#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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#318

There’s some on and off work happening on Link, but it may be a little while.

Poke around the GitHub issues and you should find some references.

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#319

I am wondering if there is a way or plans in the works to be able to send audio back and forth over the USB. That way I could use norns as an audio interface/ sound processor and instrument with ableton or other DAW

#320

Good point. USB audio+midi would solve my issues as well. I wouldn’t need Ableton Link implementation if that were the case.

#321

ableton link will be supported eventually. there is some proof of concept stuff running, it’s not hard.

using norns as an audio interface is not possible.

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#322

Do you know why? Is it a software or hardware limitation?

#323

hardware…

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#324

wonder if there’s ever been thoughts of a deep sci-fi future where scripts can switch out parts of crone with alternate versions in a similar sense to engines :thinking:

@steve_atx wonder if this someday might solve the need you have

essentially, norns scripts being ported into max for live devices, which can more readily interface with ableton stuff

#325

For some more detail here you could do some searching on trying to use Raspberry Pi in this fashion. I think one major issue is that norns or the Pi are USB hosts and would not be recognizable as a USB device. Also then there’d need to be a bunch of linux-y magic things to make a device show up to another computer as a USB sound-card.

#326

i think it just can’t work. even if you could swap the mode of host ports with OTG, they are behind a hub which cannot be thus swapped. the norns device port is connected to a subprocessor / UART and is a tty device full stop.

plus, yes, the nightmare of convincing a linux computer that it is a USB device (somehow) and forwarding the I/O from the real audio device (somehow)

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#327

Unsure if this is possible but, for engines such as Ack that feature the same parameters for multiple voices, i would like in the param menu to press key 2 and jump to that parameter in the next voice. I don’t know how much ‘extra’ can be scripted for the params menu, but it would be a great ‘nice to have’.
I can imagine it would speed up the flow quite significantly, say if you’ve added in a sample at slot 0 and then are able to jump directly to the same parameter on the next.

#328

on the future list for the param menu is sub-grouping. it should allow some UI for what you’re describing.

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#329

This might be a bit of a simple request in light of what norns is capable of. But I’d love a script that allows quick access to a filter, as well as midi control over the reverb and compressor that are available in system>audio. I know that their used to be a script called Bob that was simply a filter. Anyone feel like doing this (I would consider paying within reason) or pointing me to how I’d go about it? I’ve tried editing other scripts in the past to fulfill a need (without success), and my ineptitude there makes this seem daunting.

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#330

Does anybody have any ideas on how to connect Norns via WIFI to an iphone? Im looking for a super small setup for my long train ride.