Approaching: norns

[tehn]

monome grids start shipping also thurs/fri

[XiXora]

I have never looked forward to a Customs charge more!

[greaterthanzero]

Having a backlog of weekly studies when we get there is probably a fair consolation for being in the second batch.

[bobbcorr]

[glia]

settled on this power bank

only thing i’ve bought while waiting for norns…i have everything else i need

[shreeswifty]

so that will charge the norns i assume? I forgot it was battery operated i have one of these
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1042742-REG/xcellon_usb_8pch_xcellon.html

[garethlyons]

Cool. I’ll have to get something similar. Also any idea if there is a limit to the size of a usb flash drive norns can handle.

[HateNames]

How many London people are waiting on a Norns order? Maybe we can start an irl support group or something, battery power!

[glia]

yeah
i got the powerbank to extend the range of use

if i’m in transit > outside recording > performing with two usb controllers…and dont want to wait or worry about low power, then i’ll carry one or two of these

[glia]

regarding internal external storage:

…you can add a huge file system. i haven’t yet integrated this into the file nav but it’s pretty trivial.

4gb of internal storage. an yes, you can load from a usb drive.

fyi the os/etc is at least 1.5g of that space. we’ll prioritize getting external disk interaction into the system.

i’m not sure whether they’ll add this functionality in time for launch
but it’s happening

maximum shouldnt be limited if i understand what’s underneath norns hood

[garethlyons]

That’s good to hear now i remember Brian saying that a while back. I was thinking of buying a usb drive for norns so I guess I’ll wait until the unit is capable… When I had the er-301 a while there was a Max 32gb so was just wondering if norns had similar limitation.

Anyone know if the granular thing is grain fields or something different?

[ngwese]

i’m not sure whether they’ll add this functionality in time for launch
but it’s happening

Initially there is a simple facility to sync user content to or from the embedded flash to a USB thumb drive. Given that norns is a linux machine the external file system limits are more or less what one would expect from a normal computer.

There is a significant performance difference between the onboard storage and an external thumb drive. Time will tell whether external storage can play a roll other than backup.

[shreeswifty]

https://pastebin.com/bxDPUgNf

that was way too long sorry

i found this looks like a good example of bit/bytebeating in SC

[shreeswifty]

Bitwise

schemawound is a SC boss his sctweets are great too

[shreeswifty]

// 8-bit magic
(
play {
var t = PulseCount.ar(Impulse.ar(8e3));
HPF.ar(
(
((t * 15) & (t >> 5)) |
((t * 5) & (t >> [3, 4])) |
((t * 2) & (t >> 9)) |
((t * 8) & (t >> 11))
- 3 % 256
) / 127-1 * 3
, 20
).tanh
}
)

[shreeswifty]

i think this is a great explanation of what is actually taking place and is a great resource

1112.1368v1.pdf

[glia]

there is a simple facility to sync user content to or from the embedded flash to a USB thumb drive. Given that norns is a linux machine the external file system limits are more or less what one would expect from a normal computer.

There is a significant performance difference between the onboard storage and an external thumb drive.

I’m more interested in using extra storage to augment space for onboard recording (rather than loading/sync stored samples)

Any news on that front? Is there a similar performance dip?

[karst]

I’m more interested in using extra storage to augment space for onboard recording (rather than loading/sync stored samples)

I think I’m interested in both, but I’d love it if, after writing a recording to local storage, that recording could be moved to the external storage, freeing up the local storage for new things.

[instantjuggler]

does anyone want to have an “Arrived: norns” thread when people start receiving their units, or are we gonna keep all the norns activity here?

[Jonathan_Riley]

I also want a NORNS STUDIES thread asap to see folks first patches.