#272

crazy true

i would have never articulated this point in a discussion of aleph pro/cons but it’s absolutely right

reflecting back…i cant recall crashing my machine while using the PRGM app (except occasionally at startup when i tried to load too many samples from sd)

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#273

paging @lazzarello and anybody else who will soon own both aleph and norns…can we have a conversation here to discuss what we’d like?

i’m excited about how they could be linked to make an even more powerful/flexible system

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#274

I can’t make any promises but given that I do have access to both devices I anticipate exploring this pairing at some point.

My hope post norns release is to shift gears and work on a higher level MIDI processing framework for norns. I have a handful off MIDI devices I’d like to control from norns (including devices wanting to play usb MIDI host like ansible and aleph) so I’m close to pulling the trigger on an iConnectivity mio4 in order to get host <=> host connections working.

MIDI is certainly more limiting that some more direct serial connection but the later requires much more work to get off the ground (not to mention coming up with a design). I know @rick_monster had done a significant amount of work to allow aleph modules to be loaded over its serial connection. My recollection was that he added the ability to manipulate bees to a certain degree as well…

…so I guess in short the stage is set now it is just a matter of sourcing the time to experiment.

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#275

I vaguely recall this and will read up on the old posts on the aleph serial connection

trust me…i don’t take any of your efforts for granted, nor do i consider your observations about these devices as a promise or guarantee

speak freely
i won’t hold you to anything

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#276

I didn’t get in on the first sale but def looking for the next one.

#277

not a priority at all but i found this again while researching

still such a rad proposition

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#278

Hey, I wanted to post this performance video here since it made heavy use of the aleph. I’m playing my new love, the Chapman Stick, into lines. Hope you enjoy.

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#279

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

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#280

agreed20characters!!

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#281

curious now that norns has been out for a few months
do any of you have ideas or feedback regarding using the two devices in tandem?

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#282

Well, I guess I will find out once I buy a norns, which I didn’t manage to do the two previous time there was a preorder… In the meantime I have put a new scene for Grains, for those who want to check it out.

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#283
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#284

A bit of a cross post to a relevant thread.

I got some ciat-lonbarde eurorack modules and hooked them up to the CV inputs and audio outputs of an Aleph with the lines module loaded. Then I recorded a thing.

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#285

i enjoyed this

interested in sharing the scene?

#286

Yeah I’ll post it tonight or tomorrow. The Aleph is making the sounds I’ve been calling “alien fauna”, using the audio inputs as source material.

The scene isn’t super sophisticated. I might be able to get encoders to do more interesting things. I think they act as gain knobs for delay mixer inputs.

#287

@glia This is the scene for the alien fauna sounds. It won’t make much noise without CV going into all four inputs.

cv_line.scn (256.1 KB)

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#288

I have acquired a grid 128 and I finally had the mental moment where I figured out how the tape delay metaphors for the lines module works.

So…I want to build a live looping sequencer where the X axis of the grid is the length of the delay line and each button is 1/16 of the total length. I don’t really know where to start but I’ll be updating and posting stuff here with my progress.

Anyone have a metal footswitch to recommend? I wanna hook up the record controls to some.

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#290

Sorry I am somehow double-posting but anyway… Well I might be able to help in the process if you want to share some of your original ideas there more precisely. Always happy to see new developments for the Aleph!

#291

oh neat. I don’t even know how to upgrade to bees 0.8. Recently I copied a scene to the SD card and it crashed the OLED! It’s scary changing the software.

I should get my build toolchain to run again. I’d prefer to just check out the master branch and compile everything.

#292

update

Whelp, got laid off from another tech job (blockchain downsizing, crypto bubble burst). Poor me. Motivated for more music making and aleph programming.

I went through the cvQuantize tutorial but I could not reproduce it based only on the text. After some hacking, I was able to get something similar and have a scene that takes CV input and produces a diatonic scale based on scale values in a LIST8. Anyhoo…I’d like to start posting issues like these on the github repository as I work through this stuff, just so we have a record of everything. As we know, the dev tooling is the biggest barrier to cool new stuff on this platform.

I can’t say I enjoy the programming experience on Aleph but somehow I’ve built a performance setup using it as a core component (like the final output mixer) which I know is crazy. After this CV tutorial, a whole new dimension hit me for this thing. Just being able to quantize CV values based on scales is like…super cool. Programming CV + DSP is quite rad. Doing the 266fluctuating tutorial tomorrow.

What would be some more interesting studies? I’m leaning towards one on looping delay with the lines module since I’ve done a lot of work with that one. Maybe also something like “storing values while switching presets?” I ran into that problem when I made a bunch of presets with different operator graph connections but the encoders would jump from the previous values when I switched.

@zebra in haven’t forgot about this thread! I’ll be at your show this Wednesday. I promise I won’t harp about Aleph stuff too long. I’ve begun my performance setup and the Aleph is a key component. Working through the weird integer division stuff and the delay lines read speed decimal division.

I got the build toolchain back on my laptop and was able to compile the dev branch. The mix app loaded and now I don’t need the SD card! I’d like to begin porting some of the code from the lines module and bees params/operators to an embedded firmware. It helps that many of my coworkers are compiler experts. Looking forward to more hacking.

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