Alright, v1.4.0 (3390d64) is here! Should be available in Maiden’s project manager when your norns is on WiFi, or if you want a direct download: ZIP File
This release brings two pedals based on the Mutable Instruments modules Rings and Clouds to Pedalboard (once you follow these instructions: https://llllllll.co/t/31781)! Huge thanks again to @okyeron and @geplanteobsoleszenz for their work on porting the these over to the norns and SuperCollider ecosystem.
Release Notes:
- New Pedal: Granular, based on Mutable Instruments Clouds
- Just about all of Clouds’s functionality is here: position, size, density, and texture controls. Freeze mode. Stereo spread and feedback controls. Recursive pitch shifting. Buffer quality settings
- We even have the “hidden” modes: “pure” pitch-shifting, looping, and spectral processing
- We did take out Clouds’s reverb – if you want reverb, just use the normal Reverb pedal
- New Pedal: Resonator, based on Mutable Instruments Rings
- All the standard Rings functionality is here: all six modes (modal, sympathetic strings, single string, FM, western chords, karplusverb), up-to-4-voice polyphony, resonant structure control, brightness, damping, and position controls
- It defaults to a “pitch follower” mode with customizable interval offset, as there’s no V/Oct input. You can also switch to a “free” mode, where you directly dial in the pitch of the resonator (or set it up via param mapping to follow MIDI input!)
- We also have the Rings easter egg “Disastrous Peace”. It’s a organ/string-machine synth, loosely based on the Roland RS-09. It’s a little strange to have in an effects chain, but… why not?
- Slapback mode for the delay pedal: exactly one copy of the delayed signal is heard, with no feedback tail
- “Alerts”
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Granular and Resonator require some prior setup work outside of the script to make them usable. Specifically, you have to follow the instructions here: https://llllllll.co/t/31781. The app still works if you don’t, but when you try to choose those pedals we show an alert explaining what you gotta do first. I personally recommend the “Installer script” approach (just put it in
~/dust/code and run it like any other script), as opposed to manually downloading the .tar and scp-ing it onto your norns
- Some of the pedals (Reverb and Resonator in particular) are rather CPU-intensive. If you choose enough CPU-intensive pedals at the same time, we now show a brief warning that you may hear dropped samples (and show you each pedal’s CPU cost so you can maybe make some different decisions)
- Small bug fixes:
- Don’t destroy & recreate pedals when moving them around the board (i.e., fix the clearing of the delay buffer when moving the delay pedal)
- Better handling of user input before the app is done launching
The UGens powering Granular and Resonator are still under development, so definitely let me/@okyeron know if you have any issues, preferably over in the the thread dedicated to their development
Some more sound samples!
Plain ol electric guitar -> Resonator in modal & static pitch mode -> Reverb:
Plain ol electric guitar -> Resonator in string & pitch-follower mode -> Wavefolder -> Granular:
