From Andrew Horton Sent Fri, Nov 16th 2018, 21:56
Norns is cool if you already know SC. Quite limited interface and very dependent on the grid or arc controllers, so you're up for a minimum $1500 investment. I barely talked myself out of going that route a few weeks ago. Organelle is really the dark horse here. They're stupid-cheap and people are doing amazing things with them like tricking them into running multiple apps simultaneously. On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:10 PM Mike Perkowitz <xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > > I got an original nord modular last year and loved it so much I hunted do= wn a G2 keyboard earlier this year. it's fantastic -- easy to use, sounds g= ood, incredible flexibility. unfortunately, the main board seems to be tota= lly dead and it's not clear it can be fixed at all. a new one would be arou= nd $2000; I'd probably do it if I weren't now worried that the same thing w= ill happen to the next one. any G2 users who can convince me this was a flu= ke? > > So, I'm thinking about other options. my ideal would be a piece of hardwa= re that I can program from a computer but disconnect and carry around, with= audio ins and outs (I care less about CV connections). I'm curious if anyo= ne has played with or compared things like the Organelle, Axoloti, Monome A= leph, Monome Norns, or anything else I'm not thinking of. > > I don't really want to take the heavyweight computer approach, but though= t about trying to put something together with SuperCollider, especially sin= ce if I like it I can buy a Norns to use it. but it seems possible to put t= ogether a dedicated machine to run it. any SC users? > > mike >