#101

Nice! Is this the @marcus_fischer x @taylor12k “Twine” preset? :laughing: Love it.

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#102

softcut beats nagra, I’m afraid to say

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#103

just an appreciation track–love the grid layout for cranes! it was like 1000 degrees in my non-airconditioned apartment yesterday but i was at least able to make the sound track to my pending death via heatstroke:

maybe old news, but one fringe feature (bug?) i noticed that i thought was really cool. if you change the speed of one of the loops while the buffer is cleared, it will still write into the buffer at normal speed, but as soon as you tap to close the loop it jumps back to how the write speed is set on the grid. from then on when you’re in overdubbing mode the behavior is ‘traditional’ (you can hear it at the start of this track, the first loop drops down to 50% immediately, but subsequent overdubs don’t muddy up the bass).

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#104

To sorta piggyback this reply, I also made a short sketch with cranes yesterday.

I’m obviously still a beginner at all this but cranes is easily one of my current favorite scripts, even though I don’t always know what’s going on.

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#105

dont qualify your clip as beginner level
it’s good stuff

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#106

fringe feature! so glad you found it. the initial recording will always be 1x forward, to allow for the exact behavior your wonderful video showcases (love those outdoor shots!!). overdubs will be at the selected rate.

@ecfike, thank you so much for sharing your sketch! I’m glad that the opacity isn’t discouraging – the only thing beginner about this is your mindset, which is perfect for exploration and landing on lovely artifacts like this :slight_smile:

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#107

impressed you made it that far! :wink: wanted to give anyone who got that many minutes into an arrhythmic mbira drone jam at least something to look at.

fringe feature

really interesting. didn’t actually realize that was possible with softcut. is it only possible because playback hasn’t started yet? or can you record into the buffer at a rate other than the rate of playback?

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also, for anyone with an arc who hasn’t gotten a chance to dive into lua at all, here is my arc mapping for cranes:

no LEDs, but knobs 1 and 2 control the buffer volumes and knobs 3 and 4 control the buffer windows (same as the dim middle buttons on the grid)

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#108

No, read and write heads are locked into a fixed phase relationship for each voice.

(Of course you can use multiple voices on the same buffer region, running at different speeds, with different read/write modes.)

In this case it’s a cranes UI thing - loop speed isn’t applied until playback begins

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#109

Do we just copy that into the cranes Lua? Ta

#110

really cool. dreaming of a softcut melotron if i ever get a chance to start another script

the gist is the entire cranes script plus my arc function, so i would make a new document in maiden and copy/paste it into there.

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#111

Yes! That’s a good dream

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#112

Thank you so much for making Cranes, Dan. Since getting my Norns 2-3 weeks ago, I’ve used Cranes most of the time and I’ve managed to crack a year-long writing block. In fact, I believe I’ve made nearly the amount of full-length of release-worthy material over the last week or so (summer vacation also helps)!

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#113

I’m so glad + humbled to hear this, thank you for sharing :slight_smile:

it is really super rewarding to hear that a tool made for specific personal goals can connect with others in the same way – it feels like having a conversation without words. I am really appreciative of this space.

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#114

this is super fun to make sounds with. is there any way to make your own defat setting in the params or creat presets of a sort. like im finding that setting the lvl in voice to .5 makes it inline with monitoring and would love to make it just open that way instead of me forgetting till after the fact. or is this a norns thing in general with how it works?

#115

thanks so much Collin!
I want to do some code cleanup, add filters, and deepen grid interaction over the next few weeks – I’ll take a look at exposing some additional params so you can map these starting points!

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#116

thank you. it would be much appreciated. i tried looking at it myself but i have no experience with code at all and i tried to change things but it didn’t go as expected. im trying to level the incoming volume with what comes out and also have hard pans l ad r. i can seam to do it by going to the setting each time when i remember :slight_smile: again thanks so much this is a blast.

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#117

just so I’m on the same page with the need, can you identify which exact parameters you are adjusting and to what values? :revolving_hearts:

#118

Yes. @dan_derks
if i set
lvl in L voice 1 to 0.5
lvl in L voice 2 to 0.5
pan voice 1 to 1.0
pan voice 2 to 0.0
i get audio at the same level monitoring as the output. so playing over and overdubs happen seamless.
my problem is eveytime i open cranes up these setting get erased and my audio coming in is drastically softer then the audio coming out. I tried editing the code but my lack of knowledge for that i could not figure out changing the settings.

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#119

Wowzers. So, um, Cranes is fun @dan_derks. Thanks for making this. Such a great tool for laying down an ambient base to jam over!

Quick question- I seem to have somehow accidentally enabled speed slew on voice one, but not on voice two. Does that sound possible, haha? Help a beginner out?

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#120

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anyone else using cranes for pseudo-grindcore vocal processing/looping? (shot from a gig last weekend, first time playing out with cranes, second time with the norns)

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