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Monome norns (script footfoot): OSC control from Claude, scripts and controllers

38 named commands to drive Monome norns over OSC — from Claude (MCP), live-coding environments or a MIDI controller.

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Maker
Monome
Version
script footfoot (melocoi/footfoot @ 4cfea20)
Source
maker's documentation
OSC prefix
/norns_footfoot
README.mdfrom the author's repository; not claimed yet, anyone can improve itEdit

From the README of melocoi/footfoot at 4cfea20.

foot foot

This is just another looper.

Intended for intentionally unintentional playback systems.

You fill the system with live audio material, it plays it back, sort of.

There are six loops that range from 0 to 49 seconds in length. Each loop is constantly playing and has a chance to flip the direction the playhead is moving in. Each loop is set to a certain stereo position, and periodically these positions get shuffled.

CONTROLS

Here are the specific controls...

  • E2 - rec level -- indicated by brightness of track outline

  • E3 - pre level -- indicated by brightness of lower track portion

  • K2 --------- start record -- begins drawing rectangle

  • K2 again --- stop record -- stops drawing rectangle

  • K2 (long) --- clear record

  • K3 - switch track -- indicated by outline around track

  • K1 + K2 - flip play direction -- play head direction changes

  • K1 + K2 (long) - turn on/off auto flip

  • K1 + K3 - micro loop -- play head freezes
  • K1 + E3 - loop length -- indicated by size of blank space on track

story time

This script is the result of my efforts to implement a foot controller to allow for hands free live sampling with my various acoustic instruments. Hence the name foot foot. It is also the reason some parts of the system such as the flipping and the flopping of the sounds happen automatically and aperiodically. Along with the asymetry of the loop lengths, this creates an ever evolving bed of loops that go in and, mostly, out of phase with eachother. Rendering the simplest of phrases into a never ending, or thought of, stream of variations. Think Eliane Radigue's feedback works, or Brian Eno's seminal Music for Airports.

It wasn't until I had an opportunity to give a performance here in Montreal at a very interesting cathedral space that I finally finished my work on the foot control system and gave birth to the original foot foot script, which was called aFoot. The performance taking place in an acoustically rich environment inspired me to craft a performance using a viola, since I expected it would sound beautiful in such a reverberant space. As I am fairly new to the instrument I decided to get a little help from my friend Norns to give me a little more confidence performing amongst other drone and ambient artists..

Thanks to the ease of prototyping and the built in softcut engine, I was able to audition many different configurations of accompaniment in the lead up to the performance. Things got quite complex quite quickly but didn't sound good. It was at this point I deleted everything and I tried the simple approach presented here. Which led to what I found to be very beautiful results

Read the whole README on GitHub

Use it

Start the bridge with this driver; it forwards named OSC commands to the software:

osc-bridge run --device devices/monome/norns.vendor.fw-footfoot-4cfea20.json

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /norns_footfoot/param/{id}

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as norns_footfoot: ask “what can the Monome norns do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI controls

38 controls, each with its number, its range and the name to send

OSC commands

Command Arguments Name to send
Param id: string, value: float /norns_footfoot/param/{id}
Param {set} {id} set: string, id: string, value: float /norns_footfoot/param/{set}/{id}
Remote key n: int, z: int /norns_footfoot/remote/key
Remote enc n: int, delta: int /norns_footfoot/remote/enc
Remote brd code: int, z: int /norns_footfoot/remote/brd
Param loop 1 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_1
Param loop 2 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_2
Param loop 3 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_3
Param loop 4 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_4
Param loop 5 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_5
Param loop 6 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/loop_6
Param pRec value: int /norns_footfoot/param/pRec
Param scale value: int /norns_footfoot/param/scale
Param pitch 1 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_1
Param pitch 2 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_2
Param pitch 3 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_3
Param pitch 4 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_4
Param pitch 5 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_5
Param pitch 6 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pitch_6
Param pFlip value: int /norns_footfoot/param/pFlip
Param flip 1 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_1
Param flip 2 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_2
Param flip 3 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_3
Param flip 4 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_4
Param flip 5 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_5
Param flip 6 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/flip_6
Param lev 1 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_1
Param lev 2 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_2
Param lev 3 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_3
Param lev 4 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_4
Param lev 5 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_5
Param lev 6 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/lev_6
Param pre 1 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_1
Param pre 2 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_2
Param pre 3 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_3
Param pre 4 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_4
Param pre 5 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_5
Param pre 6 value: float /norns_footfoot/param/pre_6

JSON

The same MIDI as norns.vendor.fw-2.9.4, which this firmware shares.

Limitations

Source: the Lua source of the norns script footfoot by ululo (melocoi/footfoot at 4cfea20), listed in norns.community. Shares the norns system OSC of monome/norns.vendor.fw-2.9.4 (port 10111, /param, /remote): give the norns' IP address as host override. Its own routes are the 33 parameter(s) whose id is written out in its source, read without running it, with range, options and default when written out too; set them while the script runs on the norns. 2 parameter call(s) could not be read without running the script (ids built at run time, values from variables) and are not mapped: reach them with the base driver's /param/{id}. Parameters added by libraries or engines outside the repository are not mapped either. A value goes in the parameter's units (an option's index from 1). MIDI is not mapped: the script's MIDI handling is its own and parameter MIDI mappings are learned by each user (PMAP). Untested on hardware.

Other versions

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Frequently asked questions

Can an AI agent like Claude control the Monome norns?

Yes: SynthHub's hosted MCP server knows the Monome norns's MIDI map, and its browser relay lets the agent send it parameter changes or load a sound, each sound change confirmed by you.