cheat codes
a sample playground for norns
adds:
- crow per-pad output, as discussed with @shellfritsch. on grid, put a bank into pad focus mode and you’ll see a bright LED under the bottom right corner of the bank. toggle it on/off to send a crow pulse when that pad is pressed. grid-ALT + that toggle to switch all pads at once.
- arc pattern save, as discussed with @laborcamp. no menu item, super straightforward. if you save a collection with an arc pattern on any encoder, it will save with your collection. if you load a collection that had arc patterns on any encoder, they will restore.
changes:
- to make room for crow-pad output, the arc selector for filter has turned into a three-finger press on the first three arc pads. this feels like an improvement overall!
v1.2.1: April 1, 2020
improved:
- params menu overhaul. cleaner, better flow!
- arc now has two modes – passive and active.
- passive: recorded gestures won’t affect currently selected pad unless the currently selected pad is the pad that was selected during gesture recording
- active: recorded gestures will change currently selected pad to whichever pad was selected during gesture recording
- MIDI can now control pad selection, rate, panning, level, start point and end point
added:
- tons of hooks for bi-directional OSC, which led to a TouchOSC iPad interface for cheat codes! opens up a ton of new possibilities for when you don’t have grid or arc handy.
fixed:
- LED turn-off timer for one-shot recording mode
v1.2: March 19, 2020
a massive improvement on timing.
nb. this is a deceptively huge update. I have tested restoring pre-1.2 collections a ton, but if you have a bunch of collections saved, I recommend backing up we > dust > data > cheat_codes with your preferred norns file management tool before updating. you won’t need to do anything with them after that, but it’d be good to have on hand.
[timing] tutorial:
thanks to @edison’s absolutely insane good vibes, I completely rewrote all the old linearization/quantization/snap-to-blah-blah stuff and arrived at four clean modes of nudging your Patterns in and out of time.
thanks to @ypxkap’s clear-eyed and -hearted thoughts, we’ve got focus mode for grid, which lets you latch a single pad for editing while your Patterns play. oh, also, grid-ALT + the third key in Zilchmo row 4 will make the duration of every pad in the bank 1/16th at the current BPM.
thanks to @deru’s energy + patience, we’ve got streamlined Live buffer save + restore and all the delays should be sending the right wet/dry levels when enveloped.
thanks to @swhic’s wisdom, we’ve got some Pattern randomizing! shuffle an existing Pattern or build a sequence on-demand!
a summary of changes:
- complete rewrite of [timing] modes, including massive clocking improvements for tempo-synced Pattern recording (got rid of all that vague linearization and snap stuff)
- MIDI clock out, MIDI clock in, and crow handling are all greatly improved
- Pattern shuffle: cut up and jumble your current grid Pattern
- random Pattern generation: create a grid Pattern in the current [timing] mode, on-demand
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focus mode, which allows a single pad to remain in editing focus while grid or arc Patterns play
- copy/paste now lives in
focus mode
- arc recording completely re-written – now, arc is aware of what pad received which adjustments and playback will only affect that pad
- live buffer save/restore no longer requires extra steps! all taken care of with the
save Live buffers? param
- added a reset/clear crow param function, in case crow stuff gets wonky
- crow input 1 toggles Live recording on/off
- fixed some residual delay-centric [level] issues
- fixed PARAMS: delay send , which now moves in 0.1 chunks (rather than binary on/off)
- changed K1 long press on [loops] page to a toggle, instead of needing to hold
- probably a ton of small things, all in the manual!
Requirements
- norns (200328 or later)
- grid strongly encouraged, not required
- arc strongly encouraged, not required
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TouchOSC for iPad strongly encouraged, not required
Documentation
200318-cheatcodesmanual.pdf (9.4 MB)
cheat codes manual - osc supplement.pdf (598.8 KB)
cheat codes 200408 revision.pdf (179.1 KB)
Download
cheat codes
Available in the maiden project manager as cheat_codes (commit 06cb3ad ).
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TouchOSC template
cheat_codes.touchosc (3.5 KB)
