@fever606 I honestly haven’t tried audio over usb yet. I would imagine audio over usb on a norns shield like mine would introduce noise, since it’s charging the tula from the same place.
I feel like I read about this on a post pertaining to the OP-Z and peeps trying to use the onboard mic over usb.
I found that pressing the recorded button twice didn’t create a new file for the on board memory as long as I didn’t wait too long between presses.
I’ll edit this post when I plug it in and see how the norns recognizes it.
Does anyone have mappings of how they used a nanokontrol with Norns apps, or does it just work when you plug it in? I had a nanokontrol briefly but couldn’t get it to talk to my Fates (Fates recognized it was connected though!)
Does anyone have script recommendations for a suitcase setup containing 0-coast, 0-ctrl, norns, and grid?
I’ve been using a lot of less concepts 3, but doesnt really include 0-ctrl at all. It would be nice to have a app that clocks the 0-ctrl and then records time synced audio loops, but I haven’t found one.
I’m going to build a quantizer soon and hopefully that will help it all gel better.
The norns Emacs friendship is developing. Today my configuration adventures reached an important milestone of a relatively stable procedure from norns startup to running SuperCollider Patterns code from Emacs in sclang-mode, without turning off norns features or starting a second SuperCollider scsynth process, but connecting to the one the whatever norns script starts.
I think in this thread someone said earlier that Midi Baby worked fine with their Norns. I’m leaning into getting a Midi Baby because it’s cheaper. But I also found a thread online where many people said Midi Baby has many bugs and weird design choices with the software that have not been addressed despite the developer promising to do so. Anyone else had experience with either of these? Or are there better/cheaper alternatives available? I cant really DIY anything so thats not an option.
I’m thinking of taking my norns shield and a small synth (volca keys or nts-1) out of the house. The output via headphones out of the shield is quite low (at home I use a Mackie mixer). Can anyone recommend a small friend that might help? A bastl dude mixer, or some kind of headphone amp perhaps?
I’m doing this kind of thing by using NTS-1 as a “headphone amp”. NTS-1 is a friend. So four items: a battery, norns shield, NTS-1 and Etymotic ER2-XR headphones connected like so:
Let there be house, but also most certainly let there be out of the house now that we have summer here in the Northern hemisphere. Parks+synths=why not?
That’s great! What battery do you use? And do you have to do anything in particular with the norns output level to balance things? I don’t think the nts-1 has any kind of input gain control, does it?
I’m not sure what the battery is, some little blue one I bought once on my travels. It does not provide stable voltage for more intensive (synthy or delay) norns software but all sequencers are super fine.
Nothing particular, just turning knobs on the levels page of norns and often pumping up the norns while keeping the NTS-1 basically as low as possible, just a millimeter or two up from silent. On some norns scripts (e.g. Orca) you can control the MIDI velocity to bring down NTS-1. I often use NTS-1 more as an effect when on the go.
Being a total brute, I often just use the filter . NTS-1 does have input gain control though, from the manual, with asterisk * indicating the default value of -6dB.
Now that it comes up, I should actually adjust mine because I think NTS-1 synths are super loud compared to incoming audio.
I don’t know about Summit, but MIDI over USB is the way to send and receive MIDI on norns. I use it every day with OP-Z and both directions work very well on the same cable.
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