#286

I had mentioned (in the other thread I think?) that my Wifi nub only seems to work in the USB port closest to the audio jacks. It turns out the same is true for a USB drive. Grid seems to work in any of the USB ports.

@tehn any ideas? I’m going to run the latest firmware update now, if it fixes it I’ll report back.

#287

latest firmware shouldn’t change anything. this is a confusing issue— i’ll have to look at the driver for the internal usb hub.

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#288

Ok, thanks. Feel free to DM me if you want me to check anything or test anything.

#289

This morning everything was magically ok. This probably speaks to why a couple others couldn’t recall ‘exactly’ what they had done to fix this.
I pulled my power cable last night, hoping that maybe that might aid to a more complete power down cycle or reboot… IDK honestly but signal is good now. FWIW when the signal went distorted was after me leaving the unit on for probably around 24 hours just playing awake, I had got called away from my home studio and hadn’t gone back and upon return it sounded like that. The sound persisted in all apps though.
Thanks for the help and another amazing device.

#290

can i use usb a-a cable if i’d like to send midi cc from laptop or other controller to norns?

#291

a midi controller you can connect, since its a usb device. (or at least should be, though it should normally have usb b, or one of the mini usb … not usb a)

you cannot connect a laptop . since both the norns and laptop are usb hosts.

on the Organelle (similar issue, its a usb host) we found a really cool (and cheap) dongle, usb host to host converter, which works brilliantly
http://compasflamenco.com/midi-c-3/midi-usbusb-p-4.html

apart from that you could go to your computer via midi din (with converters), and I think iConnect also allow more than one usb host. (but not sure, as I dont have one!)

there are some midi over wifi solutions too, but they are a bit of a pain to setup, this is where OSC comes into its own.

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#292

thanks for the link. been scratching my head today how I’m going to sync mlr to my pc. tried the usb a to a and also going via an old midi keyboard neither worked. I don’t currently have a midi interface for my computer. I was wondering what solutions others were using.

#293

Can confirm using iConnectMidi4+ works (and I’ll assume the other versions like Mio and Midi2 should also work).

I’ve also used an older version of this UM-1 midi>usb adapter and it worked great.

https://www.amazon.com/Roland-UM-ONE-Midi-Interface/dp/B004KCLXBE

I’ve only tried sending clock FROM playfair however and have plans to sync to a standalone elektron box later tonight if I can get home early enough. Happy to report back.

#294

…if people purchase the Roland UM-ONE I highly recommend making sure that it is the “mkII” version which can operate as a standard USB Device Class MIDI interface which makes it compatible with ansible and earthsea as well.

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#295

yeah i have some small midi box somewhere in my desk
we’ll see if any combo of cables and ports work well for my idea

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#296

I received my norns yesterday. It is a thing of great beauty. Thanks all.

Just a question: does anyone else find the rotary knobs a bit oversensitive when navigating the menus? I find I repeatedly overshoot the item I’m aiming for, and it takes a few tries to zero in on it.

I’m asking because, before I try tweaking the code, I wanted to rule out that this might be a hardware issue on my side.

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#297

I have definitely had this thought :slight_smile:

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#298

this issue is dated may 25 and i’ll make sure to get it in the next update! https://github.com/monome/norns/issues/376

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#300

Having an issue with my Qunexus, notes get stuck in Earthsea and I’m able to only play one or two before it stops responding.

#301

Is there a way to set/fix the date/time on Norns? I have noticed that while recording to tape the date and time is off in the naming of the files.

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#302

Unfortunately there isn’t a complete solution to this. The short version is to turn on WiFi first…

The norns hardware does not have an internal clock like a standard computer does so as soon as it is powered off its sense of time stops and it has no way of knowing how long it has been powered off for. Power it back on and the clock picks up where it last was.

One of the side effects of connecting the device via WiFi to your router is that it will attempt to sync its internal clock with time sources out on the internet. Annoyingly it turns out that supercollider freaks out when it sees the time change drastically and that is why you may have seen reports of norns locking up when the WiFi is turned on. There is ongoing work to try and address the issue (the details are in github issues).

https://github.com/monome/norns/issues/399

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#303

This is a question that came to my mind tonight: If I wanted to do some wavefolding on a sine wave, I would probably need to choose an engine that supports it, right? It’s not something I can do with lua, if I understand correctly. What would I choose? Is there a list of engines?
Thanks, and sorry if the question might be stupid :slight_smile:

#304

You are right in that you can’t do that sort of thing in lua. It has to be done in Supercollider. You’d most likely have to add an engine or edit an existing one. Honestly, I’d go with the first option, as it’s a very good project to learn the basics. You mainly have to plug two UGens into one another: SinOsc.ar and Fold.ar.

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#305

I had the same question when I started. From my understanding it’s 2 separate bits of code - one is Lua (viewed and edited in Maiden - it can’t view / edit SC code), one is Supercollider were synths / engines and sounds are defined. Supercollider UGens need to be edited slightly to creat an engine that your Lua script looks at.
Here are the raw ugens code from Supercollider http://doc.sccode.org/Browse.html#UGens
Current defined engines on norms is here : https://github.com/monome/dust/tree/master/lib/sc
Here are people’s Lua scripts that look at the engines : https://github.com/monome/dust/tree/master/scripts

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#306

Got norns two days ago and already enjoy it a lot. Navigating this thing is much easier than I expected it to be.
I was wondering if there is some more info on the wonderful glut script by @artfwo posted elsewhere, sample loading and the parameters is totally clear to me but I am a bit confused about the grid operations… It sounds so good though. <3 Something along the lines of the mlr sheet would be really nice.

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