix anything!