#515

Long live the beard.

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#516

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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 re-open ordering for the second run of 100 devices but these will ship later, likely late june. we’ve spent substantial effort on manufacturability and intend to meet demand over time.

norns software will evolve rapidly in the first months. i’ve only just gotten to enjoy it creatively over the last few weeks— prior to that it’s been engineering fever. i’m very excited to make new things to share in the future, but here are some scripts that will ship with the device:

  • mlr (with grid support) — looper shown in the first video
  • some non-grid auto-mlr-ish sample proccesor
  • various ways to control the polysynth
  • asynchronous looper(s)
  • granulator (with grid and not-grid interface)
  • live step sequencer (including non-grid ER mode)
  • variations on kria and earthsea
  • drone machine with a bunch of parameters

yes, most of these are very loosely defined. part of this is because variations are so easy, and variation is good. (1)

what else is new? (2)

may 8 (next tuesday) we’ll be at commend in NYC from 5-8pm. we’ll have several norns for you to play with and there will be some short music performances at 7pm.

more questions?

i’ll do my best to fully address questions posted here— thank you again for your patience.

the other new thing is called crow. it’s a collaboration with mannequins (@galapagoose). it’s 2hp, 2in / 4out (bipolar) with USB device input. it’s chainable (internally) and has i2c. norns (and other computers) will use it to speak CV, but it also speaks lua itself and can take itself on its own adventures. it’ll be ready in a few months.

…

thank you for all of the “norns is _____” responses. this community is a bright light.

norns is many tomorrows. (3)

(the end and the beginning they are the same.)

(1) some of you likely remember the days with numerous customized variations of mlr.
(2) monome.org got a restyling, live tomorrow. thank you joel (@iamkiyn)!
(3) norns is a new thing? tomorrow is a new day? a new day is a new thing? is it?

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Crow -- dreaming of
New thing! (derail this thread? impossible!)
Norns (or similar embedded device) with CV control?
Crow -- dreaming of
Crow -- dreaming of
#517

precisely
it has vanished due to sparse speculation (over the last couple months)
it will start coming back in with this new crop
of nornsense

#518

Googles:

  • 800 dollars in GBP
  • 1pm EST in BST
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#520

Don’t forget the 20% VAT :disappointed:

#521

and shipping! (20 chars)

#522

Will it be a deposit up front, or full amount? Thanks for this. I’m really excited about Norns.

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#523

not a deposit-- full payment. US ship free. int’l $40. yes, keep in mind VAT/duty. shipped USPS priority.

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#524

oh damn i love crow’s design adherence. beautiful work t + b!

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#525

1,066 in AUD

3 AM in Sydney (groan)

Surely 100 won’t sell out in 12 hours, so I can get one when I wake up???

Big question for me is do I sell my TT+Ansible+TXi+TXo? I’m very much thinning my collection of modules so I can become more focused and productive, and there feels like a fair amount of overlap here, or will be eventually when the norns community has built up some more script magic.

Or maybe norns+crows+TT+ansible+TXi+TXo (!!!) can do things in combo I haven’t even though of yet.

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#526

Any reason not to open a pre-order for however many devices get pre-ordered? Not a criticism, just curious.

#527

i ordered components based on estimated immediate demand (which i may or may not have gotten wrong, we’ll see) and those parts had a lead time. this is how we’re able to have a 3 week ship time. if i set production moving after preorder then there’d be a 8-10 week leadtime, like how most kickstarters work.

that said, we can follow up another batch quickly if there’s demand.

(the other limiting factor is that monome is 2 people, we do all the assembly/testing… we’ll get help if needed).

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#528

Are any going to dealers? Like Control?

#529

we’ll be selling this direct only.

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#530

You had me at asynchronous looper(s).

I wonder how fast these 100 units will go. Minutes, seconds, less … We’ll see.

#531

The birds that norns love? :slight_smile:

I think I’m going to hold off on Norns and see how things evolve with it (and with my own setup). But a tiny module that is scriptable and bridges USB, i2c and CV is of immediate interest to me :white_check_mark:

Also somewhat amused at the synchronicity, given that Birdkids just announced a thing called “CROW Intelligence” which seems to be a patchable MIDI/CV controller/converter/sequencer/modulation source. Something in the air (maybe it’s crows).

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#532

very excited to work on some shnth control patches to share!

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#533

Norns is waiting, just around the bend.

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#534

Profoundly excited. Love monome

#535

I hoped you wouldn’t say that.
Import duties in Italy make it really expensive to buy something like that from outside of EU

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