The Amazing Rolo

shits off the hook

so awesome

THIS TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY! SUPER ORGASMIC!

i'm seriously considering buying a bloody wii because of that very thing you created there. great job!

Wow! Just downloaded it and played around - fantastic! :-)

holy f@cking $hit! Brobot Loves you!!!!!

hey great work. i am not even a musician. It looks great! Really a nice idea. I know some coders and i am thinking about realising it on windows so it would be great if you could contact me because your contact form das not work atm

pgrewer@gmail.com

HOLY CRAP WIKID!

Now, If i was any kind of whiz kid on the code mashing, I'd develop a virtual drum kit that used the two Wii controllers as drum sticks for a virtual Air drum machine that could be linked to trigger drum samples or allow for live midi drum programming by simply waving your arms around. The idea's out there!

I love this technology!

very relaxing music... plus your voice is quite relaxing too, so i just loaded the vid and had it running in the background while i was chilling... thanks for that ;)

nice! great presentation
four thumbs up

Hey, Great Video. About to try the app.
You cannot stretch the page because blogger "may"
want to put up ads?

AMAZING !!!
great job, congratulation from France ;-)

TOF

I can't get it to work. Somehow, I can't make my Wiimote pair with my Powerbook 17 inch and I use the latest OS version (10.4.9). The system finds the Bluetooth signal, but can't connect with it.

Can somebody give me some hints on how to get it to work?

Incredible job and great performance! That software of yours makes for a great live performance indeed. You need more squarepusher beats though :). This software is definetly the best use of the wiimote I have seen by far.

I may have to attempt to set this up myself now!

hmmm a couple of people have had trouble connecting. I'm not really sure what the problem could be...maybe try pairing the wiimote with your computer by pressing the red sync button next to the batteries? That may help. I'll try and look into it.

Thanks for all the great comments, I'm glad people are enjoying it!

Please please make a Windows version! This looks great, but I am Mac-less.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G work!!!
really awesome, can't wait to give it a try.
and pretty funny video too... ;)

wahhh windows version plox!

This is so cool, Yann! You never cease to amaze me!

This looks awesome! Great job, love it!

Well, actually something really weird happens during the pairing process if you're using an older Mac (PPC).

It says it recognizes the Wiimote and finishes the process as with any Bluetooth device you connect.

The problem arises when it's finished, the Wiimote disappears from the list of other Bluetooth devices. This problem has also been reported on Wiili.org. It has to do something with the software internally.

it happens also with my 1st gen intel...
i'm going crazy...
how did u connect to your wii EXACTLY??? T__T

This is a fantastic idea and it worked great with my macbook. A couple of suggestions for the app....

I was messing around with the noise generator and would get a pitch I liked and switch to another loop with the z button pressed so the noise would stay, but when I switch the other loop it automatically signals the z button command on the second loop. This is especially inconvienent when I've got the granulate function turned on and where I like it, but when I switch back to that loop it turns off.

Another suggestion, it would be nice to be able to trigger a loop while working on another loop (by pressing the 1 button I guess) and just have it play once (or have it loop until you press 1 again) Like a sound clip of a person speaking that could be triggered no matter where you currently are in the program.

Really nice! But maybe you should ask a designer to redesign the user interface..

If I'm not mistaken, this is the same concept as the Kaoss pad that was released by Korg about 5-7 years ago? Cool idea no less though!

I can't decide whether it sounds like crap because of the unsuitability of the interface, or because of your lack of musical ability. But it's great for making annoying noises.

That's great! The interface is a liiittle messy, but that's easily fixed, once somebody good at that kinda thing offers to do one for you!

My one suggestion would be, add some elements of user-defineable modules, so for instance if I wanted to have one section do a delay and another do a phasing function, I could program that into the software. I can't wait to incorporate this into live performances!

Good job!

Using a Powerbook G4 running 10.4.9 -- I can't get the file to unzip. It unzips to a hidden, temporary folder, and when I unhide it and run the app, Finder says it may be corrupt and won't run it. :( It looks really cool, though, and the video presentation is very well done. Congratulations!

lol that is so cool. good work!

WOW! That is freakin' hot!
MUCH RESPECT!

ant

Hats off to you, sir! Very well done indeed, and thank you, very much, for sharing this wonderful tool/toy.

I have no idea about the background, since I'm no web designer.

But an old trick is: if you can, put some extra space at the end of your page, so the last posting gets the background. Empty/blank area will render fast anyway I suppose...

This empty area at the end may get no background... but it will be less of a problem.

Ryan, was the Korg controller wireless? This one is. How much was the Korg? This is something many already own. Also, I don't think it's that expensive to just buy a wii remote on it's own. (A quick search reveals retail prices to be between $30 and $50.)

Has anyone heard anything about the rumored wii remote gloves? Or is that just a wet dream?

That's a pretty sweet toy you've worked out there for musicians. I would love to see a YouTube video if anyone ever actually uses this for a live performance.

I just checked out the Korg Kaoss that Ryan mentioned. Looks very impressive, but the current version, the KP-3, runs around $400. I have a motorcycle, and thus cannot afford such a toy. =) I suppose someone else will say they are a musician and thus cannot afford a frivolity like a motorcycle.

Thanks again for all the support, this has been totally overwhelming!

Some people are definitely having trouble connecting, although they all seem to be for different reasons. Over the next few days I'll try and fix everything and make a more obvious tutorial on pairing the wii with your computer. I'm also going to try and get a windows version asap. I just need to find a windows computer with Max/MSP!

I don't quite understand the Kaoss pad comparison...I love the kaoss pad, I find it to be a wonderful tool in many ways, and it's far far more powerful than my software. But the functions are entirely different, it's a sampler that manipulates sound through touch, whereas my loop machine is a player that manipulates sound through movement. two different tools, I would say! It might be cool to use both at once, one hand on the kaoss and one on the wiimote.

Your singing voice sounds very much like Serge Gainsbourg!

The background does not extend to the bottom of the page because the div with the id "blogbody" has style set to "height: 4000px;" - basically, the box that all the content is in actually stops partially through the comments. The comments overflow, but the background is only as tall as the box. To fix this, you should just be able to delete "height: 4000px;" from the line

<div id="blogbody" class="blogbody" style="height: 4000px; border-top: 2px solid #000;">

Cant really read all the comments...hopefully this will get through the fog of it: Use HTML as a tag (instead of body) and apply the background to it.

I installed your software and had lots of fun with it loading my own loops. I definitely want to see future versions. Keep up the good work.

I'd love to figure out how to port this to linux. If only I could afford a Wii.

Great work man!

Frigging amazing. I'll be trying this out over the weekend. Looks like you just managed to make a "game" worth switching my Wii back on for, great job, thank you! So much for intending to spend the time on my new ps3, making beats is way more satisfying.

Really nice work! I love seeing creative usage of technology. But damm you tho Im gonna have to buy a Wii... oh and a Mac! A linux version would also be very Zen.

Keep up the good work.

Roj

Off the hook!

i am so in love with you right now

too bad i don't play video games :-(

Amazing work. Off the wall I say, revolution to electronic music concerts for a very affordable price.
THANKS!!

Is anyone's remote just vibrating like nuts? Mine seems to go and won't stop whenever I use the loop at the top.

http://theamazingrolo.blogspot.com/2007/03/wii-loop-machine.html

hehehe the vibrating feature is definitely overkill and doesn't work how it should. the idea is that it should vibrate just a touch at the sync point for the loops, but it doesn't seem to work well. i'm gonna fix it in version 1.1.

that is unbelievable!

and the beat is pretty hot too...great work homie

i can't get it to work. I can connect to darwiinremote. But then it doesn't work in the looping app. How can i get it to work? I read the other comments.

Owh, BTW i have a Mac Mini Intel 1,83

Tight,,,so very very tight!! Good work man!! Now I will get tennis elbow from mixing lol.

yes!

Thanks for the gay post kotik.
This shit is Gay with a capital G and completely useless. I don't know why you'd waste your time creating such a useless program. So you could sit in your room and dance around making the beat sound wack while you flail your arms? Wow yeah dude thats DOPE! Off the hook! lol fuck that. shit is gay & all you little homos riding nerd boys jock need a jailhouse ass reaming.

=) one.

Hello,

En français puisque tu maitrises la langue:-)
C'est du super boulot et cela ouvre de nouvelle voie pour le live performance

SUPERRRRRRRRR

just because you like a good jail house ass reaming charlie truth tella doesn't mean its right for everyone.

I'm very impressed with the wii remote application, not seen it before but I'm sure there will be a lot of copy cats.
very entertaining video too!

man i wish there was some way to make this a more universal-type MIDI controller that i could use with reason or ableton. where movement would edit control parameters on the soft synth modules/sequences like cutoff, etc. not very practical or efficient i guess but it would be sweet for live shows!

^
i was thinking the same thing about sending midi date so i can control some stuff in reason, that would be fun!

amazingrolo! I saw you linked on engadget and remembered that I haven't been to em411 in a while. Hope you're doing well! Looks like you've made an amazing tool here. keep up the good work!

AWSOMEEEEE!!!!!

Cool, not as cool as Michel Waisvisz's Hands but cool for a bit of loop gimmickery.
Well done.

For those having trouble getting their wiimote connecting I would recommend this writeup:

http://max.iamas.ac.jp/2061/articles/121.html

That said, I can't get the program working either. I get an error in the status window:
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultCell.pct
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultBkgnd.pct
aka.wiiremote 1.0B5-UB by Masayuki Akamatsu
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultCell.pct
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultBkgnd.pct

Please help, i'm dying to play with this!

A cool idea for future versions would be to utilize the onboard microphone to create loops on the fly. PLEASE SOMEONE, I'M IN SERIOUS NEED OF A WINDOWS VERSION OF THIS!

Lol. this is great stuffs dude. consider me flicking my wrist while typing this comment. im so happy i got a wii =]

you sort of sound like a super laid back mc solaar

this is amazing.

OMG, That was freaked out and small, compliments, thnx for the inspiration, awesome work!!

As soon as i find a friggin place that sells Wii's i'm def gonna grab this, looks like so much fun, especially for us kidzzz!

very awesome of you to offer up this up to everyone

peace and good luck

stevo25

sympa le ptit air et la chansson ; )
wiiii j'en ai enviiiiie !

Hey, sorry to cause all the confusion with the Kaoss Pad. I realize that the Kaoss is spendier, wired, and not something that everyone has at home, however I was just trying to add to the conversation. The point I was adding is that the Kaoss pad can be setup in such a way to manipulate samples and edits much in the same way as your Wii remote. I figured if people found the Wii remote to be a good idea, and wanted something along the same vein (ie a machine that can manipulate both midi/sample functions on an X and Y spectrum) then thats what Korg has for them. Also, in this thread some have brought up that they would like your Wii remote available for other programs like Ableton/Reason etc etc. The Kaoss pad does manipulate user defined parameters(Both midi and audio) in those programs. I have seen it practically implemented by the likes of electronic composing virtuoso BT (GO check out his stuff!) and it was sick. So with that said, once again, your Wii remote is an awesome idea and its a great thing for people to have to play with that already have Wii consoles. As for performing musicians like myself, that like this idea and are searching for a piece of equipment with similar functions - then you are looking for the Kaoss pad. Simply put. Sorry for the confusion, keep up the good work!

interesting, but so so pointless

fuckin ace
vision and the riddle

This software is amazing. It would be great if you could have it support two Wii remotes, or one Wii remote + nunchuk.

Top class!

I gonna tell all my producer mates about this. Excellent!

Excellent !
Je l'essaye tout de suite !
Et merci pour tout ce travail :-)

This is literally the coolest thing I've ever seen.

I intend on using this to perform live... going to chop up some drum and bass (jungle) as suggested and will be the first Wii-P.A. performer. :D

Big up.

P.S. Contact me if you desire.

awesome idea - could the s/ware be modded to control a quartz composition / or CoreAnimation in leopard - it would be incredible to extend it to an A/V experience - 2nd Wii remote for VJ...?

Montag, I think extending this concept into the visual realm is a fantastic idea. Since I built this in Max/MSP it would make sense to do video manipulation in Jitter (which could also be responding to the sound, rather than just the Wii data). Another cool way would be to send OSC out to Quartz Composer to generate open GL graphics, but that's a different universe for me! If anyone wants to work on something like that definitely let me know.

Ryan, thanks for clarifying all of that! The Kaoss pad is definitely an awesome performance tool.

DJ Whatthebleep - I'd love to hear audio or see video of you using this software in concert!

Thanks again for all of the continuing support. I hope to have a version 1.1 available in a few weeks.

Et merci à tout les francophones! n'hésitez pas de m'envoyer des mails en français.

I saw Feist using a loop machine to get the baseline, melody and then perform a great song. I'm thinking i would love to see her playing with your loop machine, well is there a mic on the wiimote? :D

awesome !

you've just been featured at studiotoolz !

Would love to see a WinXP version!!

this would be the only reason I would by a Wii!

a. doubleyou. e. ess. o. emm. e.

Hey totally cool work u have dere! wud love to see the code, perhaps would like to work on it or improve on it further (its already very impressive) or realising the windows version

can contact me @ Javernkan@yahoo.com

ça claque le cul mon pote !!!!
c'est inutile mais carrement superbe j'ai presque envie de me payer un WII

C'est tout simplement fantastique.
De trés loin la meilleure utilisation que j'ai pu trouver pour ma Wiimote!!

Vraiment Génial,

Enfin une utilisation créatives de cette technologie !

Bravo !

I really want to use this. Did everything i could to sync up my remote, but still get this:

• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultCell.pct
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultBkgnd.pct
aka.wiiremote 1.0B5-UB by Masayuki Akamatsu
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultCell.pct
• error: matrixctrl: can't find file MatrixDefaultBkgnd.pct

Anyone got any advice

That error message (the matrixctl one) is a bug, but shouldn't effect the pairing or the use of the software at all. Follow the directions on this page very carefully to pair your wiimote with your computer before launching the loop machine:
http://max.iamas.ac.jp/2061/articles/121.html

Or try using Darwiin Remote:
http://blog.hiroaki.jp/2006/12/000433.html

Hope that helps!

Si seulement tu pouvais faire la même chose pour Windows ou Linux, je n'ai pas les moyens de m'acheter un Mac Book Pro...

Do you have to have Max/MSP to use this?
Can you use it to send generic MIDI messages or control other software?

PowerBook G4 user here: using the instructions under Bluetooth setup, my computer now recognizes my remote. However, when i open up the looping program and press 1 + 2, I am still not able to control it. I tried using Darwiin Remote, but when that program is running, the loop station still doesn't recognize remote. The DarwiinRemote allows me to control my mouse and click on things, but even when the LoopingMachine is open, the buttons still function as they are assigned in DR(i.e. "1" is "Mouse on") anyway to get around this? I have a feeling I'm close, since my computer recognizes the remote and allows me to control the mouse with Darwiin,

very interesting dude, enjoyed it.

That is amazing, please could you port this to PC, I have a Wii and I love using my Wiimote on my PC.

How cool is that!!???!!!

I see the future where DJs will load and mix their records on the fly with Wiimotes!

You are clearly a musical-developer combination god!

I'm at the stage of connected and darwinwiimote is up OK. But wiiloopmachine does nothing (not even if I click around with a mouse, other than select tracks... should it play if I click on the radiobuttons?)

Anyway, one thing I noted in Bluetooth setup is that I'm connected but not paired. Is that a problem?

Nice video, Not quite as cool as that kid on YouTube though!

am i getting this right: there's no