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…both courses a simply excellent and again & again a source of useful information that might had not been needed on first sight. Bought and downloaded!

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Add me to the list of folks excited about the possibility of more DD CC2 vids!

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Anyone have tips/best practices for jamming live with acoustic instruments?

I’m planning on bringing norns + grid 128 + 16n to a casual jam with friends this weekend. Piano, guitar, maybe sax, maybe synth through an amp. I won’t have line inputs unfortunately, just a field recorder I can use for spot micing/live sampling. Though I expect that may present challenges with bleed.

I’m thinking of preparing a CC2 session ahead of time with one bank set to the live buffer, one set to something chopped to a chromatic scale, and the third with something textural. 16n controlling levels.

Any other ideas from folks who have done this type of thing before?

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hey guys just got a Norns shield and tried installing cc2 through SMB and keep getting ’ delete cc2 via maiden and re install a fresh copy ’ :((

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Hi @dani_derks. I’ve been quiet on CC for some time but CC is still my home base for live sets. It just gets better and better. I’d be interested to know if the just friends implementation could be made polyphonic? I often use the pad banks to manually play just friends via i2c.
On a related note, it is very slow to respond when played like that. It is snappy when sequenced but not very responsive when playing the keys. Is there a reason, or something that can be done. I usually just use it for legato style playing so not a big deal but I’d like to go a bit deeper

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yo :slight_smile: you can play polyphonically if you turn of the live quantisation via params → timings - it’ll look like it may be working monophonically because only one light on the grid illuminates at a time but it will just be playing the notes like a 128th (or something like that!) note apart which won’t be audible :slight_smile:
as for it working slowly, i’m not sure…mine always seems to work fine. it may be because you have your live quantisation on and its waiting for the next 8th, 16th, 32nd or whatever note to trigger the pad.

Hope that helps
Aaron

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Aaron, that is great thanks! I’ll get it sorted. I actually upgraded to cm 3+ today and noticed, after writing my above post, that it seems to have resolved. I had noticed other issues with Norns that seemed like it was running up against memory and processing limitations, so this would fit.
Edit: @Agraham1987 that didn’t work actually. I changed it here. Does that look right?

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I always reserve one of the three live buffers as a kind of delay. Recording a random pattern press or preparing the sequencer in a random fashion and set the feedback for live input to around 30% and press record at the start of the session.

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That’s a great idea. I ended up using mostly samples but had one shot recording to the live buffer setup and then played on the grid delay page live. Was pretty fun but I’d love to try your approach next time.

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Are you using bank b as the source for playing jf? If so then yeah that should be fine. And make sure you’ve got your jf set to yes and output to all ( you can select a specific output 1-6 as well as all. You’ve potentially got the output selected to a specified output number which means jf would skip a few steps before coming back to that specific output therefore creating a delay in response ) and the velocity above 0.
But there’s no reason why if you’ve got synth mode enabled, the live quantisation off and all the jf params switched on that it wouldn’t work? Other than maybe a bad i2c connection?
Could be a firmware issue? Crow or jf. Maybe try a different i2c cable?

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Thanks for your help. It worked the next time I tried. Not sure what the issue was but your instruction was correct

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Recently been using this script again after a bit of a hiatus and a couple things don’t work as I remember:

(1) With “timing>rec mode>loose” and “timing>P1 sets bpm?>yes” I can’t get the global clock to change and follow my pattern bpm.

(2) Similarly, with “loops>K2: dur → BPM” the global clock will not change to follow the pad’s loop duration

In Params / Clock I’ve had the source set to internal. I’m wondering if I’m forgetting a step to get the clock to follow CC2 in these cases? Thanks all.

Edit: Spelling.

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Hey @dani_derks

My CC doesn’t seem to save patterns. (I’m on the latest version)

Having come back to a song I was working on the Arp is there but no pattern in the other bank.

I tested it by starting fresh and saving and no pattern!!
I’ve tried saving with it playing and dormant

Is there an extra step I need to do to save my patterns?

Edit/thought upon getting home - do I need to save patterns into the sequencing grid first?

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been away for A LONG time - but I still dream about CC
any news? – just need a quick catch-up to any developments!
Cheers all (hi Dan!)
Eric

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Yes, patterns are stored on the sequencing page. however, i think a saved cc session should include your latest pattern on the main page as well

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That’s what I assumed but it doesn’t seem to on mine

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I love how this script is just a happy accident machine. Noodling around with different samples the other day and this pairing fell out. Been trying to put into practice some of the things from the music hackspace videos that were recommended earlier in this thread. Would definitely add a recommendation for them, really helped. Mind you, finally feel like I’m getting the hang of it and then I re-read the manual and discover more new things :rofl:

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So I’m really bad at remembering button combinations and stuff like that, so I made myself a single page cheat sheet (just for the recording page for now). The intention is to print it and have it on the desk next to me in the same way Matt Lowery did for Otis

This is absolutely no shade on the outstanding original documentation, which is brilliant, and it doesn’t have everything on it (I don’t have an Arc so didn’t include those controls), but sharing the PDF here in case anyone finds it useful.

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I was just struggling with my multi-page black and white printout of the original docs and this is PERFECT timing as a get back into cc2. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Hi all.

Is there a way to save live buffer into the sample clips whilst working on a project?
so I can record a live loop, move it into a sample bank, record another snippet etc.

Also @dan_derks If I have the enc resolution set to 1/6 etc. when I stop the transport and start it again, the bank clips all revert to the original position/length… is there a setting I’m missing that stops that from happening?

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