Using a Grid as Linnstrument

neauoire · July 7, 2019, 10:33am

I can try, but I don’t have one to test so it might a bit of a trial and error. You might be able to simply edit the list here to make it fit your device

Prnts · July 11, 2019, 10:41pm

This range of notes would cover 4 banks of 8x8 in an Ableton drum rack. If you set two buttons for moving up and down the octaves like you said it should work pretty nice

34%20PM 43%20PM 55%20PM 11%20PM

neauoire · July 11, 2019, 10:46pm

On it Give me a day or two.

Prnts · July 12, 2019, 12:43am

Niceeeeee thanks no rush at all. Extremely grateful. Will make my grid even more valuable when traveling

neauoire · July 12, 2019, 2:28am

I had some time this morning, give this a spin.
Let me know what you think!

Layout

G0#  A0   A0#  B0   E3   F3   F3#  G3   C6   C6#  D6   D6#  CY   CY#  DY   DY#   
E0   F0   F0#  G0   C3   C3#  D3   D3#  G5#  A5   A5#  B5   E8   F8   F8#  G8   
C0   C0#  D0   D0#  G2#  A2   A2#  B2   E5   F5   F5#  G5   C8   C8#  D8   D8# 
GZ#  AZ   AZ#  BZ   E2   F2   F2#  G2   C5   C5#  D5   D5#  G7#  A7   A7#  B7  
EZ   FZ   FZ#  GZ   C2   C2#  D2   D2#  G4#  A4   A4#  B4   E7   F7   F7#  G7  
CZ   CZ#  DZ   DZ#  G1#  A1   A1#  B1   E4   F4   F4#  G4   C7   C7#  D7   D7# 
GY#  AY   AY#  BY   E1   F1   F1#  G1   C4   C4#  D4   D4#  G6#  A6   A6#  B6  
EY   FY   FY#  GY   C1   C1#  D1   D1#  G3#  A3   A3#  B3   E6   F6   F6#  G6

So, 00 05 0A 0F would draw:

Prnts · July 12, 2019, 2:45am

getting an error in terminal when trying

sudo npm install

seems to be a permissions issue

gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users/prnts/Documents/rack/node_modules/midi/build'
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/prnts/Documents/rack/node_modules/midi
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! midi@0.9.5 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the midi@0.9.5 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/prnts/.npm/_logs/2019-07-12T02_44_16_516Z-debug.log```

neauoire · July 12, 2019, 2:56am

That’s weird, did you had this issue as well with the linnstrument?
Could you try sudo again?

Prnts · July 12, 2019, 3:27am

No problems with linnstrument all went smoothly when I did the npm install

neauoire · July 12, 2019, 3:28am

Does it work if you don’t use sudo?

Prnts · July 12, 2019, 3:31am

20 characters of no after just trying npm install

neauoire · July 12, 2019, 3:32am

I’m not sure why your computer won’t give you permissions to install this. Let’s see if someone else has that issue as I cannot reproduce it.

Prnts · July 12, 2019, 3:42am

I have a hunch that it may be an issue with the virtual modular program rack being installed. I’m going to try something.

**edit that wasn’t it. Tried on another machine which actually had a problem due to what I had mentioned above but it is still an issue on my main computer. So strange.

SOLVED
Apparently when I had installed linn I had made a mistake and installed to my home directory instead of the documents folder. So when I had just tried to to the rack install in the home folder it worked. Geez

neauoire · July 12, 2019, 4:22am

Happy to hear!
I’ve created a new thread dedicated to Rack.

kasselvania · August 2, 2019, 3:57pm

Hey, I have finally had a chance to try out the linnstrument on a non-vari brightness monome. Thing’s look great. I only see the C notes, but that’s absolutely fine. That basically gives enough of a footprint to be able to use it.

Sorry it took me so damn long to try it out. Lots of work and travel, followed by brief stints fooling with the norns.

camckoy · April 11, 2022, 6:28pm

Would this work on a 256? Would it only be the top or bottom half that would have the Linnstrument layout?

zebra · April 11, 2022, 6:46pm

it is hardcoded foer 128x64 elements, and will probably work with the upper half of your 256.

at a quick glance, seems that it would only require these mapping tables to be updated:

github.com

neauoire/linn/blob/master/index.js#L16-L25

      
        
            const notes = [
              'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#', 'E4', 'F4', 'F4#', 'G4', 'G4#',
              'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#',
              'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#',
              'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3',
              'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C3', 'C2#', 'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3',
              'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C2', 'C2#', 'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2',
              'B0', 'C1', 'C1#', 'D1', 'D1#', 'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C2', 'C2#', 'D2',
              'F0#', 'G0', 'G0#', 'A0', 'A0#', 'B0', 'C1', 'C1#', 'D1', 'D1#', 'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1'
            ]

or for lua version:

github.com

neauoire/linn/blob/master/linn.lua#L11

      
        
            --  
            --   ////\\\\
            --   ////\\\\  LINN
            --   ////\\\\  BY NEAUOIRE
            --   \\\\////
            --   \\\\////  LINN LAYOUT
            --   \\\\////
            --
            
            
local g
            local viewport = { width = 128, height = 64, frame = 0 }
            local focus = { x = 1, y = 1, brightness = 15 }
            local chan = 1
            local keys_down = 0
            local midi_signal_out
            local keys = { 'C','C#','D','D#','E','F','F#','G','G#','A','A#','B' }
            
            
local notes = {
              'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#', 'E4', 'F4', 'F4#', 'G4', 'G4#',
              'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#',
              'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#',

github.com

neauoire/linn/blob/master/linn.lua#L18-L27

      
        
            local notes = {
              'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#', 'E4', 'F4', 'F4#', 'G4', 'G4#',
              'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#', 'B3', 'C4', 'C4#', 'D4', 'D4#',
              'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3', 'F3#', 'G3', 'G3#', 'A3', 'A3#',
              'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3', 'C3#', 'D3', 'D3#', 'E3', 'F3',
              'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C3', 'C2#', 'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2', 'G2#', 'A2', 'A2#', 'B2', 'C3',
              'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C2', 'C2#', 'D2', 'D2#', 'E2', 'F2', 'F2#', 'G2',
              'B0', 'C1', 'C1#', 'D1', 'D1#', 'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1', 'A1#', 'B1', 'C2', 'C2#', 'D2',
              'F0#', 'G0', 'G0#', 'A0', 'A0#', 'B0', 'C1', 'C1#', 'D1', 'D1#', 'E1', 'F1', 'F1#', 'G1', 'G1#', 'A1',
            }

i didn’t spot anywhere else where row count was assummed but could have missed something.

the concept itself is pretty simple, just a list of notes that correspond to (x,y) locations, so might be simpler to apply it more directly in whatever environemnt (norns script, m4l patch etc)

camckoy · April 13, 2022, 1:50am

Thanks for this. I’ll give it a shot.

FLORINS · April 15, 2022, 5:02pm

@neauoire Would love to try this out! I’m getting lots of npm WARN old lockfile and npm ERR! when I do the npm install. I can post the specifics if you like. Any suggestions for the novice coder - Thanks!

neauoire · April 15, 2022, 7:00pm

It has been a long time since I’ve used NPM, but what happens if you simply delete the package-lock.json file?

tedpallas · May 23, 2022, 6:15am

has anyone gotten this to work on windows? i get this error, i wish i knew what to do to fix it:

MidiOutWinMM::openVirtualPort: cannot be implemented in Windows MM MIDI API!