The Wavy Industries Monkey is the tiniest MIDI master keyboard

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The Wavy Industries Monkey (wavyindustries.com/monkey ) is a tiny 2 octave #midikeyboard that comes with a 16 track #sequencer /looper, #arpeggiator with different styles, and a lot of built in MIDI effects (delay, stutter...). This video is a short walkthrough and also a rant on the state of bluetooth midi on Windows and Linux
00:00 demo 1
00:27 hi
00:58 bluetooth MIDI on Windows - oh well
02:32 hardware walkthrough
06:45 call for papers ;-)
07:07 16 track sequencer demo / jam
10:45 verdict
11:26 extra: playing a hardware synth, and bluetooth MIDI on Linux - oh well
13:59 bye-bye
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@reingundersenbentdal4136 3 месяца назад

Hi! I'm the creator behind Wavy Industries. Thanks for making this video Floyd ❤️ For those using macOS, there are good news: connecting up is easy:)

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

It's also very easy on Android (though even there, a special app is needed) As I said in the video - what a cool thing you created here. I bet you have some stories to tell ;-)

@pjforde1978 3 месяца назад

You almost have a customer in me, sir. The artwork alone is worth my money. However, I find the psychological hurdle of paying EUR30 to ship something the size of a microcontroller board to Canada to brings my ambition to a dead halt. You need a north american distributor.

@alexandrosroussos 3 месяца назад

@reingundersenbental4136 have you ever tried to sync this with a CME WIDI product ? Could be an easy way to connect this with devices that don’t have USB host. But at the end, adding a TRS A/B switchable MIDI port would put make everybody agree 😅

@reingundersenbentdal4136 3 месяца назад

@@alexandrosroussos Hi, I havent tried it yet. But it has worked with all Bluetooth MIDI devices I have tried so would be abnormal if it doesnt work. Note: Monkey does not have USB either. Its a pure bluetooth device

@alexandrosroussos 3 месяца назад

@@reingundersenbentdal4136 if it is BT only then definitely would fit well with CME’s products and yes a TRS port would have opened to a much more use cases. I understand at some point you need to take design decisions though, making it unsuitable for some of the potential users.

@_c_y_p_3 3 месяца назад

This is sick, people gonna be making beats in the ultralight up in the Alps and us peasants will just be down here on our early 00 Remote47s bumping that sub with the Live8. Win7 porvida!!!!

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Be careful though, ultraviolet light can erase the code on flash rom chips ;-)

@peterthepiper333 2 месяца назад

This looks amazing. It's everything that I thought was interesting about the easyplay but better.

@mr_floydst 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching! :-)

@silverpairaducks 3 месяца назад

Remember those little electric pianos youd get usually at Christmas ...this reminds me of that

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Yes! :-) I'd like to have one of those purely for nostalgic reasons. There was a time when those were everywhere ;-)

@akdm82 3 месяца назад

You find the coolest stuff. Thanks. I’m definitely getting one of these. Maybe two. 😃 I’ll 3D print a case for it.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@hellf.o 3 месяца назад

Wow this is so great! What an interesting device!

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@donaldferguson7777 3 месяца назад

Hey floyd! thatx for another neat gadget!

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@lummsmusik3219 3 месяца назад

Ordered! 59€ + 10€ shipping to Germany.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Congrats! :-)

@rmriwatch 2 месяца назад

Great review. What does the butterfly thing do? Is that some type of expressive control?

@reingundersenbentdal4136 2 месяца назад

Its just for graphics and the programmer header haha

@ooocarneiro 3 месяца назад

Wonderful! I will stay away from Bluetooth midi for now, though 😂. Thank you for the explanations on this.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching - yes, at the moment, the only hardware manufacturer that supports Bluetooth MIDI is Apple. On Android, a seperate App is needed as well, but at least that works as intended everytime. Linux and Windows? It's difficult. :-)

@godboat. 3 месяца назад

though midi ble can work really well on w11 if the device developers make use of the korg midi ble driver, which cme has done (widi) and i think op z

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for pointing that out!

@noisebrick9248 3 месяца назад

This is really interesting, I was just about to send the preorder but i don't have an iPad/tablet so i feel like it'd be a bit of a waste (esp cause i use windows on my computer now)... Looks really fun though would love to play around with this one

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

It's really not fun to establish the connection in Windows. A TRS socket would be nice indeed :-)

@lummsmusik3219 3 месяца назад

Dear Floyd, someone should care about the open Polaron Drum synth project. It is outdated and runs on an the not available Teensy 3.6 Plattform. Maybe you can help and bring it to Teensy 4.1?

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

I'll take a look, thanks for pointing it out. I can't promise anything, though. Perhaps we can find other people to step in.

@lummsmusik3219 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst Thanks so much.

@pjforde1978 3 месяца назад

Windows Bluetooth MIDI will get no more hours from my life. It used to work, but then about five years ago, Microsoft broke it and won't talk about fixing it. Infuriating. Monkey looks awesome. My favourite feature is the lighthouse.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

The only platform that doesn't require additional software seems to be MacOS/IOS. Android needs a Bluetooth MIDI app running, but it's a breeze compared to Windows and (RasPi) Linux.

@bornach 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst I managed to link an electronic wind instrument to a Raspberry Pi 4 via Bluetooth 5 to send wireless MIDI but the latency was terrible! Might have to get one of those WIDI dongle things that plug into the USB.

@pjforde1978 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst I did not realize that Android was similarly FUBAR. It's really such an embarrassment to the industry. At any rate, what's important is that it seems most non-microprocessor hardware (eg. synths) with Bluetooth implementations seems to talk to indy BLE capable devices just fine. And indeed, the best use case I can think of for Monkey is quite literally vacation, where my baggage budget for music gear is better spent on other things.

@tuesss 3 месяца назад

Bluetooth MIDI is a mess in general, even on Android and MacOS. It's not as difficult to set up on those, but tends to stop working randomly. Actually, Bluetooth in general is a mess. As for Windows, I'm not sure if you're serious... That OS still doesn't support basic functionality related to normal computer keyboards, like choosing a sane keyboard layout. Bluetooth MIDI keyboards are surely much more niche...

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Well, I'm not a Windows hater, far from it. My comment was made to set up the mild chuckle one might have when hearing the exact same words later in the video when trying to use Bluetooth MIDI on Linux/RasPi. ;-) I agree that bluetooth is a mess. For example, my bluetooth headphones, while convenient and good-sounding, fail at least once in 15 minutes, stuttering and pausing. It's just not reliable, especially when a lot of other WiFi/Bluetooth devices are around (which is the case almost all the time, everywhere)

@tuesss 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst Maybe that's why GNU/Linux lags so much in Bluetooth support - GNU/Linux users are used to things working reliably and there is just no way to achieve that with Bluetooth yet. Although I must admit the situation on MacOS looks quite good already, my headphones disconnect only once a day on average and I'm not even sure if it's Apple's fault or rather Sennheiser's. Actually, NixOS and SteamOS (my only distros with Bluetooth interfaces attached) seem to handle them quite well too except I couldn't get the mic working and gave up because I didn't need it that much. Windows, though... it is the only OS I know that can fail to detect *wired* headphones connected via normal TRS jack, requiring a reboot. I feel like there is no such thing as Windows haters, it's just Windows hating its users ;) Although most have a pretty high tolerance for random bugs.

@BrendaCreates 3 месяца назад

It doesn't seem practical to me. Its interesting but i cant see myself wanting to use it.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

I can see where you're coming from. One certainly needs to be a bit geeky and at least a bit fond of gadgets ;-) There are other, more practical options around.

@alexandrosroussos 3 месяца назад

This would have been perfect with some TRS midi.

@WavyIndustries 3 месяца назад

Hi! The first prototype actually had TRS output. But removed it 🤔 Might consider a future version with the addition of TRS if more people are interested

@lummsmusik3219 3 месяца назад

The RK008 by Retrokits should work as a bridge Bluetooth to TRS Midiports. I connect all my Bluetooth devices to it like Korg Nanostudio.

@alexandrosroussos 3 месяца назад

@@lummsmusik3219 but the RK006 is at least as big so that doesn’t make too much sense 🤷🏻‍♂️

@lummsmusik3219 3 месяца назад

@@alexandrosroussos Are you sure? It is a tiny device which fits into your trousers pocket.

@croolis 3 месяца назад

TRS is needed for me - I'm looking for a very small midi keyboard to go with the Dirtywave M8 which doesn't have Bluetooth or usb host. I saw 'midi master keyboard' and expected midi :)

@maximerobin 3 месяца назад

To be fair, Bluetooth midi is mostly use with tablets and smart phones. For exemple this might be really interesting to play some audio plug ins or something like Koala Sampler on your phone. Nothing to plug and so tiny aka portable!

@clown134 3 месяца назад

woah first

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Congrats. :-)

@vision_thing 3 месяца назад

"we need to go through the absolute shambles that bluetooth is on windows" correct. However, i've spent many an hour on linux trying to get it working efficiently and that is also a mess!

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

If you watch the whole video you'll find I tried to set up a running gag there :)

@vision_thing 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst haha, yes, i just got through and was coming back here. raspbian hell.

@vision_thing 3 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst I have given up trying to get bluetooth to work with my project.

@zyxyuv1650 3 месяца назад

Floyd you have 1 chance left to have a music career, you're throwing it all away by spending 90% of your time on GAS and shallow gear consumerism instead of 90% of time on producing tracks/songwriting/studying music. You don't realize that people who are really doing something can't get free time to watch this video. Every day of my life, I work on music until I'm forcing my eyes to stay open so I can get a few more minutes in. I pull 17 hour days half the week just to force the songs to get done. Sometimes I fall asleep with my head hitting the piano keyboard and wake up 6 hours later like WTF happened. You're doing the opposite of what you need to do. You just don't realize, you lost everything to this gear.

@mr_floydst 3 месяца назад

Thanks for your wake up call ;-) I'm going to answer as honest and open as I can on the internet. While I've seen my music getting some traction (especially with my last release music.apple.com/de/album/not-my-hyena/1657940323 ), often I'm too tired to be creative. We have young kids who are fighting their own struggles, got to help them with that as best as I can, that's the most important thing I can do in my life. Often, I'm falling asleep 8pm on the sofa, lol. :-) Another thing is I really enjoy tinkering with small gadgets and building DIY synths. The small teams or people who build these, they're full of enthusiasm and ideas. It's so nice to be a part of that. I try to spotlight DIY projects and one-man-companies. And then there's the simple fact that I need to earn some money, it's been a tough time ever since the pandemic came around. So many businesses closed down, and as I'm working in service for small to mid-sized companies, the impact can be felt. I also can see the numbers, and pure music videos never get the view count a tutorial video or gear review video gets. That being said, I _will_ release a new song here on YT next week that I think isn't too shabby! ;-) Take care and all the best of luck with your own endeavours!