Approaching: norns

[papernoise]

I’m just gonna leave these here…

You forgot to add a top shot of the grid

Also…

[sam]

is there an sc realization of bytebeat ?

So… the more I think about this the more I think I can build one myself.

Either by taking advantage of the BetaBlocker UGen, or by writing my own simple stack only VM.

The language parsing to opcodes can be done in sclang, probably as Polish notation (a la Forth / Teletype) to start with. AFAIK infix notation to Polish notation is a mechanical translation.

In a lot of respects, the problems that need solving are the exact same ones I was working with on the Teletype firmware.

I’ll ruminate some more on it, but if I’m still minded to take it on I’ll start a new thread to brainstorm.

IIRC, I think I might have been the one to mention BitWiz / bytebeats to @tehn first (in the context of using a Teletype and a TelexO to make them).

[emenel]

[TheTechnobear]

Orac

Its open source, and might give users some interesting things, out of the box.

It would be quite easy to change the Organelle display over to the Norns oled/encoder.
It’s parameter system is broadcast over OSC, so perhaps links up with the LUA layer, already runs on the rPI, just needs PD to run really.

Sorry not been following this thread in detail, been a bit busy, but technically Id envisage it as fairly straight-forward.

also i think it can be symbiotic relationship…
modules could be exchanged/developed between norns and other platforms
rPI development on orac could be boosted, e.g. Ive plans on how to make it multi-core, ‘norns developers’ could help if they wanted.

I can’t concretely port Orac to Norns (cant afford one ), but Id be willing to help/support the effort, if its contributed back into the Orac code base.

anyway, lots of ideas around Norns for now, so just one to chuck into the pot for perhaps future consideration.

[mateo]

Rhodia pads are the best!

[tehn]

really great project! fulfills a hugely missing feature for embedded linux sound instruments.

re: running on norns, probably wouldn’t be complicated. i don’t know much about organelle, but if the screen uses the native linux framebuffer (norns does) it’d be pretty simple to have the screen interface “just work”. norns encoders/etc are linux events (we tried to respect the existing linux model and not make many weird hacks) but can be easily routed via OSC. pd/etc has already been discussed. we’ll be publishing the OSC spec for interaction with matron for custom DSP backends, but there are also tentative plans for more robust JACK integration which suggest similar chaining opportunities.

of course once we get the code all published it’ll become more clear where there is crossover potential

[glia]

Orac

For those who are a bit lost…

I love the Organelle, its portability, its flexibility…
However, one thing I wished was that I could run multiple patches at once, combine them in different ways…

[sakul]

or in-house: Orac : open source instrument thing ;)

just had a thought… imagine a patch system a la orac which adresses this:
https://llllllll.co/t/composition-of-control-instrument-design/

compose building blocks to quickly build monome (or non monome) logic on-the-fly (and on device, with much more screen real estate). no idea how well this would work but it’s fun to think about.

I think both projects have already enough to explore without cross potential. but holy moly, exciting times!

[glia]

oops

didn’t realize the whole category where he posted that was on mute

[sakul]

no worries, was meant to be supplementary

[glia]

I’m glad to have a reminder

thanks!

[robotboot]

norms 256 support would be awesome

[tehn]

woke up to a github notification that @zebra added a vocoder…

[shreeswifty]

Xenakis had some musical composition/conductor games too FWIW

[bobbcorr]

We are all one day closer to dagur nornanna.

[disquiet]

I’m preparing myself for when The First One Hundred receive their inaugural devices and this thread goes extra-bonkers.

[jonsimon]

[dansimco]

Waiting patiently for second batch…

[gkaijones]

+1 on the idea of Norns as DJ box.
Trying to imagine what this would look like.

some basic feature requests off the top of my head (at work now):
would be fun to be able to cue up waveforms on display,
using on-board knob/arc/midi to scrub through tracks,
tracks assignable to either 1/4" output/ cue to headphone out,
auto-bpm analysis with speed-adjust linked to BPM,

Maybe once the dev libraries are posted and the units are shipping and everyone’s hacking away, it would make sense to start some project discussions in #development

[lazzarello]

This is my first “Monome drop” moment. Do boutique shops commonly get orders in? There’s this place called Robotspeak in SF that seems like a place that would have some of the first run units. Or do we just wait until there are more on the ecomm site?