Friends of norns: gear, accessories, etc

noiserock · 2019-12-02T16:04:41.622Z

[image] Made this some time back, brains is an Arduino uno I had laying around. Made it to control mlr and the Ableton Live looper. Sends midi cc through the usb. I’ve been meaning to put together a guide. With the possibility of connecting an expression pedal to it as well.

corpusjonsey · 2019-12-02T16:09:52.421Z

I have a DMC 8, and a Logidy UMI-3 that I can try after work. I’ll report back.

bunkbeds · 2019-12-02T16:29:14.811Z

did you ever put a guide together? this looks perfect

noiserock · 2019-12-02T16:54:31.922Z

Been meaning to get to it. Closest I got was this:

Friends of norns Equipment

Have not had the time to do my little USB MIDI footswitch guide. I used an Arduino Uno because it is the cheapest microcontroller I can get over the shelf here in Oslo. But using a teensy is probably a lot easier, since Teensy has support out of the box for being a USB-device(hence not needing the firmware flashing). The guide I followed is basically this for the Arduino/mechanical building parts: http://www.witchmastercreations.com/arduino-simple-midi-footswitch/ And this as a guide on how …

andrew · 2019-12-02T17:15:31.484Z

arduino + fsr also works pretty well & is silent

IMG_20171213_1408584032×3024 1.52 MB

bunkbeds · 2019-12-02T21:46:48.766Z

sweet, thank you! i looked into going the teensy route and found this:

ask.audio

Building a Simple DIY USB MIDI Controller using Teensy

Teensy is similar to Arduino, but perhaps better suited to making a USB MIDI controller. Liam Lacey shows how to make your own DIY MIDI controller using Teensy

looks incredibly easy and affordable: my rough estimate for bom is like $45. thanks for gettin me on the right track!

instantjuggler · 2019-12-08T04:38:40.135Z

yooooo this is sooooo fun! for sure its the same with norns, i gotta get my dongles in order and then hook it up:

bastl-instruments.com

Illuminati | Bastl Instruments

USB light controller

@tehn church vibes?

LLK · 2019-12-08T13:05:24.847Z

Ah ! As soon as I saw it I wondered if anyone had it working on lines! So cool, what kind of lights are you using?

instantjuggler · 2019-12-08T15:56:07.872Z

i just went on amazon and ordered 8 different kinds of usb lights… not sure if it matters but i tried to only order ones which didn’t have any settings on them- ones that just turn on when you plug them in. though with my limited experience using illuminati so far, i think it might be ok with a really wide variety of lights, just as long as they are usb powered. all 8 of the different lights i ordered worked perfectly! i’m going to look around and see what other usb powered devices i can find like a fan or such…

LLK · 2019-12-08T16:33:27.866Z

This is kind of an amazing news for smaller scale oriented performance, thinking you could have a reactive light setup with such a simple routing… I think I’m going to order one. Thanks a lot for the informations !

andrew · 2020-01-05T19:59:31.874Z

how did you modify it ? seems like it would work as-is

static · 2020-01-06T06:20:29.940Z

I suppose it could’ve been done with some specialty adapter and preserve the original functionality, but I didn’t have that adapter, so I just chose to re-wire it. Didn’t have a use for it otherwise.

This is the guide I found back then I think, but there are certainly others out there.

http://www.dslrfilmnoob.com/2012/11/22/irig-pre-dslr-audio-hack/

Deru · 2020-01-08T03:42:58.282Z

I don’t have a norms yet, but I’m curious if it’s possible to use a class compliant USB audio interface with it to get more outs. Will the hardware allow it, and does the software have a way of addressing the extra ourputs?

zebra · 2020-01-08T06:13:07.651Z

Deru:

Will the hardware allow it,

yes

and does the software have a way of addressing the extra ourputs?

yes and no. some layers of the software (jack, supercollider) are fine with lots of I/O, and some (crone, softcut) would need modification. if you are not making your own software i don’t really recommend this because you will just be asking other developers to make changes that they can’t test and are probably not interested in.

thopa · 2020-01-13T18:43:00.275Z

Not reinventing the wheel or anything here, but i made an arc sized midi controller (teensy) for my norns (fates) pretty much based on the Four n 128.