scholastic
Multitrack polyrhythmic sequencer for norns: bolero, trap beats, bouncing balls, rain…
Inspired by Modalics’ Beat Scholar, scholastic is a polyrhythmic sequencer that focuses on splitting a measure into beats, and splitting those beats into subdivisions.
Requirements
norns (required)
Recommended:
nb voices (e.g. oilcan, doubledecker), MIDI output device
Documentation
There is a timeline, with tracks in the vertical and time in the horizontal. Navigate, divide time, and add notes. Set their pitch and velocity. Play them back with the polyperc engine, nb voices, or an external MIDI device.
E1: Select track (Scroll to track 0 to change number of tracks with E3)
E2: Select position (Scroll to beat 0 to change number of beats with E3)
E3: change track/beat/velocity
K1 + E1: Transpose
Buttons:
K1 (hold): Shift
K2: Play/Stop
K3: Insert / remove a note
K1 + K3: Toggle velocity editor
See params menu for other things especially output destination.
acknowledgements
A general huge heap of praise and love for the community generally. From a novice, I’ve dug through your code for ideas, implementations and answers to life’s mysteries. My first release! Thanks all!
Extra shout to @sixolet for nb which made it easy to extend the sound palette of scholastic
install
You can find and install scholastic in the Maiden library
