#41

loved the visuals on this session, not to derail the thread, maybe message me if you wouldnt mind, but would love t hear about how you made the visuals. been getting into video synthesis of late. cheers.

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#42

i attempted to send it random steps across all three variables.
:stuck_out_tongue:

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#43

THANK YOU for the added feature and mega quick update!

loaded up!
i really like the highlighted variables when using the ALT!

againā€¦THANKS!

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#44

this is really cool! Iā€™ve been looking for scripts to have my norns on that are sort of like ā€œwallpaperā€ appsā€¦where I could leave them on and then mute unmute where norns is going into my interface and see whatā€™s going on. this seems like it could be pretty great at that!

the only bug Iā€™ve seen is that it seems like Mt. Lion/Zion donā€™t respond to the amp. parameter, not sure if that is a bug or not though.

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#45

There might indeed be a bug in there, but I stuffed a bunch of sample & holds and lags in it, so it does respond slower to those parameters than the other drones.

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#46

Three new drones from @Taubaland!! Special shout out for knocking out the basic Triangle and Square drones.

As a lo-fi enthusiast myself, Nautilus makes me especially happy.

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#47

@tyleretters
i think i found another bugā€¦:slight_smile:
if you clear the script it will not stop droning until you load another script.

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#48

Can you share steps to reproduce? I assume youā€™re on the latest version, too?

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#49

when on the main OS page for nornsā€¦

hold K1 until the screen displays CLEARā€¦then push K3.

this will clear the script and display NONE on the main OS page.

i always do this before norns SLEEP so when i start them back up i have a clean slate to begin noiz progress from.

#50

Gotcha. Yep, Iā€™m able to reproduce. Looking into it now. Thank you for the bug reports. :slight_smile:

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#51

i need some help.

iā€™m interested in making a ā€œthxā€ style drone. basically i created a bunch of detunned sawtooth oscillators that can be tuned to octaves around the given hz by turning up the amp. iā€™m very new to supercollider so i followed this brilliant demo of thx sound and also followed @licenseā€™s Mt Zion script and ended up with the following norns drone engine script:

// @infinitedigits
// THX
{
    arg out, hz=55.1, amp=0.02, amplag=0.02, hzlag=0.01;
    var amp_, hz_;
    amp_ = Lag.ar(K2A.ar(amp), amplag);
    hz_ = Lag.ar(K2A.ar(hz), hzlag);
    
    var numVoices = 9;
    var fundamentals = ({rrand(200.0, 400.0)}!numVoices).sort.reverse;
    var finalPitches =  (numVoices.collect({|nv| hz_*(2**((nv/2).round-3)); }));
    var sweepFactors = ({rrand(0.2,2)}!numVoices);
    var voices=(1..numVoices-1).collect({|numTone|
        var initRandomFreq = fundamentals[numTone] + LFNoise2.kr(0.5, 6 * (numVoices - (numTone + 1)));
        var destinationFreq = finalPitches[numTone] + LFNoise2.kr(0.1, (numTone / 3));
        var sweepFactor = sweepFactors[numTone];
        var sweepEnv = amp_;
        var freq = ((1 - (sweepEnv**sweepFactor)) * initRandomFreq) + ((sweepEnv**sweepFactor) * destinationFreq);
        Pan2.ar(
            BLowPass.ar(Saw.ar(freq), freq * 6, 0.6),
            rrand(-0.5, 0.5),
            (1 - (1/(numTone + 1))) * 1.5
        ) / numVoices
    });
    Out.ar(out,Mix.ar(voices));
}

but, no sound (nor errors) comes out of the norns :frowning:

however, it does make sound in supercollider on my computer (hardcoded the hz_ and amp_ and changed the Out.ar line):

(
{
    var hz_ = 440;
    var amp_ =1;

    var numVoices = 9;
    var fundamentals = ({rrand(200.0, 400.0)}!numVoices).sort.reverse;
    var finalPitches =  (numVoices.collect({|nv| hz_*(2**((nv/2).round-3)); }));
    var sweepFactors = ({rrand(0.2,2)}!numVoices);
    var voices=(1..numVoices-1).collect({|numTone|
        var initRandomFreq = fundamentals[numTone] + LFNoise2.kr(0.5, 6 * (numVoices - (numTone + 1)));
        var destinationFreq = finalPitches[numTone] + LFNoise2.kr(0.1, (numTone / 3));
        var sweepFactor = sweepFactors[numTone];
        var sweepEnv = amp_;
        var freq = ((1 - (sweepEnv**sweepFactor)) * initRandomFreq) + ((sweepEnv**sweepFactor) * destinationFreq);
        Pan2.ar(
            BLowPass.ar(Saw.ar(freq), freq * 6, 0.6),
            rrand(-0.5, 0.5),
            (1 - (1/(numTone + 1))) * 1.5
        ) / numVoices
    });
    Mix.ar(voices);
}.play;
)

any idea on why the norns version of the script (the former) doesnā€™t work with norns+dronecaster?

thank you so much for reading and also thank you so much for this script, its really inspired me to learn supercollider.

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#52

I donā€™t know why, but if you change the amp_ and hz_ declarations to where they get set, it works.

//var amp_, hz_;
var amp_ = Lag.ar(K2A.ar(amp), amplag);
var hz_ = Lag.ar(K2A.ar(hz), hzlag);

a good place to check any areas that supercollider is failing, is by connecting to norns.local in your browser and checking the sc output!

Nice work, the drone sounds great!

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#53

thanks so much! i never wouldā€™ve caught that :smile: its working great now! will make a pr

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#54

pr made!

an example of ā€œthxā€:

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#55

Amazing work on this!!! Really incredible script you created here.

Also awesome bending the rules with the parameters. I love it.

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#56

Oooh I love this one!

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#57

Hereā€™s the Mt Lion - love it.
I was heavily into those bands when at Uni - this script nails those tones. Incredible script, especially like Thx and Mt Zion also.

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#58

@license is a genius. I love your norns enclosure

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#59

This is fantastic. @tyleretters is the real genius for starting this project.

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#60

Thanks for this brilliant script. Thinking about contributing a drone or two. :blush:

Iā€™m thinking that a nice addition would be an LFO or two that could be slowed down to glacial speeds. (Thinking about a logarithmic speed setting between milliseconds and days.) Thoughts?

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