#1764

Question: Will there be a list of “Monome Tested and Approved” user-provided scripts? My understanding is that those scripts that make their way into dust will magically get synchronized to my norns, but I also anticipate there will be a portfolio of other scripts that aren’t part of the core distro but which are available for use. These are the ones that I’m hoping will pass through some sort of QA gauntlet.

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#1765

i sympathize with your fear but two points

  • little if anything we do at user-script level will bust your norns (lol…the english language)

  • pull requests on github are approved by those with write access like @tehn

also it’s unlikely that a member of our community would share a broken script OR that you download and run it w/o seeing evidence that it works, right?

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#1766

Seconded. I’m writing some scripts right now and wish we had a “Testing/testers” group of some sort. Could served as the “Tested” part of “Monome Tested and Approved.”

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#1767

i would be happy to test!

dm me or post in the scripting thread with some sort of beta warning for other adventurers

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#1768

Not every member of this community pays close attention to the daily ins-and-outs of script performance, and while I know no member would share something broken, Mistakes Do Happen. Reducing the frequency and severity of errors - which leads to a reduction in support contacts - is the magic that even a di minimis QA process brings.

I am completely confident something like this will come out in the wash, but it would be helpful to be transparent in the docs about the process for how scripts move from concept to release candidate, especially as the Nornish Tribes increase both in number and ranges of technical capability.

(I thank you)

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#1769

Added that concern to this thread, where it probably makes more sense to discuss:

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#1770

No reason that that couldn’t be done as part of the pull request. It might be useful to have some community members who were willing to take that on monitor the pull requests and comment that things were working to take some of the workload off the core developers. I’d certainly offer to help in that regard, but need to get my hands on a Norns first!

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#1771

Yah this is what PRs and approval are about. We’re hashing out contribution guide

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#1772

Yay! Much needed. …

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#1773

starting point is already on the bottom half of the README: https://github.com/monome/dust

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#1774

hey yall, i am going to log out of lines for probably about a week.

been tryin to answer a lot of questions here since norns release. this is something i can do in the cracks of my day job. but it still takes time, and want to actually put in some serious work on norns development instead. so i won’t be seeing mentions or replies for a bit.

that’s all

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#1775

Ive done a video which shows how a push 2 could be used in conjunction with Norns.
see here , around 7:00 is the ‘native mode’ which might be interesting to Norns users.

(I won’t include inline, as its running on a PI, so perhaps is OT here, but I think the native mode is on-topic, as demonstrates how other hardware can be integrated with the Norns hardware - and I think might be missed on the norns on rpi topic)

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#1776

20 characters of awesomeness!

#1777

Nice! Is it just the source material, or do I notice a lot less clicks at the beginning of each loop (like there are zero-crossings set ahead of time or high attack)?

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#1778

given the clickiness, I’ve been careful to start and stop recording with silence (or near silence) on the input. this is pretty easy, as I’m playing piano into norns.

I’ve also done a few drone experiments with mlr and in those instances I just quickly or slowly raise the input volume from 0 after recording starts.

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#1779

Quick q re. long-term availability. It takes me a super long time to save up for things, is norns expected to be available after the 3rd batch? I want one really bad but have a long way to go.

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#1780

Inspired by the photo @heath posted above of norns sitting on the nord…there’s some fun open space on the faceplate for some sort of controller to perch, maybe some faders?

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#1781

the idea is for them to be “in stock” once these initial sell-out batches are shipped

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#1782

First longer form recorded thing with norns (though, disclaimer, a bit of a mess clipping-wise). I love glut, it is really fun for building samples on top of each other that are loosely connected rhythmically but not locked to a rigid grid. awake is also a pretty powerful sequencer even though it looks deceptively pretty basic–the samples used were a tape recording from that.

I wish I would have had those faders I had mocked up above–scrolling through the parameter list and updating volume settings for the various samples is not the most performance-friendly way of mixing sounds, hah.

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#1783

I don’t imagine a Korg nanoKontrol is small enough for the space you mocked up, but maybe worth having one off of the surface.

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