shnthsalslied

WilliamHazard · 2022-10-26T20:27:02.451Z

shnthsalslied

a fork of sckicksalslied for use with shbobo shnth

shnthsalslied_screen
note: requires schicksalslied as well as the shnth library for norns; the latter can be found here

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.”
-Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

Requirements

norns or norns shield with schicksalslied and shnth library installed
keyboard or grid (or both!)
shbobo shnth

Encouraged

keyboard AND grid
crow
just friends
w/
16n
midi fighter twister (or similar, for mapping params)

Documentation

shnthsalslied works in essentially the same way as schicksalslied (for which documentation is available here), with one notable exception: rather than being sequenced according to the entered lines of text, 3 of the LiedMotor engine’s voices (trisin, karplu, and resonz) are allocated to the shbobo shnth (bars, major buttons, and minor buttons, respectively). The frequencies at which these voices will play is determined by the entered lines of text.

The first four characters entered will determine the frequencies triggered by the four bars. The next four characters will determine the frequencies triggered by the major buttons. And the next four will determine the frequencies triggered by the minor buttons. If there are 8 characters or fewer in the line, the minor buttons won’t do anything. If there are 4 characters or fewer, the major buttons won’t do anything either. And if there are fewer than 4 characters, only as many bars as there are characters will trigger notes.

For example, the word “the” will only imbue three bars with notes. The bars populate from left to right (as do the major and minor buttons), so in this example, the rightmost bar wouldn’t do anything. And the word “a” would only imbue the leftmost bar with a note.

A Note on the Bars

Shnth’s bars trigger LiedMotor’s trisin voice. This is an FM voice. The depth of the bar press determines the voice’s FM index. Consequently, unlike in schicksalslied, this parameter cannot be edited in params. Instead, the parameter is performed on each bar press.

Download

from maiden type
;install https://github.com/williamthazard/shnthsalslied

v1.0.0 - github link

swhic · 2022-10-31T13:06:34.054Z

Hey, any thoughts on adding the option to store param changes as part of every poetry line on grid? As in Silos

WilliamHazard · 2022-10-31T18:39:43.347Z

I’d not thought about that! Interesting idea. For now, choukanzu could provide some functionality a little like this.

KHAGE · 2024-07-01T11:25:52.118Z

WilliamHazard:

shnthsalslied

I can’t launch this script… get stuck with the “please restart norns” message each time I try to launch it.

Both schicksalslied and shnth library are already installed.

I’ve tried to remove and re-install shnthsalslied, but it didn’t help.

WilliamHazard · 2024-07-01T15:25:26.916Z

oh my. Thanks for letting me know! I’m away from home and from my shnth at the moment but will take a look at this when I get back and see if I can reproduce this issue. I haven’t touched this script in a couple years, so it’s possible that an update somewhere else broke something during that time.

EDIT: @KHAGE I hadn’t looked at this script in a long time and just pulled it back up, and I’m not getting the error you’re describing. I think it could have something to do with the tritri synth voice in the LiedMotor engine, but I’m not sure. On my end, the script starts just fine, but I can’t seem to get shnth bar presses to elicit sound, and I’m not sure why that is. Any luck on your end?