Hello,

Waiting to receive my NDLR (for a loooong time ;-)), I'm reading the manual to learn basics and I have a question about Chords in NDLR.

How can I tell NDLR to play Chords that are not in the scale selected such as secondary dominant chords or chords from parallel scales (eg . C major selected and I want to play a chord from Cminor scale) ? Can I do that with NDRLR ? Do I have to use the Chord Sequencer ?
I did'n find an answer in the manual.

 Can you also please explain how alt1 & alt2 chords are built ?

All the best.
Eric.

https://soundcloud.com/broken-gadget/we-need-change

It uses the Ndlr, Roland D110 and Elektron Digitakt. I felt the need to try and do something that responded to the recent events in Minneapolis and around the world.

Take care

Something curious is happening to my NDRL - https://imgur.com/a/tynckVg - the screen goes blank in the middle, about 20 seconds after boot. This started to happen 2 week ago, even though I changed nothing, no firmware update, no cable or power changes. What could be going on?

When I push a button, the screen comes back. It does not come back on push of one of the chord buttons. If I remember correctly, it happened only occasionally in the beginning, but now it's on every power cycle. Firmware is 1.1.064. Planning to upgrade soon, I'm just wondering if I should be worried about anything else.

Nice to meet you all, guys. I can't find a decent cello sound, so I'd appreciate it if someone advised me one. Have no idea, maybe there are some brand packs from Cremona like this, or maybe Polstein cello sample libs. anyway, I don't like the ones from orchestra libs, so if you've worked with specific cello ones, let me know

I know I should upgrade, but have a project I'd like to complete so am currently using version 1.054. The Ndlr is synced via Midi Port B to the Digitakt drum machine. When I arm the Ndlr and start the Digitakt, they sync together, but I can't manually change the chord degree. If I leave the Digitakt running, stop the Ndlr and then restart it I can then manually select the chord degree on the Ndlr. I'd expect to be able to change the chord type from the Ndlr when it is started from the armed state. 

Any ideas please?

Best regards

Tim

I wonder how much fun this would be with NDLR?

https://www.musictech.net/news/gear/bast...di-looper/

Yet another reason for MRCC.

Check out Loopop's MPC Live II review. The NDLR makes an appearance, slaved to the MPC. You can hear NDLR play and see MPC recording a motif about 19 min in.

https://youtu.be/eRJ4EhxO_D4

Hello,

This is my second experiment with the NDLR

Honored to share with you

Thanks to everyone

https://youtu.be/zbD6M0GSIp0

My understanding of how the NDLR transpose channel works is that it takes incoming midi notes from the key of C, and transposes them to the key and scale of the NDLR.

The idea is, presumably, that if you have an external controller, you always play in C major and you will never play a 'wrong' note. Novation Circuit has a similar feature to map scales to its pads. You move the root note and select the scale type, but play the pads similarly for all keys and scales (except chromatic). This is a helpful feature for many because it places guardrails around certain mistakes.

I want to be allowed to take the training wheels off. Many melodies have chromatic notes that are not 'wrong,' but are outside the selected scale of the NDLR. I want to be allowed to play those notes. Enough with the bumper bowling, if I gutter bowl I take full responsibility.

What I want it to do is take incoming midi notes, and transpose them into the key of the NDLR. If the incoming midi notes are rooted in C, and the NDLR's key is currently Bb, the NDLR would transpose them by a fixed -2 (or +10) semitones, disregarding whether the resulting note was in the selected scale. If I move the NDLR's key to D, now the transposition would be +2 (or -10) semitones. And so on.

Arturia has a similar feature with its sequencers eg Beatstep Pro. For a sequence you define the root note, then you can transpose the sequence on the fly by selecting another root note. To my understanding, this naively transposes the sequence by the interval between the root notes. There is no concept of scales, just transposing notes up or down.

To make it work in a similar way would require defining the incoming midi root in addition to what midi channel to transpose. Unless the incoming midi notes were assumed to have a root note of C all the time, which is oversimplified. Although C is a great default setting, if the root is forced to be C, then I can never play in any other key.

While on this topic, why not multiple channels of transposition? Assuming the hardware can do it, could be exposed to the user as a 'Transposition Matrix,' activating and selecting each channel, the original root of incoming notes, whether to use the scale or not, and whatever else related to the transposition (for instance there could be settings related to how the NDLR decides to transpose up or down, I can think of four: always up, always down, shortest distance from root (modulo six?) up first, and same down first). That would be a powerful feature.

Hi,
I missed the NDLR campaign but I really want one.  When will the next batch be released for reserving/ordering?

Regards

Chris SWift