#1438

hey just in case this is what others have asked for, or perhaps what the monome team planned…full fledged studies are not what i’m expecting in the repo at ALL

i assumed we’d see the source code (of engines and scripts) and that’s it

just letting yall know in case you’re feelin pressured
this is all really fantastic so thanks for the massive effort involved to produce this instrument

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#1439

Is midi going to be the best way to control norns with a pedal?

#1440

i have a few opensource teensy projects i’d like to make ASAP. first is a pedal interface. second is a CV trigger in, trigger out— for basic sync. they could be MIDI, as that’d be super easy to interface with the existing MIDI framework which is built into norns already. but they could also be serial.

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#1441

sync via CV: yes please!

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#1442

Hoping crow will be a good way to interface with modular. I just recently started putting together a system and have held of on a es8/ midi sync modules. Figured Norns / crow would be my way in.

#1443

Oooh been looking forward to this! Might whip up one myself in Arduino, using OSC via USB. Or, adapt a Keith McMillen Softstep!

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#1444

Someone else mentioned positive grids BT4 Bluetooth pedal. Would be amazing to be able to use this?

#1445

is it bluetooth midi? that’d work (i think) if you had a bluetooth dongle (norns doesn’t have bluetooth).

but yes the idea is to have super-low-cost DIY solutions to some needed peripherals. certainly crow will offer sync/etc, but this teensy CV sync is something that could be rolled in an afternoon.

ok-- back to build/ship and then documentation tonight.

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#1446

From their FAQ:

At the moment, the BT-4 pedal works only with iOS.

And they mention lack of OSX, Windows support. So I guess that means it may not be as simply as adding a dongle?? Seems a shame as i agree it would be a great pairing for Norns.

#1447

will the rest of batch one go out today? :slight_smile:

#1448

Shame. Thanks though.

#1449

I assumed that people who bought them knew or maybe expected that Norns is Linux based now people are talking about Bluetooth N stuff and I am getting a bit confused.

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#1450

Why is that? Enlighten us.

#1451

linux supports bluetooth. just a matter of getting the bits lined up.

shipping today, yes.

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#1452

You can even control bluetooth via command line in linux!

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#1453

I don’t have a norns, but I imagine the Mutable Instruments CVPal might be useful with it. Can be built from a kit, and shows up as a class compliant USB midi device that outputs CV / Gate (no CV or gate inputs, though).

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#1454

Question re: FAT formatting:

Does Norns prefer FAT or FAT32? Both options are available under MacOS Disk Utility, and the only format it seems to allow me to format to is FAT32.

#1455

FAT32 will work fine.

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#1456

audio files (aif, wav, at 48k)

SuperCollider can load a few libsndfile-supported compressed formats as well, namely FLAC and Ogg Vorbis. I’ve only tried loading those with glut, but it uses plain Buffer.readChannel, so it should work with other engines too.

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#1457

i just assumed that folks knew that they would have to do a little finagling for bluetooth etc is all.
and i recall hearing that the norns was wifi enabled, i didn’t recall bluetooth being in there.
I did have a tiny USB bluetooth dongle that worked perfectly with piSound i need to find it but i assume a bunch of the raspi based accessories will work