chrislo / thunk

A sequencer for norns

Thunk

Thunk is a parameter locking step sequencer for the monome norns.

Install

From maiden type

;install https://github.com/chrislo/thunk

Instructions

Thunk requires a grid. It is optimised for a 8x8 grid but should work on a 16x8. If you have midigrid installed it will use that.

• Toggle steps using the step edit buttons. Each track has up to 64 steps grouped in 4 pages. Select the page using the page buttons.
• Use track select to choose one of the 6 tracks
• shift + step edit to set the length of the track's pattern
• Hold step edit to set step parameters
• shift + track select to toggle track mutes

Menus

The script starts in the "global" menu. Use enc 2 to select a parameter and enc 3 to change its value.

Press track select to set parameters for a specific track.

Press and hold a step edit button to set parameters for a specific track.

Press k2 to go back from the track menu to the global menu.

Sample management

Thunk has space for 64 samples (stereo or mono). It comes preloaded with the norns default 808 kit. When in the track edit menu, press k3 on the sample name to load a sample into the slot. Samples can also be managed from the norns param menu (press k1 and turn e1 to access).

Roadmap

• MIDI tracks for sequencing external devices
• Synth tracks to complement the sampled sounds
• Patterns
• Step conditions (e.g. probability, 1:X, fills)
• Nicer menus