Norand Mono (Analog Bass Synth with Sequencer)

Had no time unfortunately.
I’ll try at weekend, I don’t want to rush this.

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Yeah, same here

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Can’t wait to do the update! Such an amazing machine already.

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been jamming on the mono on 2.0 for quite some hours and haven’t encountered any bugs. seems pretty stable

this synth is so much fun, i wish there was a bit more discussion about it, anyone has any tips and tricks with this thing?

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I’m a big fan. I did the 2.0 update. I don’t know if it’s a bug or if I’m doing something wrong but when I try to copy patterns so I can try morph, the patterns don’t seem to copy.

I can copy one step to another so I know the key combo works. I’m sure it’s something I’m missing.

I hope there’s a comprehensive video for 2.0 made. There’s a lot of new stuff and it was already really deep in all that in can so for such a small machine.

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We need a monomachine tips & tricks-like doc for that with the nutty flexibility of the Mono.

I need some more 1:1 time with the new OS to get my head around it!

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Yeah, I was pretty comfortable with the previous FW at one point, but I must be quite rusty now, and all these new features… It’s going to take a while to get comfortable again!

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There are so many tricks to achieve with this machine!
When I got uninspired sometimes, I would simply go over the documentation again to find ways to use it that I hadn’t tried yet :slight_smile:

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Live record mode doesn’t seem to work for me now. When I enter it (Pattern + Run + Record) and then mess around and try to exit it, it doesn’t revert back. Anyone else have this problem? I’m on 2.0.

EDIT:

After loading 2.0 from SysExLibrarian, the Mono started loading 2.0, then after a few times through lighting up all 16 sequencer keys, it got stuck at step 3 on the sequencer, with the light flashing on step 3.

Someone on the Mono board mentioned a “F#G#A#” key combo to fix it but hitting those 3 keys does nothing for me.

What am I doing wrong?

It was me on that forum. You have to hit those 3 keys AND the follow button next to the cutoff knob! Try that and see if it works for you.

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Thanks. Do I do that when it’s stuck or at some other point?

I did it when it was in bootloader mode I think? I can’t remember even though it was last night :man_facepalming:t2:

hello
apparently everything is going well with the installation of V2, the sound is good when I play on the keyboard, but impossible to launch a pattern (factory or memory) no backup either.
someone had the same problem?

Do you have the clock setting correctly set? I’ve made that mistake a few times till I changed it to internal.

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20 years with hardware… and I’m still so stupid !
THANKS !! :smiley:

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on the other hand I have a problem, before it seems to me that with the external clock I could still use RUN (and if I understand the V2 manual correctly, it’s still like that) but now the RUN only works with the internal clock.
I may be going to directly ask the question at Norand

MIDI clock setting has changed over to the C button (originally i think it was B)

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Yes, @Unilino if they haven’t updated the manual to change that a reminder would probably be useful :slight_smile:

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One of my standard techniques is to use both Page Randomizer and unlimited Undo/Redo. The page randomizer does not randomize the whole page. What it does is add a few trigs (with some randomized accents/slides) to the ones already laid down (it will do nothing if all trigs are used), in the currently selected scale, and to my ears, using an algorithm so things sound more melodic and not too extreme. If what is added is not to your liking, you can edit individual trigs, but don’t do that; instead, just Undo and try again. If you do this, you will end up with a series of sequences, each one a good addition of a few notes to the previous one. Then you can use Undo/Redo to move up and down this series, while twisting knobs (which do not affect the sequencer, so won’t be undone/redone) to alter the sound. This can stretch things out quite a long time compared to a single static sequence. When you get tired of it, Undo back to a good base, and then hit Page Randomize again (wiping out the series after it, but not before, by starting a new edit) and build up a new series. Before you know it, an hour has gone by.

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