#450

Can someone confirm the feasibility of this? @Galapagoose maybe?

Feeding an external clock and connecting the 16n via MIDI to map the fader values to pitch? I’d be happy to try scripting it myself but I don’t have Crow yet. However, this would certainly convince me of getting one.

#451

so in a brief moment of seeming affluence I managed to buy a crow!

Had fun last night playing with the chaotic clocks I’ve been thinking abut recently. I have a couple of questions:

  1. It looks like I can trivially move my script over to the Norns by adding crow. before all the relevant commands & then add some midi/sofcut to my script. Nice! however I’m running the chaotic clock thing in a fast metro on the crow - I’m pretty sure the current answer is ‘no’ but are there any plans to allow the processing power of the crow to be used remotely - offload functions on to it while driving from Norns (or Max)?

  2. Teletype integration - surprised I can’t find much discussion of this on the forum. It would be so nice to even do trivial stuff like tt.trigger_script(1). Are there any plans? or are there technical blockers (leader/follower type stuff)?

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#452

Very excited to see crow integration in islands! What a brilliant tool that will be…

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#453

Both of these questions have open git issues:

1. If you have specific ideas about how the integration of the 2 devices should work, please leave your comments on the issue. The proposed solution is just extending the lua libraries, so in theory you can already do it with some adventurous code.

2. Existing discussion has only touched on allowing crow to follow teletype. In order to allow teletype to receive commands from crow, the teletype firmware would need to be updated to dynamically switch between leader/follower (something I don’t plan to take on personally). It would be really cool to see someone pick that up for the TT firmware though!

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#454

I always forget about the git discussions when I’m looking for things :frowning:

I shall have a look

#456

Just wanted to say a big thank you to @tehn & @Galapagoose for crow.

Now the community live stream is over (I had the same setup on my modular for about a week for that) - I got to sit down and start playing with some ideas I have. The whole set-up of being able to write code in the heart of my modular with the sound generation being done by nice hardware and me having total control via code (TT does this a bit but there are obviously a lot of constraints - crow is much freer) is really liberating. Really exciting

On my morning walk I found myself speculating what a super Crow might look like - lots of ins and outs, , some knobs, beefy processor, audio rates… one can always dream :wink:

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#457

I’d like to see crow specific expanders. Similar to how it works with ii devices, except something like an output expander that only takes asl commands and outputs CV.

#458

Crow could probably a pretty good Crow expander :sweat_smile: wonder what it would take to get them communicating?

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#459

The TXi currently works as an input expander.

As far as I know, the TXo output expander isn’t supported by the current firmware, but I understand that it’s in beta.

Unfortunately, neither are currently in stock bcpmusic, but you may be able to source a DIY one(?).

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#460

This appears to be possible. Typing ii.crow.help() produces the following list of commands:

-- commands
ii.crow.output( channel, level )
ii.crow.slew( channel, time )
ii.crow.call1( arg )
ii.crow.call2( arg1, arg2 )
ii.crow.call3( arg1, arg2, arg3 )
ii.crow.call4( arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4 )

-- request params
ii.crow.get( 'input', channel )
ii.crow.get( 'output', channel )
ii.crow.get( 'query0' )
ii.crow.get( 'query1', arg1 )
ii.crow.get( 'query2', arg1 )
ii.crow.get( 'query3', arg1, arg2 )

-- then receive
ii.crow.event = function( e, data )
if e == 'input' then
-- handle input response
elseif e == 'output' then
elseif e == 'query0' then
elseif e == 'query1' then
elseif e == 'query2' then
elseif e == 'query3' then
end
end

I hadn’t considered Crow as a Crow expander before, but it seems like it’d be pretty powerful since you could use them together or separate, as needed.

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#461

Yeah. Ansible , txo will expand ordinary outputs but don’t give you A/S/L - I wonder if TXo can be modified though?

I found TXo boards & front plate at pusherman. Mouser reckon early June for my delivery of the parts (which I realise Is in a couple of weeks. Time flies in a lockdown).

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#462

Exciting. I’ve also contemplated if TXo can be modified to understand A/S/L.

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#463

Just started looking at a telexi myself for expanding the crow a little. I find the two input limit tends to block my ideas. I put my expression of interest in at bpcmusic :slight_smile:

#464

Something @Galapagoose said in one of the earlier live streams got me wondering: Is a bigger crow … perhaps a raven… a consideration? Down the road.

I love love love my crows, and I intend to get another. I respect it’s limitations as is. That said, more native i/o could be tremendously useful. Particularly inputs, from my personal exploration so far. TXi is perfectly fine, but I am curious!

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#465

It’s almost as if github is not a musician-facing platform. :grimacing:

#467

I personally would love to see multiple crows be linkable to allow for more i/o for scripts or for norns apps.

#468

this has always been one of the design goals… in process: https://github.com/monome/crow/issues/5

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#469

I personally would love to see a murder, you mean

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#470

I have been thinking this myself recently. Triple or quadruple its inputs & outputs and call it a murder.
My issue is I have an Odessa oscillator with the Hel expander and it can do 1, 3, or 5 voices. I want to obtain a crow so I can sequence MIDI in Live, or play it on a Push 2, and have an independent pitch voltage output per each individual MIDI note. With Crow’s 4 outs, I can only take advantage of 3/5 of Odessa’s voices. So I’ll probably just get 2 as soon as they’re in stock again. That way I’ll always have a few extra outs for gate and whatever even if I’m using a polyphonic sequence with all 5 voices. But yeah if there was a version with more ins & outs I’d just get that.

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#471

This is true for the brand one I just received as well – any updates / advice on how to best fit crow into a rack? The mounting holes just seem a bit too far apart. I’ve tried both my Intellijel Palette 4U 62 and an Arturia Rack Brute 3U :thinking: