I made an audiovisual hack for the MKII. The pads are now live EQ bars!

Here's a link to the YouTube video. Once I read in the manual the the pad colors could be controlled through midi, I sketched up a quick program in Processing that listens to the audio playing on my computer and sends EQ information to the MKII in the form of a 4x4 HSB color matrix. It was a fun little hack to put together

Here's the code if anyone wants it.

 

That is pretty wild! Something about this is soothing ... perhaps the thought that it was possible but now actually exists.
Thanks for including the code!

Terry

 

thats dope...

 

Thanks guys, I'm happy you were amused by it! It was a fun random project, and it only took about an hour to figure out.

 

if you can get it to play Simon Says in any colors that would be cool cuz you could make beats and learn from making beats by using the Simon Says beat Theory

 

Yeah always wanted to have that Simon game running on Maschine.

http://labs.uxmonk.com/simon-says/

 

I have a week until my next job starts, and I don't think it would be particularly difficult to do... Should I program a Simon Says game for Maschine? hehe

 

Yes and if you could make a scale mode options and how do you install the code

 

This is going to be a great weekend project! I've already begun programming a rhythmic Simon Says for the MKII, and am looking forward to a scale version as well.

 

bilposey: In order to run my code, you need to go to www.processing.org and install Processing 3 as well as TheMidiBus and Minim libraries within Processing. Then you can create a new sketch and paste my code into the window. Clicking Run after that will make the pads in Group A dance to music, so long as they are configured for HSB in the Controller Editor. I will upload a video to youtube explaining it soon!

If I program the game as a middleman midi transceiver, then the user would be required to load Maschine and set up samples in before they play the game. This would give the enormous benefit of high configurability, but this could make an otherwise trivial and casual activity incredibly daunting. If I instead write a program that includes all the samples for a basic stand-alone experience with the MKII controller, I think it would be a lot easier and accessible in the end. I will start a new thread after I've made some progress on that front.

 

Take your time because maschine developers doesn't work as that fast as you are
Yes 808 samples would be the thing
and you can find these samples everywhere on the internet

 

Shouldn't be drum sounds. Even tones basically like the link I supplied, so every time it effectively plays a tune which you memorise. Cheers.