Norns: help

tehn · 2019-08-01T14:19:31.253Z

that dongle should work just fine.

also, you may be able to just push the plastic part back on. have you tested it?

Olivier · 2019-08-01T14:21:17.445Z

Thanks for the quick reply! And yeah, it was working here at the library for a couple of minutes, but then the light went out and I noticed the crack. Tried finagling a bit, but no dice.

mmml · 2019-08-03T00:13:38.005Z

Curious if these questions about recommended best charging practices with the norns battery were ever addressed? I’m very interested to know as well.

zebra · 2019-08-03T00:25:06.978Z

There’s a pretty nice charge controller, so I wouldn’t worry. But I’ll look at the data sheet for it later.

tehn · 2019-08-03T02:01:57.624Z

it’s a standard lipo battery, so general practice applies. myself, I just leave it mostly plugged in rather than doing charge discharge cycles

also replacement batteries are easily available

and the new update warns you when the battery is low

Leverkusen · 2019-08-03T13:39:20.953Z

I was just trying out a small setup I planned to take with me when I am away from home for the next 3 weeks and connected the OP-Z to Norns via USB to get them synced and audio. Unfortunately I get a pretty unpleasant and loud noise from the audio output then. No other devices are involved (except a small speaker):

OP-Z => Norns -> Speaker -> noise

It goes away when I disconnect the USB cable. I would be really happy if there was a way to get this sorted as I hoped I would be able to use them together with an iPad mini as a small portable setup and mix the Norns and the OP-Z audio within the Norns mixer.

its_your_bedtime · 2019-08-03T13:50:17.524Z

You can turn off charging via usb on op-z to reduce that noise (not completely tho).

LLK · 2019-08-03T13:51:24.985Z

Yeah otherwise you’re stuck with this option https://www.amazon.com/Audio-iDefender3-0-Ground-Loop-Eliminator/dp/B01N3XKOLG I seem to remember I saw people mentionned it worked.

Leverkusen · 2019-08-03T14:37:30.555Z

Ah, thanks! It’s screen+the right most e key on the op-z. Unfortunately you are right and it makes the noise only less obvious. It’ll work for now while trying out this set up. On the long run though I might have tor get such a USB dongle.

I wonder if there is also a way to cut USB power on Norns - maybe physically on just one port? Or by soldering in a switch somewhere?

I have not fully figured out how the sync feature of MLR works but it is quite some fun combined with the op-z by now.

dmon · 2019-08-05T06:09:36.373Z

Has anyone tried (and maybe even succeeded) connecting norns to the eduroam network? I’m not even sure if the network would allow me to ssh/use maiden with a hypotherically connected norns.

scazan · 2019-08-05T09:34:20.662Z

Hello!

Was curious if, when using SuperCollider, whether JACK was in use and whether it is possible to record multi-channel tape recordings. For instance, if I send all my outputs to a separate channel and also bus them all to the main outputs ([0,1]) as well.

sensum_clunch · 2019-08-05T13:09:37.000Z

Just got Norns, started the first study, made a file and realised that it was in the folder of an existing object which is untidy, went to delete it and somehow I had selected the code folder rather than the two line file that I was trying to delete. Not the best start, I’ve binned the entire code folder, oops.

Just ran an update hoping that that might re-up the folder but nope, still empty.

So, is there a default code folder I can grab anywhere or should I just make a new folder and re-populate it?

In fact, even a list of stuff that was in there would be useful, I can grab the projects off Git I think.

tehn · 2019-08-05T13:38:17.897Z

yes you can create a new code folder and repopulate. will put together a list of the defaults, but there shouldn’t be many dependencies. be sure to get the “we” project

sensum_clunch · 2019-08-05T13:45:04.977Z

Thanks for getting back so fast!

I’ve remade code inside dust and am grabbing stuff of Git, it seems to be really smooth throwing stuff on there.

I’ll grab we, I don’t think I had that one.

By the way, this thing is lovely and I can’t wait to get it going. Thanks for all the work you have put, and are putting, into it!

okyeron · 2019-08-05T17:31:23.482Z

There’s a fair bit of Jack routing discussion here if you wanna take a look
Norns: development

(But not sure if that answers your question)

scazan · 2019-08-05T17:54:27.619Z

oh great, thank you!

zebra · 2019-08-05T18:15:18.386Z

Hey scott!

Yeah, norns uses jack

By default, the norns interface class ( Crone ) boots it’s own server:

github.com

monome/norns/blob/master/sc/core/Crone.sc#L68




	*startBoot {
		if(useRemoteServer, {
			Server.default = Server.remote(\crone, NetAddr("127.0.0.1", serverPort));
			server = Server.default;
			server.doWhenBooted {
				Crone.finishBoot;
			};
		}, {
			Server.scsynth;
			server = Server.local;
			// doesn't work on supernova - "invallid argument" - too big?
			// server.options.memSize = 2**16;
			server.latency = 0.05;
			server.waitForBoot {
				Crone.finishBoot;
			};
		});
	}


	*finishBoot {

So I guess that’s where you would add more server I/o channels?

And then you would have to manage jack connections yourself. And I guess manage whatever jack client recorder process

But tbh, it’s hard for me to see the benefit of this; since norns only has 2 physical outputs, it seems best to just do multichannel capture and mix down within SC
?

ericmoderbacher · 2019-08-06T03:31:15.694Z

The documentation i found at: http://norns.local/doc/modules/arc.html (190801)and https://monome.org/docs/norns/script-reference/ both only list .enc as the event handler function.

a.enc doesnt seem to work where as a.delta does which i only found by going to another community made script.

Is there a better place to find documentation?

scazan · 2019-08-06T04:36:38.782Z

Hi Ezra!

Nice to see you online!
Yeah, I was mostly looking to just record stems during live performance. It didn’t occur to me to use s.record to do that on a Norns. That would be much simpler of course!

Thanks! (still working to obtain one but the Norns is kind of an ideal device )

zebra · 2019-08-06T05:52:28.908Z

ericmoderbacher:

Is there a better place to find documentation?

Nope, those are the docs and sorry if they are stale!

It is an ideal opportunity for a PR