#381

I’ve been doing a lot of Norns/Monome related things this month and my partner and I record these little monthly devlogs, and I would like to share with you the “behind the scene” of all these little monome and norns experiments.

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#382

great! thanks for sharing :grinning:

#383

Anyone thought of working on a script that is a playable granular synthesizer. Imagine using an arc interface like Mangle to set the parameters and then using either a midi keyboard or grid to play the notes

Started thinking about this when thinking about how fun a gr-1 would be but thought to myself that Norns can in someway fill that void

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#384

Sounds pretty doable. It could probably be added to mangl to control the pitch parameter.

#385

That does sound fun, and like @Jonny says, the params are there :slight_smile:

Edit: just poked around at this, and it seems like it will be pretty easy.

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#386

Would there be any way to also allow it to record and play back live audio input?

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#387

You can already record and save samples with TAPE (or Sam, if you want to edit start/end points), then load into mangl. It would be possible to do it “in app” but UI is always a… thing.

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#388

I meant real time granular synthesis. I wouldn’t mind if the signal became slightly delayed when dialing in a larger spread of particles before/after the record/play “head”. I would love to play a single note from a synth and tweak certain other parameters of the synth besides the oscillator frequency (like wave shape, lfo, filter frequency, resonance) while a midi sequencer or human plays the grain pitch via a midi controller connected to norns, live. It could get pretty strange and fun, especially with other sound sources besides a synth.

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#389

I think that might require a new engine. I really hope there is an engine making study one day :sweat_smile:

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#390

Maybe this would help. I was just reading page 49/50, haven’t read the whole article, but this individual’s work seems interesting… and related to the subject. They were even prototyping with Supercollider. Never heard of the Creatovox before this.

#391

adding a RecordBuf to Glut would be a good first study in supercollider. i’d just start by opening Engine_Glut in the supercollider IDE and looking at the helpfiles, which are helpful.

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#392

googling RecordBuf and installing supercollider :crossed_fingers::sweat_smile::crossed_fingers:

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#393

Is there any way to connect Bluetooth devices? In/out

#394

Not as yet.

I did some experiments with a wiimote, but there would need to be some changes in the norns guts to get a BT device “working”

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#395

I have no idea if this is possible because I know nothing about programming, supercollider, PD, etc…but, is it possible to port these M4L written by Stretta devices for Arc over to norns? it seems like they would work well.

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#396

As a non-programmer, I’m not sure how feasible/musical useful this would be, but I have an idea for something like a phrase looper/sampler for randomized pitch info instead of audio. There’s much I don’t understand, so please bear with me if this doesn’t make sense:

  1. Random quantized (or not :slight_smile: ) pitch information feeds into a 16 or 32 step buffer (i.e. one or two Grid rows)- each new note would be stored under a Grid button until it’s replaced 16 or 32 steps later.
  2. While the note information is continuously updated, one could then select a loop from the current steps like the second page of MLR.
  3. The phrase could then be stored in a save slot, which could then be played back from a Grid button. Re-randomized/backwards playback would probably be cool.
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#397

Kind of like a midi Turing machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le26BIqB8Y8

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#398

Yep, pretty much that with Grid control, pattern saves, and internal quantization.

#399

i’ve been thinking about what hacking would need to be done to use an external trackpad as a controller for norns like @andrew’s m4l device Spondee https://github.com/AndrewShike/spondee - i have a rarely used magic trackpad that would make a wonderfully sized control option.

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#400

A wired usb trackpad would work - it’d just need a little library or something to translate HID to whatever params you want to control

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