#40

You are a fount of knowledge and I appreciate your responses! Thank you!

#41

Im wondering if there is a way to decouple the trigger and note pages like what is possible with rene2? I was feeling inspired by this recent make noise video and wanted to attempt with Kria but getting stuck on not being able to continue a stream of note cv after a single gate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi7t4hwYUSs

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#42

There is a few ways to achieve it! But first you have to press the 2nd button on the module itself change the loop and note syncs to be off (https://monome.org/docs/ansible/kria/#config). After that, you can have each different page (gates/ratchet, notes/alt-note, octave/slew, gate duration) individually loop freely and have their own clock division. Another useful trick is to change the ratcheting behaviour for each track (2nd column, first 4 rows on scale page), which can allow for legato.

In my opinion, this is what makes kria such a great sequencer! If it had some more options for external modulation I would argue that it’s the best sequencer in eurorack. Incredibly immediate and playable!

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#43

Totally agree with you here. Its an amazing sequencer! Hopefully with the new crow firmware we will see some ability to have more external modulation. What would you like to see added?

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#44

Some type of integrated sample and hold a la Rene would be great, maybe some automated scale changes, pattern changes, note shift on certain steps (could fit this under the gate length page with a second press, setting a range of how much shift per step…)… I can come up with heaps of ways that would be interesting and useful!
crow could be a really logical expander, with norns being able to extend some control over kria and crow (within itself or via other connected controllers) as well as configure the ins and outs with how would interact with ansible.

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#45

I struggle so much with trying to effectively use Kria - I wish someone would do a decent video tutorial for melodic usage and then for drum patterns. Something that starts simple and builds up to the more advanced techniques. A bit like @dan_derks recent Norns/Maiden tutorial which was presented really well.

When attempting to learn myself I rarely feel like I know what I am doing and I generally am left feeling like I might be the only one that can’t grasp it but I imagine I am not alone!

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#46

I might actually take up the challenge for this. I know kria inside out and would love to share my love for it :slight_smile: Not sure if my computer will be up to the task of editing it, but I might give it a shot over the coming week or so. Keep me busy through lockdown!

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#47

That would be amazing - if you want a guinea pig with minimal knowledge just shout via DM

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#48

That would be brilliant! Kria has become such a powerful and richly rewarding thing, but there’s relatively little out there talking through what it can do. I always feel like I’m only scratching the surface myself.

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#49

I will jump on the bandwagon here as well, I would LOVE that. Thanks @Puscha!

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#50

Hey @Puscha - this would be great and if I can help in any way, let me know!

I’m in the process of digging deeper into Kria myself - aiming to go beyond either vanilla sequencing or “random” paraphony in order to be hopefully more intentional with the advanced features, so this would be timely.

Happy to help with editing if that makes it easier to approach (not sure how that would work in practical terms but the offer is real).

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#51

Haha okay @dangriffiths, @SimonKirby, @yobink and @chailight, seems like there’s plenty of interest for it, I’ll give it a shot!

Until then, here’s a video that I posted last night in another thread, a one take improvisation demonstrating kria as a playable sequencer, to whet your appetites:

Thanks for the offer for editing @chailight, I’ll see if I can edit by proxy first, but will let you know if I need help editing. Thank you for the offer! :slight_smile:

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#52

Wanted to tag on dynamic probability to this (like a fader scaled 0 - 100 that can be played). I like to play voices by writing sequences and bringing things in and out via a prob slider (rather than level), then sweet-spot those sliders into a loop and ‘play’ the dynamic attributes of the synth.

I’ve actually spent the past few months on a semi-universal TT script that does many of the things @puscha mentioned with Kria via a faderbank and plan to learn crow in order to transfer that functionality there and free up some HP.

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#53

I agree…I spent many hours digging through old Kria threads trying to figure out how to use many of the beta functions that were eventually incorporated into the most recent formal release…but once I stepped away from it for a few months I lost everything. At the time I had made some notes and cheat sheets but alas lost all of those at some point while reorganizing my studio space…

Even something as simple as a visual walkthrough of what all the different Glyphs do when they are activated would be so useful. Even through the monome documentation spells it out, I find that seeing real life examples could be so useful…

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#54

Wow amazing! That’s quite exciting, can’t wait to see what you may put together in time!

@gnome666 (and the rest of you!), I just spent the better half of a day getting a start on making an in depth video tutorial about all the different features of kria, for beginners to advanced features, including an explanation of the different configurations/glyphs. Not sure how long it will take for me to get it all together but expect to see it soon. Hope it will make some sense for you :slight_smile:

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#55

Thanks so much for doing this! Looking forward to diving in

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#56

thank you! :pray: can’t wait to see it :slight_smile:

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#57

As a way of getting through lockdown v2.0 here in Melbourne (now at level 4), I’ve given myself the challenge to post one video a week of building up a sequence on kria from scratch as a one take improvised performance. Last week I posted my kria tutorial instead, but I’ve just uploaded my second video:

I can share them in this thread if anyone is interested in seeing more as they come out :heart:

Would also love to see what others are doing with kria!

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#58

Kria improv video number 3, coming in a little earlier. Happy with how this one came out. This is really helping me get through current circumstanes.

Mandolin loops recorded onto Morphagene for granular symphonic bliss.

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#59

Looking to change patterns in Kria smoothly and am finding that kr.clk does not carry through to other patterns (specifically of interest wrt to the gates), so every time I change a pattern I’m back to the ‘1’ of the new pattern, which is a bit immersion-breaking + means that if I switch back and forth between two patterns, I get the ‘same’ Kria outputs, as opposed to the progressive cross-rhythm-ness of leaving just one pattern playing indefinitely.

Any known work-arounds for this?