#41

Niiiii i i i i i i c e
(Pressed K3 sorry)

edit: dang it looked much cooler on my phone…
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#42

holy crap. now I really wish I had a 128. Need to try and wrap my head around how to mod this for a 64.

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#43

I love seeing the way you incorporated the grid! The visualizer you came up with is a super cool way to deal with the fact the grid is a discrete display, but the buffers can be arbitrary (non quantized lengths). I’m really excited to play around with it!

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#44

20 characters of woah. Such an upgrade to cranes.

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#45

Just wanted to say that this is excellent and thanks so much!

I love that you can still go grid free and have a really fun/portable little looper, but if you’ve got a grid on you this really makes things so much more expressive and musical.

Now I’m pondering a cranes 2.1 based live set.

edit: quick video of my first session with 2.1

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#46

Are there any special instructions for updating this on Norns 2.0.1?

#47

I’m so glad folks are vibing on it! please lmk any q’s, discoveries, requests or troubles. thx as always for the interest!

I’m so glad this connects with you. keeping the features complete w/o grid was the core of this version – which really freed up energy to explore what adding a grid could allow.

please share any experiments! edit: oh dang, you did!!! sounds great.

nope! should be able to use Librarian or Cyberduck/SFTP or Maiden :slight_smile: lmk if things get wonky tho!

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#48

Much satisfaction being able to manipulate cranes via grid. Here’s a first little play.

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#49

It’s awesome. So much better and controllable with the grid. I always got a little confused and lost with what was happening in v1, so never really saw the full potential of it. Now I do :slight_smile:

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#50

v nice, thank you :slight_smile:

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#51

cranes 2.11

added:

  • global semitone offset in params (affects both buffers simultaneously), midi controllable
  • midi control to select KEY3 behavior in params

it’s so so lovely to see the videos y’all are posting – thank you for sharing your sessions and please keep 'em coming!

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#52

i’ve just begun my norns journey
cranes first

today i made this:

having so much fun
thanks dan :slight_smile:

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#53

You can use cranes as a delay too. Set the buffer to a short length and change overdub to liking.

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#54

@dan_derks :clap: :clap: :clap: This is amazing. I’ve been using Cranes with Cocoquantus all day it’s been an absolute blast. One quick clarifying question for you, though: after recording the initial loop (which I understand is written to both buffers), is it possible to address the buffers simultaneously when recording additional layers?

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#55

I too wish this was an option somehow. I miss this about old Cranes. That said, I LOVE new Cranes too :slight_smile:

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#56

excellent feedback, thanks y’all!

in short, yes with cranes 2.12b: https://gist.github.com/dndrks/6ecd6c3dc259fba2fa15b8df4a211ceb

in params, I added the ability to change which buffer voice 2 references – it’s the last parameter and it’s midi controllable.

by default, voice 1 writes into buffer 1 + voice 2 writes into buffer 2. with this new setting, you can toggle voice 2 between buffer 1 and buffer 2.

with voice 2 set to reference buffer 1, if you overwrite voice 1 / buffer 1 then voice 2 will play it back at the rate set for voice 2 – this gets us back to de-coupled record and play heads, just like old cranes!

bonus: with this configuration, overwriting voice 2 will write into buffer 1. so if voice 1 is set to 1x and voice 2 is set to 0.5x, overwriting into voice 2 will play the material back at double-speed through voice 1.

@Olivier + @yobink: if you’re able to give 2.12b a whirl and lmk how it goes, then I’ll fold this into the official repo.

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#57

Amazing! I might leave work today a tad early to give this new version a spin. Thanks, Dan!

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#58

I have a quick stupid question and maybe I am missing something obvious in the Softcut settings. I use a lot of mono voices. If I put a mono cable in input 1 is it possible that input 1 would record to both buffers at the same time? or does input 1 and input 2 always get recorded to buffer 1 and buffer 2 on Cranes? I know the way around it would be to get a splitter cable, but can it be done internally on Norns?

#59

hey Jason – I can totally surface a params setting for this but in the meantime, you’ll want to change lines 87 - 90 (or 89 - 92 if you’re using 2.12b) to:

softcut.level_input_cut(1, 1, 1.0)
softcut.level_input_cut(1, 2, 1.0)
softcut.level_input_cut(2, 1, 1.0)
softcut.level_input_cut(2, 2, 1.0)

that way, both buffers are accepting full volume from both channels.

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#60

That’s perfect Dan thank you! I’ll change the settings.

My workaround at the moment is a bit bizarre as I don’t have a suitable splitter cable. I am currently putting a mono cable into an Eventide pedal and taking the 2 outs to Norns!

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