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no friends

Seeded cut-up looper for monome norns. You play along with yourself.

2–5 slots ("buffers") play back in an order chosen by a seed. Slot count, slot lengths and order stay fixed until you reroll. Recording overwrites whichever slot is playing. The keep (mix) control sets how much of the old take survives.

controls

A new order starts at the next slot boundary.

params

• seed / slots / order length / reverse prob: what the seed generates. slots = seed lets the seed pick 2–5. Reverse prob makes the seed mark some steps to play backwards.
• size mode: seconds or beats. In beats mode, lengths are whole beats of the norns clock (1/2–8) and follow tempo changes.
• seed len min/max: range for seeded lengths in seconds (default 1–10 s).
• intervals / pitch / glide: the interval set E2 steps through, plus optional rate glide.
• rec level / input to rec / play level / crossfade
• play, clear all slots, all notes off (stops playback and recording)

notes

• Recording while pitched is tape-style. A take recorded at +12 sounds right at +12 and plays an octave lower at 0. It stays in key because pitch steps are locked intervals.
• Each slot owns a fixed 12 s region of the buffer (max length 11.5 s), so changing size or rerolling never moves recorded audio.
• Saving a pset also saves the audio next to it as <pset>.wav. Loading the pset restores the audio.

test

lua test/harness_nf.lua nofriends.lua 300