Approaching: norns

[MUNINN]

My 3 years old brother approaches norns for the first time

[Scarred_Archimedes]

Had that exact setup happening yesterday w/ my 4YO son. Minilab --> Molly the Polly. He loved the orbiting celestial bodies look.

[delineator]

Had similar setup with 7YO, Artiphon Orba --> Molly the Polly.

Also 7YO composed a song in MuseScore, while listening to composition audio with Tunnels delay:

[abozzelli]

Buy a Compute Module 4 – Raspberry Pi

CM4 is out and has different connector
Will there be a way to use it with Norns through a sort of adapter?

[Rodrigo]

I was about to post that.

That’s a bit of a kick in the dick (not specifically for norns, but for people/companies that designed things around the form factor).

Here’s a hack-a-day article with some more info:

New Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module: So Long SO-DIMM, Hello PCIe!

Knowing nothing about this kind of stuff, I imagine this would be hard to adjust for since the mechanical connectors are massively different.

[tehn]

ughhh. thanks for posting.

[carltesta]

Yeah, that’s a bummer, I’ve been holding out for the new compute module before upgrading my first-gen norns.

Edited to add:
This might be promising?

Gumstix Raspberry Pi CM4 Uprev

[Rodrigo]

A big thing would be if that kind of room is available. From when I opened up my norns to go to an CM3+, it didn’t look especially spacious, but if the I/O can be converted that offers a bit of hope at least.

[Fuzzypickles]

Hey everyone, I am looking at getting norns and grid at some point in the not so distant future. Other than the tutorials that are on this website are there any other detailed tutorials that would help in both the learning of the language of norns, but also how to get the most out of these two devices?

[dan_derks]

hey hey! good timing! we just spoke today about a set of videos to get folks acclimated to the system. what sort of specific things (or specific general mystery) are you hoping to see tutorials about?

[tyleretters]

the norns study group meets saturdays! come hang out: Discord Norns Study Group

[eigen]

Also check out awesome-monome-norns.

The app list section will give you an overview of what is available out of the box. You can see which apps benefit from using a grid in the Apps by I/O section. It’s not complete but about 90% of existing apps are listed.

If you want to dip your toe into lua programming, a list of useful resources are listed.

@dan_derks video tutorial are a very good idea. Some people seem to learn better in this format.

[license]

I dig your username. I used this for one of my norns scripts

[Fuzzypickles]

I’m not too sure really, a combination of just getting started with existing scripts that the community uses a lot and random intuitive uses of the tech. Possible elaboration on how to modifier to our own taste

Similar to how dude837 made his max tutorials, he started with making really basic patches and then with each new video he built upon what new thing the previous one brought. Which made learning max a lot more accessible

[dan_derks]

excellent suggestions!

@Fuzzypickles

Possible elaboration on how to modifier to our own taste

perhaps too specific, but this was a fun session: https://vimeo.com/443211372

[delineator]

I was wondering if there were any studies
or script examples exploring micro-tuning
or different intonations? I’m pretty new to
norns so sorry if its an obvious question.

Pitfalls is a library I’m writing for exploring microtonal scales. You use Ls notation to define scales. More details here: Pitfalls

[Zifor]

Any plans to run the pi 4 compute module in the future? I assume there would need to be a motherboard redesign if you did (the header connections).

[imwaiting]

hello friends,

i have recently discovered monome norns and am waiting for the norns shield to restock this month to purchase it and I had a question.

can i run multiple programs on norns at once? say i want to use reels with a synth and a delay/reverb. is that possible with just norns?

thank you for your help!

much love

[corpusjonsey]

You can only run one script at a time, but there is the “tape” recorder always available to record the output of the script.

[DoS]

You can also route various playing sources through the built-in reverb and compressor; so you could have a synth playing through the reverb, a tape playing separately and an external input as well - and they could be routed to the reverb and then compressor as desired too.