#291

Was able to pick my Crow up today. Very fun device. I was able to get my Norns script, Circles, talking to crow without much trouble. Hoping to finish this up this weekend and get an update out. Thanks to everyone involved!

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#292

Really enjoying first. Will be jumping into lua & druid studies soon.

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#293

Have got crow M4L working and it’s great. Here’s Numerology VST in Live 10 driving crow and Just Friends into W/:slight_smile:

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#294

I modified the Norns Earthsea script to send CV to Plaits et al. via Crow, and to do some ultra-simple looping via Softcut. I’ve been working with more complex randomized Softcut arrangements too, which is absolutely magical, but I don’t think much of that made it into this recording. Really enjoying all the different dimensions of non-synced repetition (note sequences from Earthsea, timbre modulation within Eurorack, long delay via Softcut).

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#295

Will be jumping into lua & druid studies soon.

Are there druid studies yet, or any studies/tutorials starting from basics? Is someone able to list all the current instructional documents? I’m all over the place at the Crow docs page, Crow docs reference page, various github readmes, and still very possible I’m missing some essential stuff. (Not complaining to be clear, just want to make sure I read all things I need to and minimize treasure hunts)

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#296

Don’t know where to ask this as it’s between Norns and Crow but will Norns support asl natively?

I probably haven’t thought it through entirely as I know asl is for arbitrary cv and Norns can’t produce that. But it might be useful to be able to create the same shapes on Norns? What do you think?

#297

When I made a bunch of Slashes boards a while back, I didn’t expect to have a use for the quad one I made…

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First is up and running. Question for anyone: I’m not finding that first detects clock from Wogglebug or from Maths EOC. What clock sources have people found to work or not work?

Only just got it up and running, so I still have to dive into the scripts and see what it’s doing. Excited to get going!

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#298

So far I have used a Mangrove, Just Friends, and an Ansible for clocking. No problems to report.

#299

Ansible and Just Friends are also working for me, as is Maths-as-LFO. Less luck with Make Noise triggers, so far. This is by no means exhaustive… Still some investigation on my end to do.

#300

Marbles (Cara, really, but same thing) worked great for me this morning for both clocking (input 1) and scale/harmonic CV (input 2), for what it’s worth.

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#301

yes indeed. right now you just pass the ASL as a string (ie, enclosed in quotes) but we’re working on a tricky way to get around this possibly.

see this tutorial: https://github.com/monome/crow-studies/blob/master/4-shapes.lua

ie on norns:

crow.output[2].action = "{to(8,0.15),to(0,1)}"

is the same as this on crow directly:

output[2].action = {to(8,0.15),to(0,1)}

so norns ASL lacks no functionality

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#302

i read the question as, “can norns use the A/S/L framework directly as a way to specify signals,” not a quetsion about whether druid and norns use identical syntax to send commands to crow. (at the moment, they are similar but not identical - A/S/L functions have to be escaped as shown above -but we may be able to change this in the near future.)

to be clear, norns does not itself host an A/S/L interpreter and can’t do anything with those commands.

to do so is technically straightforward at the software level, if a little more complex. but the applications are nebulous since norns doesn’t have DC voltage generators. (or are the outputs DC coupled? realizing that i don’t actually know.) anything like that would have to have deeper plumbing into the crone layer of norns, or into an external engine.

i think that with care, there are applications for something like A/S/L for audio rate lua execution. i’m working on some POCs in that direction. but it’s a bigger and potentially divergent question.

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#303

This setup is great! Any audio or video of it playing? Would love to hear this combo!!! SUPER COOL

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#304

I’m considering buying Just Friends for its polyphonic capabilities. Am I right to assume it handles enveloping and vcas by itself in poly mode ?

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#305

Yup!

In synthesis mode, the TIME knob controls the envelope duration, while the INTONE knob control’s the balance between attack and decay times as complementary percentages of the total envelope time (like the RAMP knob in shape mode). RAMP and CURVE determine waveshape/timbre.

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#306

Thanks for the clarification.

#307

More Crow - First - examples ? :blush:

#308

There is a clip on my Instagram . At the moment that’s all I’ve posted with this smaller case. :slight_smile:

#309

can you please elaborate?

earthsea crow and jf as voice?
what exactly is going on?

it’s a lovely demo

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#310

@glia you’re very kind! happy to provide more detail.

earthsea is playing a looped pattern through just friends in poly-mode. intone sweeps slowly left to right, ramp lives just past noon, and curve sits slightly shy of fully clockwise. all output goes directly to clouds, whose buffer is then frozen and pitch-shifted up a fifth to create the drone. the right output of clouds is multed back to just friends as fm, while both are sent to norns for reverb and recording. the blend progresses from wet to dry as a crossfade between melodic and ambient sections. all modulation accomplished by hand!

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