Approaching: norns

jlmitch5 · 2018-07-10T02:46:40.564Z

I am certainty willing to get a Grid, but could a person make due and love Norns without first?

First 3 norns studies are non-grid. Some of the current scripts in dust require grid (MLR, Glut), some have enhancements with a grid (Earthsea looper features use grid, but you can plug in any midi controller).

I didn’t have a grid and wanted to get both at the same time because of the kinds of concerns you are asking about. I think it wasn’t as important to have both as I initially thought it would be (though it is still very useful and very fun!)

kburwash · 2018-07-10T02:53:14.383Z

How do other midi controllers hook up? USB only?

jlmitch5 · 2018-07-10T02:56:39.792Z

yes–you’d need some sort of usb → midi adapter if your controller just has 5 pin din.

same kinds of stuff applies I think to this post and the next few in that thread.

Norns: help Monome

a midi controller you can connect, since its a usb device. (or at least should be, though it should normally have usb b, or one of the mini usb … not usb a) you cannot connect a laptop . since both the norns and laptop are usb hosts. on the Organelle (similar issue, its a usb host) we found a really cool (and cheap) dongle, usb host to host converter, which works brilliantly http://compasflamenco.com/midi-c-3/midi-usbusb-p-4.html apart from that you could go to your computer via midi din (w…

zebra · 2018-07-10T04:53:48.904Z

kburwash:

I am certainty willing to get a Grid, but could a person make due and love Norns without first?

certainly yes in my opinion

enneff · 2018-07-10T05:51:47.141Z

FWIW I am very excited about norns as a stand-alone device, and look forward to writing some interesting tools that can be used without any accessories.

joostoftoday · 2018-07-10T13:11:15.933Z

Beautiful! Cheers from Bremen

glia · 2018-07-10T13:47:10.287Z

kburwash:

but could a person make due and love Norns without first?

depends on your style and preference
all the apps i use most (playfair, glitchlooper, cranes, plus all the playfair mods) are samplers that don’t require a grid

i also use mlr from time to time but, surprisingly, find myself drawn to the others when i have time to play

Olivier · 2018-07-10T13:49:08.806Z

Glitchlooper? Cranes?! What have I missed?!?

dani_derks · 2018-07-10T13:51:22.180Z

Olivier:

Cranes?!

wrapping up testing with great gratitude to a few folks spending time with it. will be pushed to a gist soon!

glia · 2018-07-10T13:51:59.771Z

wonderful apps by @carltesta and @dani_derks

glia · 2018-07-10T16:09:25.065Z

Olivier:

Glitchlooper?

for the curious
https://qiplu.bandcamp.com/album/glep

it’s a barebones 5 buffer glitching looper but I love it to death

doomglue · 2018-07-10T17:11:12.244Z

Just got my norns today. But no time to play today. This looper sounds fun. Very nice tracks here. Oval-ish Sounds.

trickyflemming · 2018-07-10T17:53:15.307Z

Nice! I clicked that just to listen to a snippet, but I ended up listening to the whole EP.

It’s exciting that norns is already at a point where you can make standalone pieces like these. It’s also exciting that I get to sit down, read the engine code, and learn more SuperCollider simultaneously.

Looking forward to the public releases, @dani_derks and @carltesta!

swhic · 2018-07-10T17:54:56.495Z

nice work

trickyflemming · 2018-07-10T18:05:00.771Z

I was thinking about my experience remixing Glut and Spacetime for the latest Dust release, and that gave me an idea.

For a future LCRP or similar, it would be cool to pass around a minimal Lua script. There would be a separate thread specifically with help for implementing code ideas specific to this project. Each person then submits their own remix of the script, all of which would show up in one folder on Dust.

I suppose if there’s too much worry about unstable/unrefined/unfinished scripts clogging up Dust, we could spin it off into a separate repo.

anon45924993 · 2018-07-10T18:07:18.521Z

trickyflemming:

I was thinking about my experience remixing Glut and Spacetime for the latest Dust release, and that gave me an idea.

For a future LCRP or similar, it would be cool to pass around a minimal Lua script. There would be a separate thread specifically with help for implementing code ideas specific to this project. Each person then submits their own remix of the script, all of which would show up in one folder on Dust.

I suppose if there’s too much worry about unstable/unrefined/unfinished scripts clogging up Dust, we could spin it off into a separate repo.

I love this idea! Next remix edition of LCRP wouldn’t be until March if we follow the schedule. But there’s the norns compilation that I admit I’ve kind of stalled on organizing. But now I know why, it was so that this idea could bubble up! Let’s do it!

I like the idea of submitting scripts to dust after the compilation is complete. gist or a new repo would be a great way to organize WIP.

I can create new repos in the monome-community org. What would we call it?

kburwash · 2018-07-10T19:04:07.445Z

^^^^ this is also of interest to me!

emenel · 2018-07-10T19:05:38.492Z

At the moment there is no direct connection between Norns and modular (or anything voltage controlled).

There is a module in development called Crow that will offer this, but there is no real info about it yet or a timeline.

Right now Norns speaks midi, so you could use a midi>cv module to integrate the two… but that’s about it.

_opial · 2018-07-10T20:12:01.053Z

i thought so, thanks for confirming. will make do with midi.

are you referring to the rumoured mannequins module?

bookmil · 2018-07-10T21:05:02.114Z

yes, a collaboration, it’s alluded to earlier in this thread

Approaching: norns Monome

[norns_crow] many tomorrows tomorrow is may 3. thank you for your patience and participation in this unfolding story. i’m hoping it created a deeper understanding of our motivations along with the capabilities and the future potential of norns. yes, tomorrow we’ll open a pre-order for the first 100 devices. $800. 1pm EST. we’ll be able to ship this initial run around may 22— there will be lots of building, testing, and packing until then. once the first 100 of norns are spoken for we will …