meadowphysics: seamstress

documentation

The seamstress version of meadowphysics is based off of the original module code and should have all expected features. See the original documentation for playability instructions:

• https://monome.org/docs/modular/meadowphysics/
• https://monome.org/docs/modular/ansible/

parameters

meadowphysics

start/stop

• toggle-style parameter (RIGHT ARROW)
• turns counting on and off
• resets counters when toggled
• also called with external transport start/stop messages

step length

• sets the base counter rate
• ranges from 64th notes to 1 bar (4/4)

note length

• when a voice is in trigger mode, determines the length of the played note
• ranges from 25% to 100% of the step length

MIDI output

port

• set the outgoing MIDI port
• displays all MIDI devices connected + present at script load

midi out channel

• set the MIDI output channel
• ranges from 1 to 16

root note

• set the root note of the scale
• global scales are added to this value, so their data remains independent of the root note

save global scales

• trigger-style parameter (RIGHT ARROW)
• saves a gridscales.data file inside of the <seamstress_path>/data/meadowphysics folder -- see below for more details

keyboard + mouse interactions

seamstress uniquely offers keyboard and mouse interactions with the main window.

When the cascading counters are shown:

• mouse left-click: set the counter start
• TAB: toggle between cascading counters and scale page

When the scale page is shown:

• mouse left-click: focus on variable
• mouse wheel: increment / decrement focused variable
• UP ARROW / DOWN ARROW: cycle focus through variables within selected group
• LEFT ARROW / RIGHT ARROW: increment / decrement focused variable
• ESC: de-focus selected variable
• TAB: toggle between cascading counters and scale page

saving + loading state

Using the PSET system that seamstress provides (run seamstress -e hello_psets for instruction), state data is saved to and recalled from a meadowphysics folder in your seamstress data path. To see your path, execute path.seamstress on the command line while seamstress is running.

Following the practice of the hardware modules, scale data is global -- each PSET reads/writes scale data to/from the same gridscales.data file inside of the <seamstress_path>/data/meadowphysics folder. This allows you to root many cascading counter explorations in the same custom scales.

credits

meadowphysics was designed and written by @tehn (monome), originally a max patch and then a module and later into another module.

@dndrks created this version for seamstress, which is adapted and extended from the norns version.