I made a piece with the rebound script, an Aleph with delays and guitar/piano. Experimenting with something rhythmic drifting slightly out of sync to phase the loop speed / lengths.

https://soundcloud.com/lazzarello/fun-games

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Quick sneak preview because I’m feeling pleased with myself…

this is a multitimbral earthsea - just using PolySub for the moment and without the main feature I’m planning for my patch. Not sure if it is clear from the video but all the layers can operate at the same time - it’s not patch switching - might be a clue as to where I am going with this…

Surprising how much you can do in and out of meetings when working remotely :wink:

(I still need to actually learn how to play earthsea mind you - might need to add some guide lighting a la the push2. also must remember the notes don’t respond to vibrato - too much MPE! )

I’d also like to add - so impressed with this little gadget - the possibilities are enormous. Now I’ve worked out how supercollider/lua interact I’m very excited - got a number of projects in mind!

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Grid and Norns arrive her in uk imminently

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more on learning earthsea - I suspect not an issue for guitarists but for keyboard players like myself the grid layout is taking a bit of learning without any visual clues.

as a quick hack to help learning if you go into earthsea in Maiden and add the note_name function and change your redraw function to the below you can get a slightly more helpful display for learning. This probably won’t stay in my script but useful for the moment while I learn my way around the notes…

local notes = {"C","C#","D","Eb","E","F","F#","G","Ab","A","Bb","B"}

function note_name(x,y)
  local note = ((7-y)*5) + x
  return notes[((note-3)%12)+1]
end

function redraw()
  screen.clear()
  screen.aa(0)
  screen.line_width(1)
  local i = 1
  local cnt = 0
  local ln = "Notes:"
  for k,v in pairs(lit) do
    ln = ln .." " .. note_name(v.x,v.y)
    cnt = cnt + 1
    if cnt == 7 then
        screen.move(0,10*i)
        screen.text(ln)
        cnt = 0
        i = i + 1
        ln = "     "
    end
  end
  screen.move(0,10*i)
  screen.text(ln)
  screen.update()
end
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File this under “Why didn’t I think of that?”. Thanks!

@enneff’s rebound + ER-301 and lots of mannequins modules.

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What I’ve been dreaming of is to see a dimly lit button for every root note/octaves on the grid. I find it helps a lot with playing a grid based instrument. Is this a possibility?

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Yes. Would be easy. Have wondered about the same

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I have a Linnstrument which uses a lighting scheme somewhat like that. Definitely makes it easier. It’s like fret marks on a guitar.

The regular earthsea module can do the custom mapping of ‘highlights’. I would imagine on Norns it could get even more sophisticated.

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The new polls study reminded me of this classic:

Was this a widely shared Aleph patch, or something more tailor-made? Curious if we’ll see something along these lines with Norns at some point…

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Apologies for a newbie question.

I have a grid, eurorack, and Digitone setup and wondering if I bought a norns how best to interface them together. Would I also need an Ansible for CV/gate? I have an Expert Sleepers FH-1, could that be used for four channel CV/gate?

Also how to best sync clock across devices,… ?

I would imagine there should be a sleak way to do this but before I drop $ I’d like some input from people.

Thanks in advance.

Yes you need an Ansible (or one of the other discontinued trilogy modules) to interface Grid with eurorack. Ansible has a modular clock input for syncing. As of now Norns does not interact with eurorack, but there is a module forthcoming for that purpose.

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i’m really digging this

on the topic of norns -> modular, does anybody have suggestions for getting norns sound into modular?

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I have been using the ER-301 for bringing sound into my modular. The pre-amp settings make it a breeze :slight_smile:

Edit: in the past I have had good experiences with Mutable Instruments Ears as well.

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I’ve just been using the Intellijel Line In 1u, which has been wonderful.

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Two new norns things I’ve been working on…

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Great work, lovely graphics!

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Wonderful, i really like the gaming like interface. It makes me want to try this path for my own scripts.

Hey man, My monome shipment is currently in customs. How long did you wait till it reached you ?