Forge

Forge

A playable oscilloscope for norns and crow that works just as well without crow if you prefer.

forge

In a nutshell it’s a note making machine, drawing the low frequency cycles it receives from an attached crow’s inputs or a pair of internal LFOs or a combination of the two, and spawning notes at a regular (configurable) cadence where the lines intersect.

From there the newly formed notes are conveyed through optional step and scale quantization and eventually played into a dealer’s choice of outputs of the engine, i2c, and/or MIDI varieties.

Requirements

Nothing’s required, per se, but the experience is better with a crow. It’ll play out to W/Syn, Disting EX, JF, and MIDI, to boot.

Documentation

Install directly from the maiden library or from the command line with: ;install https://github.com/cachilders/forge.git

Transport is controlled by K3, and K1 + K3 lets you stop and flush the player roll. Speaking of K1 combos, there are some immediate controls for fine-tuning the oscilloscope. K1 + ENC1 adjusts the sample frequency. K1 + ENC2/3 trims the legroom and headroom respectively. Most everything else can be controlled by parameters.

A note on the crow outputs. They’re disabled initially, but should you use them: 2 and 4 are gates. 1 is a frequency derived from the MIDI note created by the generator (quantized or unquantized per param). 3 is the raw frequency of the graph intersection, optionally offset to be unipolar.

That’s it. The rest is for exploration. I hope it’s all smooth sailing, but bug reports and feature requests are welcome.

Download

v0.999.3(Fix for fatal bug when resuming quantization with some outputs) -
forge-0.999.3.zip (111.0 KB)

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Super cool idea, thank you for this! Looking forward to trying it out!

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neato script concept!

first session with it last night.
i don’t have a crow so this is just the script doing it’s thing.
also running Cheat Codes 2 and the new Bloom by @infinitedigits!

other noiz provided by Pulsar 23 with Utilities and Czochrolski Cells

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Just put this + my Pittsburgh Chain Reactor at the top of the “Patch Ideas” heading in my journal. Can’t wait!

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This is rad. Thank you for sharing it!

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