This looks excellent and I appreciated the use of musical notation in your docs. I think this will be the catalyst to go and build a norns shield for myself.

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I got my first modular setup, as well as a crow. I would like to add some crow functionality to Ekombi, basic CV triggers for sure, but I could do more. Are there any Ekombi users out there that also have/use crow?

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I still have not had a lot of opportunity to use Ekombi, partially because of its lack of crow support. I only have an OP-1 as a midi source at the moment and don’t have a significant sample library that fits my desires at the moment.

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I was using ekombi more when I first built a fates, but I have no grid so the control scheme was a bit hard for me. The encoder sensitivity was way too high for me to accurately use it.

That said, if it were easier to control and had crow trigger outs as an option I’d certainly make use of it.

Edit: inspired to go back to it this morning. It’s a great sequencer! Using a midi to cv converter for triggers and really enjoying the results. Crow implementation would be great! Clock in and 4 trigger outs. What would a be a good second input?

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I’m not sure exactly how I could get a CV Clock-in to work, since ekombi relies on a very fast metronome for divisions. I wonder if that could be accomplished with some sort of quantizing. I was thinking the two inputs could work as ways of changing the pattern. Either randomizing a track, or cycling through saved patterns.

There will definitely be 4 trigger outs, but I was considering putting envelope generators in the params menu. Maybe that can wait until the params menu overhaul, it’s pretty crowded already.

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I’ve been hard at work updating ekombi. Because of the great new global clock, I’ll be able to add a lot of features to make it a more fulfilled sequencer. Step-wise parameters, beats with different subdivisions in the same track, and combining a bunch of patterns to make songs. Think OP-Z with more rhythmic control. I’m planning support for every grid size (or at least most, I haven’t tested ack’s limits yet), and with the new version being very grid-centric, editing patterns with only norns won’t be super accessible.

Hope to have v2 out before the end of the month.

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if anyone would like to test or proofread the new version I’m working on, here’s the repo I’ve been committing to.

It’s in a pretty bare-bones state right now, but should work for some quick music making.

currently have:

  • grid display
  • subdivisions per step (calling them beats and sub-beats)
  • subdivisions toggle on/off (beats can be toggled manually via REPL)
  • global clock
  • crow trigs (1-4), midi trigs, and random samples
  • supports all grid sizes (let me know if there are issues, I only have a 128 to test w)

next on the agenda:

  • step components
  • norns display
  • pattern saving/auto-saving
  • song construction
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two tracks of ekombi with crow, maths, and a mangrove.

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Hi everyone

I tried to load the application on FATES but I can’t. I see the error message load fail
thanks for any help

I might’ve messed things up a bit because I changed the ekombi-v2 repository to ekombi, the url in the library manager is probably trying to pull the new version, and there may be conflicts.

Can you open up the directory in maiden and show me the contents?

Sure:)
MAIDEN dir
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SMB dir
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thanks

Ok, that looks like the new version alright. Are you updated to the latest version of norns?

this is the script error
error.rtf (3.6 KB)

I’ve Fates last version: 200218

Looks like a missed a string when I was renaming. ‘ekombi-v2’ should be ekombi in all the include() functions. I’ll push a fix up now.

Also I haven’t finished the docs for controls yet, sorry about that.

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of course, I get it:))) i chek new version from lib later.

Thanks!

I just pushed it up, try refreshing the community catalog.

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This looks amazing. Thank you for sharing.

v2.0 is officially available. I just wrote up a tutorial in the documentation section.

I still have more features to polish up, and might be switching to the Timber engine.

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Is this really the only means of contact here? Didn’t see any sort of DM options on your profile page. Anyway, I’m here if you want to message me.