Jamoma

Joseph Malloch recently created a new mapping module based on his DOT Mapper. The DOT mapper is a network-based peer-to-peer mapping network and associated GUI, built for digital musical instrument mapping in the IDMIL at McGill University.In ... [More] addition to Jamoma's jmod.mapper, jmod.mapperContinuous and jmod.mapperDiscrete this module offers an alternative way of creating mappings.Beside other cool things, Joe's module can create mappings within Jamoma, but also to environments outside the Jamoma world. Demo: DOT Mapper + Jamoma from Joseph Malloch on Vimeo. [Less]

During the Jamoma development workshop last week, the development team got invited to the Matralab at Concordia University in Montréal directed by Sandeep Bhagwati who holds the Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art. In his work, Sandeep explores the ... [More] artistic world between composed, predetermined structures and free improvisation. An approach which he calls "comprovisation". We discussed how Jamoma together with the Virage sequencer could be used for comprovisation. We also listened to some spatialization work by Navid Navab which was carried out with the help of Jamoma. It is always exciting to see (and hear) how Jamoma get used. [Less]

After more than a year of hard work and 17 previous beta versions, we are finally on the home stretch of releasing Jamoma 0.5 . We're glad to announce Jamoma 0.5 Release Candidate 1, which is available online . Jamoma 0.5 is a ... [More] major rewrite for Max 5, and also contains numerous improvements and new features. The Jamoma developers have been working hard lately to improve Jamoma, and to fix as many bugs as possible. However, some bugs may still have survived our testings, and we would appreciate your help to catch and report them before we announce the final release. We have set up a new project development site, and we would appreciate your registration under: http://redmine.jamoma.org/account/register It's a good place to keep in touch with the Jamoma developers and to report bugs and feature requests, so everybody's welcome ! The most important changes have been listed in the ChangeLog, and there is also a guideline to port your modules from Jamoma 0.4 to 0.5. Though, even if you have been using the 0.5 betas, you'll need to change a few things, which are copied at the end of the guideline page. We hope you'll enjoy Jamoma 0.5, and we hope to get some valuable feedback. [Less]