#167

A couple of great iOS apps I want to recommend(unless anyone else has)

sFTP(great for getting tape recordings to your phone etc):
FTP Manager

ssh from your phone:
Terminus

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#168

have been mulling whether to buy a small 20-40 key thing (like the mpk mini ) for midi wrangling w/ norns

the price of most options has been just enough to give me pause
plus…i’m illogically keyboard averse when making music and only cave in as a last resort

maxs
so i’m hyped to have found these on ebay somehow
a bus powered class compliant box which has:

  • 4 MIDI sliders
  • 12 MIDI knobs
  • 10 MIDI buttons
  • MIDI crossfader

should be perfect for routing cc’s and triggering a few notes in various apps!

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#169

Looks like there are several to be had quite cheaply on ebay – good find! Please report back with how it works out.

#170

for sure
auction won yesterday and should arrive for testing by week end

my only gripe so far is the panel graphic and worry about texture of fader caps, but i’ll wait to reserve judgement and/or customizing them at some point

all in all cant complain yet!

#171

So here’s an iConnectAudio4+ use case I’m curious about - can I both connect the outs of the Norms to the inputs of the iCA4+, as well as connect the outs of the iCA4+ to the inputs of the Norns? I’d like to record audio into the Norns, pipe it through the iCA4+ to the iPad for processing and saving, then load those samples back through the iCA4+ into the Norns for use in MLR and glut. On paper I think I could set this up and just handle routing via aum.

Thanks for the guidance!

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#172

does anyone know if the Norns function with the midi input/output of the Arturia keystep? Haven’t been able to try this yet but thinking about hooking it up to my Akai S6000 soon.

#173

Do you mean sending midi from norns usb through the keystep and out it’s midi output? I can give this a test tomorrow, I think it works fine though

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#174

correct, both the input and output actually. and thanks!

#175

I get some sporadic hanging notes using my Keystep with Molly the Polly. I think this was addressed somewhere around the time Molly first came out and it was determined to be something wrong on the Keystep side of things, but I’m having trouble finding that post. Edit: That’s discussed here

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#176

I’ve had similar issues in Timber. But very inconsistent.

#177

uhhh it works
realllly well, flawless integration so far

some cc seem to send bipolar data (does that make sense?) while others dont

i so rarely use midi that i dunno if this is normal

the device is light weight and probably wont travel well…but i love it to death already and am dreaming about new or augmented control schemes for various apps

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#178

I think thats normal? I had to set my fh-2 to bipolar to make the cv output more predictable with most modules

#179

Has anyone some experience to share with using one of their smaller stereo configurations, or even the ‘subwoofer’? I wonder how much sense they make in a park/nature situation compared to headphones, which I sometimes would like to avoid. And how do they sound? I have a Bose speaker in the kitchen I could use but of course it is mono and I suppose heavier.

#180

I have a Bose Soundlink Mini II, but heard great things on here about the Minirigs, so I got a couple. Ostensibly this for an installation I was working on, which didn’t end up going ahead, but my original intention was to find a replacement for the Bose anyway. Long story short, I’ve still got the Bose.

I like the form factor of the Minirigs, and the battery life is much better, but I think the Bose just sounds better. They both struggle a bit with resonant sounds with a lot of low freq content, but in the end I decided having two for stereo wasn’t enough of an improvement over the Bose. I also have a few things that use micro usb for charging, and nothing that uses the Minirig barrel-style plug, so having to carry an additional charger when travelling was another factor for me.

Just my $0.02.

#181

Thank you for sharing your experience. I have the classic Bose Sound Link II and it also has a bit resonance in the low frequency area - possibly due to its aim for ‘huge’ sound. But using it saves the subwoofer and it still sounds very nice of course. So it seems with the Minirigs one would get stereo for the price of perceived sound quality.

I feel like if one really uses the stereo image it sometimes makes up for a loss of sound quality. But if not, the perceived roominess of modern Bose portables maybe plays out again as they do not sound very mono anymore. Also the low freq resonance does feel less prominent outside.

What I still like, without having heard them, is how they fit in the minimalistic picture of just Norns, Grid and three cables. I might look out for some cheap ones at ebay to have this experience for a minimal cost factor would fit in well too.

#182

Ikea are coming out with some really nice portable speakers at the moment. The designs look very Dieter Rams/Braun inspired to me. All would be norns friendly (have aux line in):
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#183

Do you have a link to these? Curious about price and what not

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#184

https://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/10357396/
https://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/cat/enceintes-40842/

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#185

Thanks! I was really excited about these until I realized they’re mono. They just may do the trick though for summer drinks in the backyard and the odd Norns noodle :heart:

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#186

I just ordered a Sandstrom SCBTS17 wireless/bluetooth speaker which came highly recommended by a friend whose ears I trust. It got the aesthetic seal of approval from my wife so everyone’s happy. Obviously it has aux in for attaching to Norns/anything you fancy