Is it genuinely too late? I own a NDLR from the first batch, made in CHINA as they say nowadays. I'd love to make some Perlin Noise. Can someone from team NDLR let me know?

Another track with the NDLR doing Lead and Pad duties.

I did a live show at a record store on Record Store Day last month. I had three new songs for that event, and this is one of the new ones. Fortunately, it relies on the NDLR heavily, thus it gets shared here. It starts with about three minutes of pure drones, so if you can't wait for the NDLR action, you can skip ahead. This is another song in the style I've called "Controlled Chaos" in other videos. The deluge was in control of the NDLR, and the NDLR was in control of making all note data (other than the melody, drums, and pure drones), and makes controlling the whole show so easy.

Circling Berlin

MIDI chain:
deluge -> NDLR -> XL-1

Melody:
Hydrasynth

Pure drones:
Nord Modular

Production:
no post-production processing at all, what you hear is how it was live

Using 1.1.086 I cannot get either of these note ranges to work (Mode 2 - white and black KB ctrl)

page 59 - C#3 - D#4

page 32 - C#5 - D#6

Incoming notes (ch15) NDLR Cntl (ch15)

Hi guys,
I bought an MCRR a few days ago and I’m trying to set it up in my studio.
The first issue I’ve encountered is how to monitor what’s happening on an output port. I see that I can monitor incoming messages on the input port via the routing menu, but I have no way to tell if a filtered clock is actually being filtered on a specific output port.
The MIDI monitor section is too small to effectively check what’s going on, especially if you’re dealing with a large number of messages.
I’m also wondering if there’s a way to monitor this on a bigger screen, but so far I haven’t been able to figure it out. The only solution I found is to connect a MIDI cable from the output port to a computer and check the stream with software.
Any advice?

Dear developers. I would like to use an external midi pitch controller for each step of the pattern. This can be achieved by attaching an individual MIDI CC parameter to each of the 16 steps. For example: CC 91 controls the height of the first step, CC 92 controls the height of the second step, CC 93 controls the height of the third step, CC 94 controls the height of the fourth step, and so on.  By assigning an LFO from an external controller to any steps, you can get a more dynamic arrangement.

Hello,

When making some tests about the transpose issue, I came accross a weird but reproductible problem : modifier stop responding to input, it seems freezed.

There is a simple pattern, easily reproductible.

One source, tree ouputs. (or 4 outputs)

For the first ouput, set a modifiers, I had a T1 modifier.
Nothing need for ouput 2 and 3

When you look the MRCC output, output 1 is the left most, the other two came after to the right (this is important, order matters)

Now, just remove output 1 from the routing.
Try to set a modifiers in the output 2 (which was notmally auto selected), it works.
try the same from ouput 3, it won't work anymore.

=> you have to reselect the output 1 to re-enable the modifiers in ouput 3.

If you try this with 4 ouputs routing, the problem will occur on the 3d one again.

I made a video if needed.


Best

John

Hi.

I've been setting up a big Eurorack modular system (DAW-less) and realized I need a MIDI router/merge.  I have 3 keyboards outputting DIN MIDI and currently 3 MIDI-to-CV converters (Behringer CM1A, Model D, and B2600) and probably a 4th (2-XM) soon.  The MRCC 880 looks like it's by far the closest device to what I need without buying a very old Roland A-880 or JL Cooper MSB.  These have more ports but very limited merging.  The JMK Music Pedals Plexus:4 also looks very nice but only has 3 DIN inputs and outputs.  If it was 4 by 4 DIN, it would be a really difficult choice.   So, it looks like the MRCC 880 is it but I have a couple of questions/concerns:

Why does it have a USB-B jack?  I have at least a dozen USB-B to USB-A cables sitting around so that's not the issue.  But it's seems really strange they didn't go with USB-C on a modern device!  And the bigger MRCC - which is an older device - has a USB-C for power!  Makes no sense.

Also, it's not exactly cheap so what happens in a year if I want to expand my setup?  Again, the bigger MRCC is expandable but there's nothing about expanding the MRCC-880 - which is the one that you'd more like want to expand.

I thought of making my own with a Raspberry PI but I don't think I want to have a whole, big project just for a MIDI router.

Thoughts?

 David

Hey everyone! ?

I am using my NDLR with some external synths & I am loving the workflow so far. Super inspiring stuff! That said, I am running into a bit of a snag when it comes to keeping everything properly in sync—mainly tempo drift or slight timing weirdness after a while. ?

Also I have tried a few different setups  but I am still not quite getting the tight sync I am hoping for.

So I figured I would pop in here and ask: how are you all setting up your clocking when running the NDLR with other gear?? Any tips or tricks to keep things running smoothly without MIDI chaos?

I Appreciate your advice.

Thank you.

Hey there!

This might be a lack of knowledge on my part about configuring Ableton....

I have my AKAI MPD218 (USB MIDI Only) connected to a USB Hub which is connected to my Mac Mini.
My MRCC 880 is also connected to the same USB Hub.

Is it possible for me to play the pads (live) on the AKAI and then route them straight out to the MRCC 880 and onwards into another MIDI device via one of the DIN outputs on the MRCC 880?

If so, then I can't get this to work and I think it's an issue with my MIDI settings within Ableton Preferences.

Ideally, I'd like to route the AKAI straight into Ableton and straight out to MRCC 880 (Port 1), and do this by setting the 'Input' of 'Control Surface' MPD218 to 'MPD218 (Port A)' and the 'Output' of the same Control Surface to 'MRCC 880 (Port 1)'.

However, I suspect the above 'Input' and 'Output' might have to be 'MPD218 (Port A)' and then ticking the correct boxes below within the Inputs (Track/Sync/Remote/MPE) and Outputs (Track/Sync/Remote).

I've also looked at making a direct connection between the AKAI and MRCC using the MIDI Studio within the Mac's Audio MIDI Setup.

My expectation is that when I use the MIDI MON feature on the MRCC, I should see MIDI activity when I hit a pad on the AKAI, but I see no MON activity. I do see MIDI activity flashing in Ableton when I hit the AKAI, so I know the USB input of the AKAI into Ableton works.

Hopefully somebody out there is doing this and can explain where I'm going wrong.  


EDIT: So, I've tried routing USB MIDI into the 880 using a Novation LaunchKey Mini MkIII and that doesn't work either. I've hooked up another MIDI controller to DIN input 1 and when using MIDI Mon I see activity flashing on that input. When I start playing/recording in Ableton I see the incoming clock sync activity flashing on Virtual Port 1, but I get no incoming activity from either of my USB MIDI controllers (AKAI or Novation). When I press the PC input button MIDI IN 1 is lit green. If I then select the PC output button, it makes no difference to any incoming MIDI Monitoring whether I have Output 1 lit blue or not. Why won't USB MIDI signals from my controllers appear in the 880????? As mentioned above, even if I ignore Ableton and try making direct connections from the AKAI or the Novation using the MacOS MIDI Studio, I still don't see anything.