Hologram Electronics

FunkyAndj · 2021-08-20T16:18:58.225Z

Just curious. Have y’all found specific scripts on Norns that do similar things to the Microcosm? I know there’s lots of granular stuff on Norns but just curious if people have any favorites.

AKE · 2021-08-25T21:12:03.921Z

FunkyAndj:

Just curious. Have y’all found specific scripts on Norns that do similar things to the Microcosm?

I was wondering the same

Xylr · 2021-08-25T22:26:55.392Z

I thiiiiink I’ve played with all of the granular scripts on Norns, but I have not played with Microcosm. So take this with a grain of salt. I do not think that anything in Norns-world behaves like the Microcosm pedal does. My impression is that Microcosm gives you some knobs to adjust some macro parameters but that by and large, at least as far as the granular effects go, it’s a bit of a black box. It kinda just does its thing to your input. Maybe Clouds in the MI engine/pedalboard would be the closest?

It seems accurate to say (someone correct me if I am wrong?) that granular Norns scripts require you to make some settings choices or at the very least to interact with some controls in order to get things going. Maybe not always as fun if you feel like zoning out and letting the mystery box do the heavy lifting, but if you have an idea of what specific Microcosm sounds you want to get out of your Norns, it’s pretty likely that you could do so.

goldfarb · 2021-08-26T01:55:39.730Z

readers of this thread might want to know that, likely due to the current popularity of the Microcosm - Dream Sequence and Infinite Jets are on sale atm

mattymattmatt · 2021-08-26T19:05:47.022Z

This is an excellent note. Microcosm certainly has the spotlight (and it’s wonderful) but IJ is still one of my all-time favorite pedals. It does cool stuff.

jsilence · 2022-03-14T11:36:58.358Z

With the Hologram Microcosm pedal in high demand, and with a price tag way beyond my budget, I was wondering whether there are Norns patches that operate in the same ballpark of sound design.

Any recommendations?

ParliamentLite · 2022-03-14T12:00:07.763Z

I’ve seen Granchild compared to Microcosm before. Also Barcode is a bit different, but a really fun script.

Helen · 2022-03-14T12:08:17.900Z

jsilence:

Any recommendations?

Suggest trying oooooo by our very own Infinite Digits!

secretstates · 2022-03-14T12:31:30.610Z

Nothing yet quite like a Microcosm but there are plenty of scripts that can do ‘weird’ sounds. Other than those listed,

Glitchlets is definitely worth a look

Granchild is amazing

Blndr too

All by @infinitedigits who I’m sure could add more to the conversation

jsilence · 2022-03-14T14:10:05.820Z

Thank you all for the suggestions, will check them out

danbond · 2022-03-14T14:41:48.812Z

I’d also say Twine is one of my favourite soundscape devices on Norns. I never use the live input on it (does it have live input?!!!) but things get pretty “ambient textured” using that.

jatwo · 2022-03-14T14:56:37.204Z

I’m not a microcosm expert, but depending on what you goals are, here-there might get you in a similar neighborhood

secretstates · 2022-03-14T15:26:12.178Z

Nice, I’ve not seen this before

jsilence · 2022-03-14T15:59:26.009Z

Me neither. Will have to explore.

andrewhuang · 2022-03-26T17:11:59.561Z

Was extremely pleased with this experiment controlling Microcosm with MIDI CCs. The patch on its own is nothing special (random bloops in a major key) but sending the output through Microcosm while modulating a bunch of its parameters, using its reverb, and especially, modulating its preset selection, got me to this magical place.

mattymattmatt · 2022-03-26T17:25:33.620Z

That is really nice stuff. Also, Chord V2 does not get enough love for how great it is.

scottmoon · 2022-03-26T17:39:07.381Z

Yeah, I found using an Korg SQ-1 midi out to modulate parameters has opened a whole new world of the Microcosm.

robinrimbaud · 2022-03-26T21:03:26.643Z

marvellous stuff. Hope the plant gets a writing credit though!

casualdecay · 2022-05-13T09:00:39.083Z

Got a Microcosm a few weeks ago and I’m noticing some strange behavior. After really sitting down and focusing on it tonight, it seems to just… stop sending my dry signal through the effects of that dry signal gets too hot. Like it’s like “nope, that’s too loud, we’re not gonna let you throw more delay with a bunch of repeats on there”. Has anyone else experienced this?

My solo stuff is ambient so not a huge issue there, but I’m also using it with a punk band I play in and that behavior is really annoying when I’m just trying to crank shit and make things loud haha.

secretstates · 2022-05-13T15:34:20.831Z

Is it set to instrument or line level? Does it have the most recent firmware?

When I had one my issue was that I wasn’t sending a hot enough signal to it.

In my experience the pedal does seem to behave rather arbitrarily at times and not always in a cool random way.