scripting

Code as musical language.

Scripts describe to norns how it should function. Through scripts, an encoder can become a scrollable playhead, a button might trigger a flurry of arpeggios, The screen can become a portal.

You don’t need to know how to program before you’re able to write a script. Wanting to learn is the only true prerequisite, the same as any other language.

To help bridge the gap for non-coding artists, we’ve developed and collected a number of norns-specific resources. Through these pages, you’ll learn more about the approachable programming interface at the core of norns:

• studies // comprehensive tutorials on individual components of norns, highly beginner-friendly
• reference // an example-centric version of the norns API, for advanced use

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