#62

if you’re an ableton or max person there’s a project brewing over here

in the relatively near-ish future this will probably result in an ableton pack of ports of some popular grid-enabled apps from norns

re: laptop vs. norns I’d recommend sticking with whatever option you’re most comfortable with

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#63

Also: for fun, I found another USB cable to try. Same issues.

#64

My Walnut 64 grid does not work if I plug it through a hub. Got a USB-C to USB-B cable just for the purpose to plug my grid to my macbook.

#65

Was yours not lighting up when it was plugged into the hub? Or was it not being recognized like mine?

I don’t know if I mentioned but I’m using a 128 Varibright in this situation.

#66

I believe so. Can’t remember. But getting a direct cable worked.

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#67

can confirm that USB-regular hubs work on my regular USB Mac

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#68

I just ordered on on Amazon. It’ll be here tomorrow. I appreciate everyone’s help. It’s frustrating but happy to see this community trying assist me :pray:

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#69

USB hubs are fine generally. they vary wildly in quality, of course.

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#70

Makes sense. Any ideas other than trying to avoid the hub??

#72

if at all possible i’d suggest finding another computer to test on, just to double-check the grid (though we test them all here repeatedly).

#73

I may be able to use someone’s computer but without Ableton/max. If I just install serialosc and try those terminal commands would that be enough?

#74

So I have no idea where I found these commands, but I thought I’d search through my command history to see if I could help out here. I’m seeing these:

/Library/Application\ Support/Monome/serialosc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/serialoscd --version

– which is clearly a version check

/Library/Application\ Support/Monome/serialosc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/serialoscd

– which seems to run the daemon

And:

launchctl list | grep serial

– which is just validating that it’s added as a start up item, I believe. (Did I get this for free with the daemon command? I don’t know, but I suspect yes because I don’t see anything else indicating adding it.)

Thought I’d throw this in since I didn’t see something precisely like this mentioned yet.

Edit: I should add that I have a grid and it works fine for me. I’m on Mojave as well.

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#75

Woah @robbbiecloset!! Look :open_mouth:

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I think we got it :smiley:

Thank you so so much

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#76

So - starting to get my feet wet with my grid.

I’ve been searching the threads and haven’t found a great answer on best way to sync applications with ableton live tempo.

For example, using the application Flin or Mlrv, is there any way i can sync with ableton (Without using a max for live application?).

#77

Maybe using rewire? I’m just diving into MLRv2 so someone more experienced may have a better answer.

Here’s a tutorial on MLRv2

#78

Rewire worked. Didn’t see that in the settings initially. Awesome.

Anyone know of any options for applications that don’t have rewire, like flin?

#79

can you confirm that serialoscd actually launches properly on reboot? or do you have to manually run it? (this is a confusing fix)

#80

Hey! So since I threw in those terminal commands that @robbbiecloset sent over, it has been working flawlessly. I haven’t physically turned my computer off yet (that I remember), so I’ll try tonight and let you know.

#81

I’m on High Sierra and had these exact issues and the only thing that seemed to work after many reinstalls and resets was @robbiecloset commands. Don’t really understand why. Thanks a lot BTW!

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#82

Warning: Potentially dumb questions ahead!

Longtime Ableton producer here who is interested in the monome world, but is having a difficult time figuring out the basics. I see a lot of videos on youtube showing overhead shots of a monome and people pressing buttons, but have yet to come across any videos showing the computer side of things, i.e. MLR or the applications being utilized. I fully understand that the monome is just a box of lights that can be used in tandem with open source software, but why can’t I find any videos or written tutorials of said software, i.e. MLR? I assume that MLR is a standalone piece of software that I can install on my computer in which I can drop samples to manipulate with Monome…yet I am having trouble finding info or tutorials on this.

Further, I see Norns is a popular piece of hardware that seems to maybe run MLR itself and eliminate the need for a computer application? Is this correct or am I off base here? Can Norns effectively eliminate the laptop + software from the equation?

Also - is there a simple and elegant way to utilize this kind of sample manipulation with simply Ableton and a Push? I never dove deep into Push’s capabilities (nor any Max For Live patches), and so far I use it only for basic step sequencing and as a midi controller.

Lastly - can Push be used with Norns instead of Monome?