Approaching: norns

[julio]

I saw a Pi compute for $30 US

[Zedkah]

What do we think the distribution will be like outside the US? Europe and UK specifically in my case?

[unity2k]

Based on @Nordseele and his calculations plus battery and assorted jacks, my guess is that Norns will cost $649.

[Nordseele]

Yes that’s the price, but without the card, then you have to add the components etc…

[Nordseele]

Haha, I’m not making calculations, and yes I forgot the battery, I was just adding my 2 cents but if it’s more, I guess I’ll stay with my complex setup

[myecholalia]

In all honesty, I feel it will be a bit more than all the price guesstimates above. I am assuming it to be more than a grid for sure. Parts is one thing, all the work going into this another, and having sales sustain the albeit small company the next. Personally prepared to pay close to 999 once I have funds together.

[Heath]

In all honesty, I feel it will be a bit more than all the price guesstimates above. I am assuming it to be more than a grid for sure. Parts is one thing, all the work going into this another, and having sales sustain the albeit small company the next.

True, although Critter and Guitari and the other units being compared are also fairly small companies. I too am hoping for the 700-ish price tag.

[ericmoderbacher]

I’m going to need a TARS decal on mine.

[julio]

Assuming it’ll be open source you could probably build it yourself for much less

[naxuu]

The PICO-8 game console / game maker seems like a fun and friendly way to learn Lua.

PICO-8 Fantasy Console

Programming with PICO-8: First Steps

PICO-8 fanzines

Programming in Lua (first edition)

[ModularGrey]

This is great, a logical step. I’m hoping the price is 800 or less. Probably will be an instabuy for me. Wondering if the built in apps will have support for the 256, also support for multiple grids and/or controllers, guess it probably just depends on the app. I feel like this will be great paired with my MPC Live.

[rikrak]

I found Pico-8 was not a good way to get into Lua because it is running a simplified vwrsion of Lua (plus some extra stuff pertaining to 8-bit games).

Also, the coding page of the interface is quite cramped… Maybe that won’t bother me now I love Teletype…

[capogreco]

Bloody nice one. @trickyflemming

I would add:

• cmd + enter executes one line of code,
• or put your code between ( ) to execute it all together,
• cmd + shift + D to search the documentation, or
• cmd + D to search for current selection.

and, importantly, like @trickyflemming mentioned, cmd + . kills all active synths.

SuperCollider comes packaged with a bunch of documentation, including some really good tutorials to get you started. Dive in.

For those who learn better from video (although already linked in the Supercollider tips, Q/A) this also seems like an appropriate moment to recommend Eli Fieldsteel’s SuperCollider Tutorials. They are really good: well-paced, enlightening.

One last thing that I wish someone told me when I was just starting out: if you are interested in live-coding, you will find everything you need by searching for JITLib in the SuperCollider documentation.

[markeats]

definitely caught my attention with the use of supercollider, i have lots of questions but will wait (a little)

[LLK]

I might be dead wrong but I think there’s much much much more pocket pianos out there in the world than there ever was grids or any other monome release for that matter.

[trickyflemming]

For those who learn better from video (although already linked in the Supercollider tips, Q/A) this also seems like an appropriate moment to recommend Eli Fieldsteel’s SuperCollider Tutorials . They are really good: well-paced, enlightening.

D’oh! I really should have mentioned these. Excellent recommendation. This, in my opinion, is the single best resource for starting to learn SC. They’re long videos, but worth it. Videos 0-8 will likely be the most important for Norns. 3, 4, & 5 are the keys for most of SC. 8 is useful if you plan on building anything using samples or recording. After video 8, it dives into MIDI, sequencing, external control, and composition. Depending on how the Lua end of Norns looks, these might not be as critical.

[kin.sventa]

i don’t know the first thing about coding but mlr in a box is all i need to hear. i would be more than happy coping and pasting the work of you cool folks. if it could also send cv into an es-8 i would be overjoyed. how cool would a knobs video with this thing be!??!?!?

[garethlyons]

Me too. The syntax looks similar to teletype I managed to wrap my head around the basics of that. I’m hopping we won’t have to mess around with too much coding unless you really want to customise.

[jah]

Eli Fieldsteel’s SuperCollider Tutorials.

These are great

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[x2mirko]

For anyone wondering: Here is the playlist of the mentioned tutorial videos. Thank you a lot for pointing them out! I just started going through these and they seem very helpful so far.