Flora workshops: June 6th and 20th

jaseknighter · 2021-06-05T17:11:17.495Z

The introduction to Flora workshop is tomorrow

Basic instructions for Flora’s UI have been added to the Music Hackspace portal – you’ll get a reminder email from MH tomorrow with access details. The instructions that have been added to the portal are the same as those found on each screen of Flora (accessed by pressing the K1+K2 buttons). We’ll also make these available at the start of the workshop over Zoom.

Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns here or via DM.

I am super excited to see everyone tomorrow!

Helen · 2021-06-06T06:51:28.810Z

Email received, thank you Hackspace!

Really looking forward to it!

Knivtid · 2021-06-06T09:13:39.856Z

This is great, just what I needed. Will be joining today. Hopefully it wasn’t to late to register now?

jaseknighter · 2021-06-06T14:31:46.962Z

@Knivtid I am pretty sure you can register up to the last second or maybe even after the course has already started.

See you and @Helen and everyone else shortly!

Zeke_B · 2021-06-06T16:46:24.208Z

Quick question before the workshop begins: Will you be showing us how to use a controller during this session or will it strictly be on the Norns? I ask because I want to have a controller handy if you’ll be using one. Thanks and see you soon!

jaseknighter · 2021-06-06T16:49:56.407Z

Yes, I’ll be demonstrating the 16n and OMX-27 so feel free to bring yours. This is totally optional. While they be reviewed towards the end of the session, controllers will not be a major focus of today’s session.

swhic · 2021-06-06T18:57:00.047Z

thanks @jaseknighter flora rocks!

SMesquida · 2021-06-06T19:07:30.643Z

Thanks @jaseknighter! Great workshop!

Helen · 2021-06-06T19:15:22.709Z

Thank you @jaseknighter, our glamorous TAs , Laura from Hackspace & all fellow co-gardeners!

Knivtid · 2021-06-06T19:16:21.827Z

Great workshop! Thank you very much.

dani_derks · 2021-06-06T19:20:03.968Z

a few folks brought this up, but having a dedicated time to sit down and have in-the-moment guidance led to some really bonkers-lovely discoveries, just mindfully changing one or two parameters at a time. you’ve created something that lives and breathes, thank you for taking the time to shepherd us through it + sharing it with us!!!

infinitedigits · 2021-06-06T19:29:56.342Z

thank you @jaseknighter, the workshop was just fantastic. can’t wait for the next one! hopefully its okay to be a TA still when I’m doing a ton of learning and feel like a student

as I mentioned, its really boggling to me how dynamic flora gets with just a few tweaks (especially that envelope randomizer!). I’ve been recorded 20-30 minute sessions without even listening, mostly so I have something to listen to later. with flora I have this certainty that it will just sound good when I listen later because of the genius that it is.

here’s a clip of what I was jamming to during the workshop (flora sequencing piano and strega, doing lots of random modulation on the stega envelope):

24Franks · 2021-06-06T19:41:00.346Z

beautiful! how were you sequencing the piano?

jaseknighter · 2021-06-06T20:03:44.977Z

@Knivtid, @Helen , @SMesquida , @swhic, thank you so much and thanks to everyone for attending!

@24Franks, @infinitedigits, and @walkindude125, I am extremely grateful to you for your TA help leading up to and during the workshop!

@dani_derks bless you again and again for all your help getting this workshop off the ground and guiding me along the way.

If anyone has follow up questions from the workshop, please don’t hesitate to reach out in this thread or message me directly.

The next class on June 20 will cover the following topics:

Sequencing with L-Systems and mod screen deep dive
Community Gardening
PSET Sequencing
Outputs (including but not limited to midi, Just Friends, Crow, W/2)

I’m looking forward to seeing you all again in two weeks!

infinitedigits · 2021-06-06T20:04:03.970Z

piano was sequenced by forking flora and substituing the engine for mx.samples. its fun to use different instruments but it does miss out on all the cool bandsaw parameters if you do it this way.

alexblaxx · 2021-06-06T21:14:48.654Z

Thanks so much for the amazing workshop @jaseknighter, Its given me a serious amount of inspiration. Looking forward to the next session!

Doom · 2021-06-06T22:27:36.686Z

@jaseknighter thanks for the great session. I couldn’t believe it when you said that we had 15 minutes left, i could have gone for hours longer.

Looking forward to the next one!

oora · 2021-06-06T23:23:13.779Z

Hey guys! is this available to buy and watch later? i missed it

SMesquida · 2021-06-07T06:15:28.458Z

I’m pretty sure it would be available to buy and watch later.

jaseknighter · 2021-06-07T06:17:37.841Z

@alexblaxx and @Doom thank you so much for attending. It makes me very glad that you enjoyed yourselves!

@oora I’m really sorry you missed today’s session, but it will be available as a video in about a week and there’s also the session on the 20th that you haven’t missed.