/279 - Success!

Emi and I had a good day today. Hung around, played games, read books, and took a hike. I brought my camera and binoculars and that was heavy and I didn’t see any birds. Still, it was fun.

Axoloti: As it turns out, my modification to the encoder object was correct — I just capitalized something I shouldn’t have. Once that was fixed everything works as intended! Feels great to be able to work my way through a problem like that when I’m so out of my depth. Now I just have to patch it all up (Image shows the layout for 1 encoder out of 4 total) and hope it all works. ( I really shouldn’t jinx myself like this)

/278 - Tidbits

L: I was able to spend some time working on the Axo patch, but kept running into issues in my strategy. Accessing parameter pages is central to this patch and every time I switched it would make the last parameter jump in value. That’s no good. I came upon a solution which is solid, except for the fact that it requires modifying object code and I’m not a coder. I was able to make a little headway on my own, but am going to need some support. Hoping the axo forum folks feel inclined to chime in.

R: New portable speakers arrived today and they are much better than the last pair I had to send back. Those ones (Anker Soundcore 2) had unusable latency, even when using a wired connection instead of bluetooth. Unacceptable. So far these are pretty good but I need to spend some time with them to really know how they respond to different types of signals. It’s already apparent that I will need to add a para eq or high-pass filter to the axo patch take out some of the deep lows. These speakers sound much bigger than they are, but they definitely can’t handle too much bass.

/078 - The Grid

I just realized that I got my grid one year ago today. It’s something that I dreamt about for a very long time, but I never thought I would actually ever have. When I discovered monome all those years ago, this little box of buttons was an incredible mystery and the sounds and ideas pouring from the community was absolutely bewildering. (It still is.) On top of that, since I’m not a coder I always assumed that I would never be able to contribute, or to translate all the ideas I had that could be realized by the grid — but today, as a result of the norns studies I made it do something. Definitely a baby step, but what a feeling.

Today, coincidentally, I made a little step sequencer (from the study guide, thanks to monome for bringing us all up with them) and it worked — I made the grid go. I mashed a bunch of buttons and pressed play. It reminded me of Underworld - Rez, and I laughed.

So so cool.

/074 - Shadows

Busy night. Made dinner and played with Emi. Got her in bed and read a few books. Turned off the light and made shadow puppets. Experimented with adding functions to spacetime, which worked but didn’t end up producing any musical results. I’ll keep chipping away at it — this won’t become a blog about coding, promise. ;)

/067 - Code

Decided to finally try coding in lua for norns. The norns studies breaks it down in a way that’s (mostly) easy to digest, but as a non-coder there’s so much that goes over my head. It also doesn’t help that I’m a sloppy typer. Still — it worked! Going to try to keep slogging through to see if things start to click — it’s encouraging to read that others have had the same experience and ended up being able to build their own scripts. My previous attempts at learning to code haven’t gone far, but maybe this is the time?