#1462

Awesome. Powered off and it booted up fine. Thanks for the quick help!

#1463

Trying to get a keyboard to work with Orca, I am using what I have and so far no luck. I have a wireless logitech that hangs the system and an older (2007) Mac keyboard. The Mac board shows up in the HID menu just fine and I can reassign it in the four HID positions, but I don’t get anything when I type in Orca. I’m not opposed to trying to order another keyboard but I feel like the Mac board is close and maybe I’m missing something…?? Help appreciated!

#1464

mine has been weird. i have used a wired one and a wireless (usb dongle) one. both show up in hid, but took a little experimenting in the slots to work. this might just be for mine, but i had to put all instances of the same device in all slots, them switch them around, plug and unplug dongle/cable, delete all other slots except for one. for some reason that worked for me. or maybe it just took a while and i was just doing all of that for nothing. after the first successful connection, they should work every time

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#1465

Thanks - i did an ‘update all’ in maiden and now OTIS works.

Perhaps there was something up with the prior norns version, as the error I was seeing reflected that seen by other norns users - either way all good now.

#1466

fired it all this morning and it just worked…talk about fate! :upside_down_face: thanks for your reply!

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#1467

Just curious if anybody in this topic has an experience with this, I’ve continued to have odd noise for issues with RPi 4’s in FATES. Nothing with RPi 3+ tho. I have tried 2 FATES boards and two Rpi 4’s. I’m using the 4GB RAM RPi 4. The noise floor is best found when using Cheat Codes because when opening the program, it is tripling the sound in buffer. Very interesting indeed. I plan to just swap everything to RPi 3+‘s but was just wondering if anybody else experienced this.

#1468

I’ve got an old white emac keyboard that I use with my Fates. It shows up as three devices in the menu with the same name :confused: , and you have to pick the right one of the three for it to work. I think the extra devices might be the internal USB hub?

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#1469

Did you manage to sort it out?
I looked into mine today, cleaned and reflowed the 3rd encoder joints just in case, also looked for shorts but no luck so far.
It’s still completely unusable :frowning: , I’ll try to order another one (post-coronavirus crisis as I can’t receive any parcel right now) and replace it.
I wonder though if it could come from somewhere else like a cold joint on another component.
@okyeron can you give us an insight about somewhere/something to look on the board related to the 3rd encoder ? Thanks

#1470

Hi, yes! Actually I desoldered the 4th encoder to replace the third one and it’s working pretty fine since then. I assume my case was a defect encoder.
Now I have a hole to be filled once I get another encoder hehe

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#1471

encoders are dead simple - they’re directly connected to the Raspi header.

Check these pins on the header for E3 (or the vias shown here)
Screen Shot 2020-03-25 at 5.41.33 PM

if it’s a different enc, lemme know

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#1472

Thank you both @amgnowhere and @okyeron for your replies, I’m gonna check this and swap the encoder with the fourth one too (don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier!). Will report back :slight_smile:

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#1473

check those pins on the header first for sure

removing the thru hole stuff can be a hassle sometimes, so take your time and make sure not to overheat or overwork the pads. A solder sucker is key here.

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#1474

I’m having a hell of a time getting audio into my fates. It’s worked once but was a bit spotty with what I thought was a bad cable (stereo cable into one of the mono inputs). I bought some mono cables and now I can’t get anything to register on the input. I’ve tried a number of cables (mono and stereo) and audio sources (pocket operator, korg monotron, output from my phone) I’ve tried reflashing my SD card, reflowing the solder joints, and have run the audio tests here a few times but I cannot get anything from an external audio source into the fates via either the L or R input jacks.

What could I be missing?

#1475

off the top of my head…
Check the input levels on the MIX page?
Check your capacitor orientation
Post a high rez picture of the DAC area (could be the output pins?)

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#1476

is there a fix for “duplicate engines” or “Supercollider fail”? i just tried installing the Islands & Misc scripts manually and now I can’t open any scripts. After getting the duplicate engines error messages, i deleted the two scripts and now I am getting the Supercollider fail and each script gets stuck on the loading screen. This happened after I updated and tried copying everyting over from my backup manually and the only fix i could find was to re-flash the disk image and install each script from Maiden.

I would really like to avoid starting all over again for the 5th time in the last week if possible. Any ideas?

#1477

Which specific scripts? (Misc??)

How did you install/remove them?

#1478

I downloaded the zip folder from here:

And Installed by uploading the unzipped folder to the dust codes folder in cyberduck and then I just deleted the folder in cyberduck, which now that I think about it probably doesn’t uninstall it

#1479

That misc repo is a year old and probably incompatible with current norns. @dan_derks can you confirm?

It also duplicates other scripts (Islands,Kria) so is likely gonna cause exactly these problems if you already have those scripts installed.

I think at the moment any repo installed outside of maiden could be considered “at your own risk” or “not guaranteed to work”

#1480

woah, wild. that was just my branch off of @junklight’s misc. weird it came up, apologies to @encephalitislethargi!

i’d echo @okyeron’s advice – keep to the maiden project manager, as it has the best guarantee of reducing conflicts and duplication.

fwiw, if all you did was drag the folder into code, then deleting it from code should clean things up fine.

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#1481

I think I did grab junklights. I was just searching on my phone to respond to the question so I grabbed the first thing I found on google that looked like what I downloaded. I know that’s not helpful, sorry about that

Yeah I will do that from now on, aside from midi grid and one or two others I know are safe from my backup that work with my midi controller.

For now, is there probably no way to easily clean up supercollider duplicate engines? Would the easiest fix probably be to flash the sd and completely start over? Deleting them didn’t seem to fix it

I will have to grab the maiden report tomorrow when I get to my fates. Thanks for the help*

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