#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:

#472

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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#473

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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#474

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.

#475

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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#476

Ok I will try some more. But the envelopes are not supposed to follow every beat of the clock?

#477

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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#478

Mine sings like this:

Tides 2018 and Plaits, delay by Mimeophon

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#479

Also a beautiful song! Thanks for sharing this! Hopefully I can get mine up today.

#480

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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#481

Ooh. Love these. This sounds like a cool idea! Will try and post something.

#482

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!

#483

assuming you have 301 and teletype…what exactly are you trying to do? you probably don’t need crow for the task :slightly_smiling_face:

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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