I personally would love to see multiple crows be linkable to allow for more i/o for scripts or for norns apps.
tehn
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this has always been one of the design goals… in process: https://github.com/monome/crow/issues/5
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naxuu
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I personally would love to see a murder, you mean
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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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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 
Reg. mounting a crow into a Palette case: Try loosening the screws for the middle mounting rail a bit, then mount all modules, finally tighten the screws again.
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It fits a bit tightly, but I have one in a palette case. I just make sure to mount it first, and leave the screws loose until everything else is in the case.
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I’ve had Crow for a while now, mainly for speaking with Norns. Decided to give ‘First’ a spin leaving me thinking about a line in the introduction “Each crow generates its own unique set of musical content to be scanned and played with voltage control.”. Does this mean that there is a unique version of ‘First’ in each Crow? It kind of sounds like it.
Also, the sequence that ‘First’ outputs is not a straight beat following the clock, at first I thought there was something wrong with the clock I sent to it then I figured maybe the sequence is supposed to be varied like this. I could not find any simple demos of the script running so I hope someone can help me understand the funcionality better. It’s mainly this text that I need help deciphering:
“Start the sequence by patching a clock or LFO into input 1. Each time the voltage rises above 1V First will take a step forward. As the patch comes alive, slow the clock down to hear long gentle swells, then ramp it up into snappy arpeggios.”
Thanks.
coreyr
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Yes! First is different on each crow, the script uses the serial number to seed the sequence.
The attack of the envelope has a slight ramp to it, so if you slow your clock waaaay down, the envelope signal should ramp up slowly.
If you speed the clock up, you get arpeggiation.
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Ok I will try some more. But the envelopes are not supposed to follow every beat of the clock?
Zeke_B
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Today I received my crow. I’d read descriptions and thought the relationship between a crow’s daily behavior and the way a crow ships was really cool and wondered if it was slightly embellished. I was happy to be proven wrong.
Tonight I followed the instructions in the box for connecting the crow on a first flight and connected it to Mangrove and Chainsaw. I just sat back and listened to my crow sing for a while. It was lovely.
Thank you to everyone who worked on crow. As a first experience with a Monome product, I’m a little blown away. (The thought that each crow is unique almost makes me want to get a second. Hahaha) Did anyone else have a similar experience?
I’m going to record a passage of its song soon and post it in the comments. If anyone else wants to share their crow’s song I’d love to hear it.
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Mine sings like this:
Tides 2018 and Plaits, delay by Mimeophon
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Zeke_B
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Also a beautiful song! Thanks for sharing this! Hopefully I can get mine up today.
Zeke_B
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Here is my crow’s song. crow into Mangrove and Chainsaw, Batumi for clock and scale partway through.
Also, I haven’t been on SoundCloud in forever and the integration with Live is too easy.
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Oootini
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Ooh. Love these. This sounds like a cool idea! Will try and post something.
digging this beauty and wondering if it can work as a MIDI 3.5 TRS to i2c (teletype) converter suitable for an er-301 by writing a proper lua script or it’s a totally different tool for totally different purposes.
Thanks!
glia
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assuming you have 301 and teletype…what exactly are you trying to do? you probably don’t need crow for the task 
and regarding midi via trs
that feature may have been part of initial plans but has since been scrapped iirc
dev team can correct me if i’m wrong
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I’d love to connect my MIDI controller to ER-301 via i2c,
so I just need a MIDI 3.5trs -> i2c converter like the Transit prototype by Drillionaire,
but I’ve seen there’s no ready solutions but tons of unfinished project.
Crow seems to be the perfect i2c control swiss army knife,
and if it could be good a MIDI to i2c converter for er-301,
would just be perfect.
Thanks!
@glia is correct. We scrapped TRS MIDI on crow before launch because it just wasn’t reliable enough.
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i have a dumb question. can i connect a crow output to a device that simply has two pads - one for ground and one for voltage? e.g., i am wondering how i can solder wires to such a device so crow can send it cv. i have no modular equipment whatsoever so thats probably why my question may seem dumb - i don’t know if it makes sense to use crow without any modular stuff.
with context: i think crow+norns fits a recent aspiration of mine to make a polyphonic korg monotron delay (using 3 crow outputs for three pitches, and 1 crow output for cutoff). the korg monotron delay has a pad for ground and a pad for pitch voltage control that you can solder wires to and send voltages to. i used a little dac + a raspberry pi to do this before. if i can connect crow outputs to this, it would be awesome (crow 16bit > mcp4725 12bit! and i could control from norns!)
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