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Must be a weird optical illusion but it looks to me like you’re holding the norns with one hand, then holding the phone with another hand, and then using your third hand to push the side/volume button on the phone to take the actual photo.

(which reminds me of my favorite passage from 50 Shades of Grey:)

Christian Grey put his thumb in my mouth. And then the other one. And then two more. ”Wider,” he said as he put in one more. “I bet you’ve never had this many thumbs in your mouth.” I hadn’t.

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#1503

Do any of the initial Norns apps support Arc?

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#1504

Thank you! She’s a very good dog. She puts up with a lot of strange sounds.

Hah! That’s my wife holding a treat above my head. She wanted in on the photo. As much as I wish that my dog looked that enthusiastic whenever I played with a synth, we had to settle for the time-tested liver treats.

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#1505

thanks for the typo heads up. it’s KEY1

Do any of the initial Norns apps support Arc?

not yet, coming soon!

there are so many things this new thing can potentially do, it’s very difficult to prioritize which to work on (let’s say this is a good thing for now)

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#1506

Somehow only just when I saw your video did I think “oh shit I could take that to the park”, despite knowing that it’s battery powered. I think it was suddenly seeing it with a Grid and those speakers. #theGASisreal

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#1507

not to put too fine a point on it, but … laptops can also go to parks.

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#1508

Agreed. This is an extremely playable version of mlr. Love being able to so easily toggle quantization on and off. And pattern recording speed changes and reversals, in addition to step jumps is so much fun…

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#1509

wow, nice video. i’ve also went busking a couple of times with norns, grid, minirig (i only have one) and glut here in novosibirsk and it’s literally a very lightweight setup without the laptop.

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#1510

thanks for creating a beautiful sampler. going out with that setup is one of the things i’m most looking forward to… so simple, so so so light. my experience so far has been immediate music making. something i think is very valuable these days in a world where electronic music making devices are made to do so many different things often in a distracting way. the ~stock~ norns really focuses on fun and intuitive creating with so much depth that is both inspiring and non-intimidating. bravo!

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#1511

So true — can’t wait to get mine and join in on the fun. More exploration vids pls, thanks for that last one! :smile: :pie:

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#1512

:hushed: amazing stuff thanks for posting

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#1513

Just opened my Norns! Can I just say A+++ on package design. So masterfully thought out. Haven’t been that impressed since the mid 2000’s apple products!!! Nice work!

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#1514

So I understand how to save parameter settings and reload them in mlr. But I don’t see a way to save sets of 16 clips. Is that possible, or do you always start with a blank set of 16 clips in the current version?

#1515

ive had norns for about an hour and its nothing short of fantastic. already played with earthsea and mlr. i sampled some acoustic guitars from vinyl and immediatly i was getting lost in the sounds. this new mlr is beautiful. the whole device is incredibly intuitive. i was immediately having fun making music with it. i posted a few vids in my instagram stories at

more to come no doubt.

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thank you so much monome and everyone involved with making this. never thought something this cool would ever see the light of day. yet here we are.

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#1516

Hey guys, have you tried MLR in a more “rythmic” way? ie using drum / percussion /rythmic material? anticipating the arrival of mine!

And how do you sync the norns with an external clock? is midi the only way for now?

#1517

how are you liking the minirig pair with norns? I’ve got a pair and a sub I’m looking forward to using with norns if I can get in on the forthcoming batch

#1518

the minirigs feel good. the portability of norns makes me want to set it up everywhere else i can before i plug it into my main music area, and i’ve yet to find a rechargeable speaker that lasts as long and sounds as good as the minirig, so it was right away the first thing i thought to do.

i have improvised music for dance classes a couple times with the minirigs in pretty big rooms and they always sound amazing. norns deserves no less when it’s on the go. that reverb!

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#1519

Was totally thinking the same thing ! That reverb is reeeeeally pretty sounding

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#1520

So Norns has a mixer section and reverb? I asked above early on but didn’t get a clear answer, could you play through mlr mixing in the source material, sampled/processed material in mlr and add end of chain reverb (and delay)? This is already enough for me and is super exciting!