#236

Hmm, I wonder about an Overbridge-like setup where it could stream audio over wifi or USB into VST plugins. Mostly because I’m running out of analog inputs on my audio interface :thinking:

#237

This would be rather amazing actually even with the simplest UI to just get audio via usb, it would make so much sense with the battery powered standalone aspect, you take it on the road, you jam and create and the you bring all this back in your DAW in a few clicks. But I don’t think it’s that straightforward a functionality to add sadly so right now I’m just very happy with what it is :slight_smile:

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#238

Absolutely fascinated by the design. So much peripheral support, plus the ability for custom controllers… damn.

#239

Me too! Im wondering how feasible it would be to re-purpose my maschine jam to work with norns. Or even using the ipad with Lemur, i never really gelled with it controlling the daw this could be different.

#240

Yessssss so stoked this is in the world now. I want like 3 of them chained together

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#241

sound

in order:

  • super-parameterized polysynth by @zebra
  • old-akai-style sampler by @jah
  • simple percussive polysynth by @tehn
  • classic outerspace noise by james mccartney
  • multitrack granulator by @artfwo

norns has two sides: control scripts and sound engines.

  • the script chooses which sound engine to use. and decides what to do with key and knob input and midi notes and grids. and then considers what to draw on the screen or start a sequencer. and tell the sound engine what to do. (1) or how to sound.

  • the sound engine tells the script what parameters it has and what kind of analysis data it produces.

it’s a bit like a plugin in a DAW. except here the DAW is the language lua, and the plugin is the entire supercollider environment. (2)

both scripts and and sound engines are customizable. engines are reusable across different scripts. everything can get modified at runtime. supercollider has a huge library of generators (all the oscillators, filters, noise, transformers, crispers, sparklers, splappers) with which to assemble stuctures. (3)

and of course both scripts and sound engines live in an already-growing community repository.(4) we’ll talk more about code later.

norns makes ________ sound. what shall we ask?

(1) asks nicely.
(2) there was a hint earlier in this post.
(3) scripts and engines communicate via a defined OSC protocol so it’s perfectly possible to use a different dsp application, though we’re committed to exploring sc further for now.
(4) some of the engines in the video above i hadn’t even seen until this morning!

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#242

can multiple scripts run at the same time? can they influence each other?

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#243

that sounds rrrrrrrreally nice!

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#244

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#245

So supercollider is the sound engine and Lua scripts are the controls. So technically we can write control scripts for any type of usb device?

#246

So organelle = Pure Data
norns = Supercollider

?

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#247

I guess I finally have to learn supercollider?

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#248

This is awesome. So one could use it to run Max?

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#249

I wonder if it uses an existing open source Lua<->Supercollider bridge, or something new? If the former, it’d be cool to know more about it so we could go ahead and start writing code and getting practice…

#250

I’ll leave this here

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#251

Just as soon as you convince ableton/cycling to support Linux :wink:

Pd for sure though, presumably

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#252

I wasn’t sure about this new thing but learning that sound engines are supercollider feels pretty exciting now.

Can we do sc coding on the device or at least make changes to engines, using the norns display. Or is this the part to use teh browser on the computer for and transfer it to norns when the engine is finished.

Practicing norns could fill my daily time on the train, travelling to work, which would be great.

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#253

Excellent point :sweat_smile:

#254

i wonder if something like @yaxu’s tidalcycles could live in norns…

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#255

little side note: organelle also runs supercollider thanks to the incredible works of @TheTechnobear (also several MI sound engines and monome grid apps btw, open source ftw!)

re this… I’m less inclined to dive into SC right now, but the beauty of this design is I don’t have to if I don’t need to. Lua scripting own apps for the device… over wifi… that screen… plus all the connectivity… yummy.

I wonder about current draw on the usb port. can it power a monome from battery too??

the more I hear about norns the more I like it

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