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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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Why is that? Enlighten us.

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

shipping today, yes.

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You can even control bluetooth via command line in linux!

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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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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.

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FAT32 will work fine.

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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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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

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Well, norns arrived.
It is a beautiful new thing!
Thank you all involved in making this a reality!

First question:
As I am just first starting to learn how to navigate it without any externals connected, I was exploring the apps (is that what we call them?) and I got stuck in Flin… how do I get back to the top menu? Either something is not obvious in the interface, or I am thick as a board (likely the latter).
I thought quick tap on key 1 would bring me back out of FLIN, but it just toggles between Flin menu and the graphic interface for Flin…

Thoughts?

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I don’t have mine with me atm, but I think it’s:

  • Key 1 to get to the flin menu
  • Key 3 (forward) into ‘Select’ should get you to a list of applications in artfwo’s folder
  • use Enc 2 to navigate and use Key 3 (forward) to load a different application OR Key 2 (back) will go back to the main directory so you can select a different folder.
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Recorded some of the stuff requested by peeps above, but the first cut was around 20 minutes! Editing it down so my laptop doesn’t explode from the rendering. Might break it down into smaller chunks, too.

In the mean time, here’s a short demo of “earthsea”, a polyphonic synthesizer script that can be controlled by grid or an external midi controller.

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Yup.
Thanks Dan.

Thick as a board it is then.

:smile:

At first it felt like I “get out” not the same way I “got in”, but it may just take a while to get used to the flow.

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How does one tell how much “juice” is left in the battery?

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mixer screen, top right. if running on battery, shows percent.

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Thank you.
was wondering what that number is!

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hello!
just unboxing and for some reason i’m focused on wifi first (why i don’t know), but dongle is in, password correct on multiple networks, but no matter what i do it’s “status:failed”. not sure what i’m doing wrong here. anyone else having this problem? i restarted norns, router, everything.

thanks everyone! norns is sure pretty. i’m gonna get my headphones now.

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Also, is anyone able to use Norns plugged into a computer with USB and not get lots of line noise? Haven’t had this happen with other similar devices (Axoloti, OP-1…)

Loving it though. So much to learn and explore!

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Is there a link to the tutorials anywhere? Don’t see them on the monome page after a quick look on my phone. I’m trying to work out if norns is something that could be useful to me but still quite lost, as in, I don’t know code, how do I make a thing with it? It seems quite impenetrable, which is more of a barrier than the price, for me.

Somewhat related to @glia’s thoughts.

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It has been said that tutorials and documentation will be available soon/later. Right now production and shipping of the first 100 has been priority. The first owners are starting to recieve theirs now, so I guess there will be a lot of nice snippets to appear in the following days. Can’t wait to receive mine!

If you see the top post there’s links to all the information to get the picture of what Norns is and potentially will be :slight_smile: basically there’s more than enough scripts featured on delivery to keep us busy. There will also be some kind of Norns studies similar to the Teletype videos IIRC :slight_smile:

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