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grendy

a simple drone synth, grendel drone commander inspired…

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Requirements

  • Norns/Fates
  • MIDI keyboard (optional, allows round-robin tuning OSC1 and OSC2)

Download

Important: After downloading and installing, you must run RESET or SLEEP before running.

Install from community packages section of Maiden, or manually install…

Download the latest release and copy files to ~/dust/code/grendy.

Tutorial

KEY2: randomize OSC/MIXER
KEY3: randomize FILTER/LFO

ENC1: FILTER freq
ENC2: OSC1 freq
ENC3: OSC2 freq

KEY1+ENC1: FILTER res
KEY1+ENC2: LFO freq
KEY1+ENC3: LFO depth

Tweak even more parameters via [PARAMS] > [EDIT] page

MIDI input round-robin sets OSC1 and OSC2 freq

Synth Architecture

  • OSC: two oscillators, each crossfaded between square and triangle shapes
  • MIXER: balance control between OSC1 and OSC2
  • FILTER: Moog-modeled filter with cutoff and resonance control
  • LFO: saw and click shapes, crossfaded, affecting filter cutoff with depth control
    • SAW: frequency control
    • CLICK: rate control (N times SAW frequency), pulse width control
  • AMP: final volume control

Developing

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I was fortunate enough to “beta test” Grendy this afternoon, it’s great fun, especially with the random functions. Look forward to seeing what the future holds for it :slight_smile:

Love seeing weird little synth experiments like this and Benjolis coming out for the norns.

Thanks to the authors, as always <3

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#3

The demo sounds great. Thanks for this!

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#4

Demo sounds interesting, I’ll give it a spin.

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#5

Looks like a great engine to study for supercollider dev as well! Nice work!

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#6

Thanks y’all! Looking forward to any feedback UX and/or code wise :slight_smile: This is my first Norns and SC scripting experience so I have much to learn!

FWIW: my favorite recipe right now is to run Grendy and Cranes tapes into Uhf to make an ambient “mixtape” of previous recordings. Very inspiring!

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#7

Great work! The ability to slow the lfo beyond 0.1hz would be great.

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#8

Cool! Still regret selling my drone commander a few years ago

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#9

Really great little instrument, nice work! makes a great partner with Benjolis!

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#10

this is a super nice track!

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#11

thanks and thanks again for Benjolis!

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