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justharmonicon

a subharmonic sequencer for norns and just friends

jh_polyrhythm

not much new here. but I thought I’d share anyway. this script is the result of one of many scripting exercises that was written some time ago. with this one I put my focus on drawing lines, rectangles and squares and some music math. at the time I was very interested in whole concept of the moog subharmonicon but I did’t really need one or wanted to buy one, so I studied the manual and attempted to do something with the tools I had around. just friends seemed perfect for the job due to its six oscillators that can be addressed independently. also, around the time I had started writing justharmonicon @stvnrlly had released subharmoniclone so I decided against adding an engine for sound synthesis and I won’t be adding one in the future. However, most of the plumbing is already there and would be happy to assist anyone who would like to add an engine as a personal scripting exercise. hope you enjoy this one, looking forward to hear what you make with it.

Requirements

  • norns
  • crow
  • just friends

Documentation

The video above (not the very best I admit) is a brief demo of justharmonicon. There’s a lot to explore and sometimes it takes a while to find the sweet-spots but it has led me to magical places… please share your discoveries!

The user manual can be downloaded here as PDF . You will have a the latest copy on your norns too, once the script is installed or updated. SMB to dust/code/justharmonicon/doc to access.

Download

install via maiden community catalog or via repl:

;install https://github.com/sonocircuit/justharmonicon

or download via GitHub:

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Congratulations @sonocircuit!! Another awesome script from you.
Thanks a lot fort sharing! :pray: :heart_eyes:

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amazing!!! it sounds really incredible, it quickly gets to some great musical territory. the ui is superb also, really really really inspiring stuff.

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This is my dream script. I can’t wait to mess around with it! Thank you for building this!

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Norns → Crow → Just Friends
Our holy trinity!
This sequencer is beautiful, great theory and a really brilliant AI!
What a wonderful world!

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Thank you all for your kind words :heart: makes me happy to see folks enjoying the script.

I kept the docs pretty lightweight so if there are any questions let me know. One thing I’d like to explain a bit, which is not covered in the docs is the voice allocation parameter. Depending on its setting, the oscillator voices (osc1 + both sub osc / osc2 + both sub osc) are assigned to the JF voices (IDENTITY - 6N) differently. I chose to add this feature due to the fact that the depth of FM INDEX affects the individual voices INTONE-style when turned CCW. So depending on the voice allocation setting one can add a little FM to the primary oscillators only, or the both second sub oscillators, or the sub-oscillators of the second voice etc…

Have fun experimenting :slight_smile:

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That looks incredible – hopefully i find the time to dive deep enough into it to add midi-capabilities. Or is this something you might add in the future?

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I don’t have crow, just popping in to say this Norns UI is stunning and clean. Awesome work here.

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Thanks!

I personally won’t add either an engine or midi but am happy to assist and/or answer any questions. If you find the time, give it a shot!

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