#298

also might be too early but might kill some GAS

anybody wanna offer guidance on translating wingpinger or doubleknot style instruments into a digital environment like norns?

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#299

Maybe in the future if/when more/different engines are supported it might be relatively easy to implement this using something like sequencer64. It can already run from the command line.

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#300

i have been wanting to do something similar, but also capture the internal osc messages to record parameter changes etc (no clue if this is even directly possible or if all the parameter change commands would need to be caught prior to being sent?). anyway i think it’s a great idea, i would be happy to help out if there is any way to delegate the work in a way that makes sense (or if you just need a second pair of eyes)! otherwise will be looking out for the script!

long term i eventually want to be able to generate a list of events that made up a performance and then tweak the list afterwords. i have no clue if that will turn out to be a massive waste of time, though.

#301

my lua scripting journey just started two days ago, so it will probably take me quite a while to figure out how to do something like this. if you’re wanting to dive in, please don’t wait for me :slight_smile:

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#302

i am really not much farther down the journey than that. it can be frustrating but it is usually less frustrating than you think. good luck!

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#303

Just posted this in the library:

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#304

I’ve been working on something similar (midi recording, overdubbing, playback dir, muting, etc). The latest iteration includes some windowing controlled by arc. The approach I’m using is working for percussive playback only (ie the output is triggers, not gates). Ultimately I’d like to get this to where note length is also recorded for 4 voices, but that raises new questions with respect to the windowing concept and I haven’t fully (at all?) worked it out yet.

In any case; I had not coded in 20 years before lua/norns, and this is my first script. I’d wager it’s well within your reach.

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#305

I’ve actually started work on something like this for Teletype. It might take me a while… I’m awfully rusty after a few years away from TT.
It occurred to me today that Make Noise DPO + TT could make a fair approximation for a Benjolin. Likewise QPAS + TT for Wingpinger.

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#306

Hello, I was just wondering if it’d be possible to add a MIDI CC “pick-up” mode to norns. If so, would such a function require bi-directional MIDI communication? The issue I’m having is related to jumping to new parameter values when turning an encoder on my Midifighter Twister after loading a script preset on norns. It seems that a CC pick-up mode could help with this issue. I think it would also be beautiful to have the script parameters update in real-time on the Twister as I tweak the presets using Norns encoders, or to send out the current values to a connected supported controller upon recalling a preset.

I regretfully am not a software developer myself, yet. Is posting to this thread the current preferred method for submitting general Norns feature requests? Thanks!

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#307

Not that it’s moving the state of the art further making clones, but surely Norns could do the 4ms spherical wavetable navigator thing well.

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#308

Idea for the TAPE:

Since I am most likely not skilled enough to make my audio-file cropping tool based on @markeats timber engine, it would be great to have an automatic recording trigger in tape. So that you set a threshold that automatically triggers record when the audio is above your threshold. possible?

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#309

@static this feature (supporting cc’s that send delta instead of absolute values) is planned for the update to the parameter interface.

@noiserock this is not currently possible and would require a substantial change to crone, but remember that you can have your script control the entire tape system: https://github.com/monome/norns/blob/master/lua/core/audio.lua#L139 ie if you wanted to have a key on norns (or midi pedal or whatever) start/stop TAPE recordings to new files.

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#310

This changes a lot of things! This means with some simple changes I could probably just mod Timber to have a “record to tape” mode for cropping samples.

but, @tehn

--- open a tape recording file.
-- @param file
Audio.tape_record_open = function(file)
  _norns.tape_record_open(file)
end

The param here, does this expect an audio file, or is this just declaring the name of the audio file?

Thanks!

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#311

I’d love to see Ansible support for Norns and vice versa. I know Crow is coming, but it’d still be nice to make more use out of the gear that we already have.

What I’m imagining is that connecting Norns to Ansible would enter a simple mode that waits for trigger and note messages from Norns. On the Norns end, there would be a small set of Lua instructions like Ans.trigger(1, true).

Is this technically possible?

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#312

AFAIK no since they are both USB hosts

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#313

I’ve got the notion to make a diy USB midi host-to-host dingus for just this sort of thing.

Gonna whip up a prototype later next week.

(otherwise there’s that commercial Savilla Soft thing)

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#314

I use Norns / Ansible combo and use the Sevillasoft dongle. It works perfectly for 4 channels of CV/Gate. The Sevillasoft also works with the FH1. I use Fugu, Less Concepts, Loom and Orca scripts mostly.

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#315

Just an update for @myecholalia and @okyeron and anyone else looking to use the Manta with norns. I was unable to get the HID stuff working (but I’m sure it can be done). In order to get something happening, I compiled libmanta for norns and was able to get things up and running (with a few tweaks) using osc as @okyeron had suggested. Didn’t get too much done other than to make sure I could get continuous and velocity events from the keys and sliders. That works great. Next up is to get the manta hid->osc bridge to run when a manta is plugged in. Next time I have some spare cycles, I’ll see what I can do and hopefully write up a quick how to.

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#316

the latter. but it will not create directories in the path (fails silently ATM, sorry)

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#317

I am wondering about the possibility of implementing ableton sync on norns given its WiFi capabilities? Just thinking out loud and have no clue whether it’s technically possible or not, but it sure would be helpful to me and maybe others? So throwing it out there…

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