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Monome Norns: a Linux-powered open-source sound computer

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3 points by jpereira 5 years ago · 1 comment

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jpereiraOP 5 years ago

Monome is such a fascinating example of sustainable open source ecosystem around a hardware product.

Their entire software stack is open-source, and the community contributes an incredible amount. Just take a look at the release notes for the latest norns update [0].

The software itself is also just of a really high quality, especially the balance between accessibility and power. The norns runs lua scripts that interact with a bunch of specific APIs for making sounds, interacting with hardware, or drawing the UI. It's incredibly quick to get started, but folks have made some wild scripts[1]

[0]: https://llllllll.co/t/norns-update-201023-201029/37646

[1]: https://llllllll.co/t/arcologies-v1-2-5/35752

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