#38

I’m over in Cumbria but it seems like HB has a thriving scene (I used to live in Todmorden a long time ago) - a load of musicians and writers I follow and am a fan of live over that way (Colin Robinson - Jumble Hole Clough, Spaceship Mark (my namesake), Ben Myers , Amy Liptrot - last two writers)

Is there much live stuff going on? I did wonder if it would be a suitable location for my first forays into playing live (I’m thinking of setting myself the target of playing out live in 2019)

#39

Could you tell me more about grid and ansible please? Am I to understand you’d go from Grid > Ansible > A Voice > Maths (to modulate)?

#40

Cork now :slight_smile: I have no monome gear these days unfortunately. Some day I will again I guess…

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#41

Grid and Andible is 3 unique sequencers (kria meadow and earthsea) and midi to cv. You load these apps via ansible module. Inspiring…

#42

Current Ansible firmware has two different ‘sequencers’: Kria and Meadowphysics.

Kria is probably the more traditional of the two - it, at first sight, is a four channel, 16 step sequencer. There are four gate outputs and four v/o quantised outputs on Ansible, one pair for each channel. There is a universal scale that is used across all four channels. But if you aren’t using all four channels, you can use the spare v/o CV outputs as an additional modulation sources. Or the gates to provide accents.

Where Kria really comes into its own, for me, is polyrhythms. Each channel can be set to different lengths and clock divisions. And you can also, if I remember right, have separate loops points for the CV and the gate parts. (I think this is turned off by default).

(Earthsea is also available, currently on a non-official firmware branch I believe).

#43

Ah ha ok gotcha thank you. Sooooo effectively grid + Norns is both the sequencer application and synth / sampler?

#44

So thinking out loud would I be wasting my energy in an octatrack and put that into Norns (for the ethereal sonic glue ) currently that’s done by pads on Korg prologue. And instead of say a 0-coast I could use grid into ansible into a small voice unit for top sounds leads mangrove just friends and make noise maths and if I wanted analogue voice I add make noise sto. Just thinking out loud

#46

If you were comparing Norns and an Octatrack there’s a whole lot of apples and oranges issues. I’ve owned both, and currently loving the Norns; but like all monome gear, you get the best out of it if you’re also interested in diving in to how it works. It’s also in development and so expect a few rough edges to have to sort out. If you happen to be interested in programming and Linux systems as well as curious musical devices then the Norns is an amazing sweet spot.

The Octatrack also has a steep learning curve but probably can do more out of the box, especially if you’re already familiar with Elektron’s way of working.

Both can be used and shaped in many different ways if you put in the work so there’s not a clear comparison to make.

#47

No not comparing just understanding you know, thanks man. For the sake of achieving my planned output of releases i’ll Go with my octatrack plan (been studying it for a year so happy to keep that in my plan) and thus I can use the Norns as is and learn coding etc in slow time

#48

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Future Meet up point here in Hackney?

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#49

Not in Hebden, but there is Hibernate records in Halifax, Fuse art space in Bradford, Cafe Ollo and the music Uni in Huddersfield that have good experimental music presence. I think Monome Brian played there a few months ago…

#51

Lower Clapton it’s the downstairs of my local bar

#61

Exploring Norns here in Stamford Hill.

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#62

Nice I’ll just wave now as I pass through to Tottenham :muscle:

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#63

Hey Everyone their seems to be a few of in here now so would a meet n greet be in order in the beginning of Nov before Xmas madness starts? The place would be the mermaid here in East London as per the pic I shared. Thought the initial meet can be an intro and general vibe out and going forward we can discuss Norns / rigs/ creativity ?

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#64

Sounds good to me - I’d be up for that.

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#65

I’ll look into a date and I know i’ll Not be able to work to everyone’s plans so i’ll Set one soon if that’s cool and hopefully you can make it and if not their is always next time

#66

I’m in NE London. No Norns but have Teletype + ansible. Super busy at the moment but would love to join if I can.

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#67

No worries Ghost, I’ll look at a good date and talk to the pub to make sure it’s cool and will send date out on here

#68

I will wanna pick ya ears about the ansible