norns · on macOS

The sound computer,
on your Mac.

Verdandi runs norns natively on macOS: the same scripts, engines, softcut and maiden, in a window that is the device. Standalone, or as an AUv3 inside your DAW.

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Apple silicon · macOS 15 Sequoia or newer · free, GPL-3.0 · coffee welcome
The Verdandi window: the norns device with keys K1 to K3, encoders E1 to E3, the screen, the menu buttons and an output fader

Everything norns does. Plus the Mac.

The community's scripts run unchanged. Around them, Verdandi adds what a computer is good at: every sound on the machine as input, drag and drop, a mouse and a keyboard.

scripts

The whole catalog

Install and edit scripts in maiden, the norns web editor, exactly like on the device. SuperCollider engines, softcut and tape are all there.

input

MIC · SYS · APP

Record the microphone or interface, the sound of every other app, or a single app, straight into a script. A video in the browser, a soft synth. No loopback driver.

AUv3

norns in a DAW track

Insert the plugin in Logic, Live, Bitwig or Reaper: the track's audio and MIDI go into norns, and norns comes back into the track.

hardware

grid, arc, crow, MIDI

Plug in monome grids and arcs, crow and any MIDI controller over USB. No hardware? Open the virtual grid, arc and MIDI keyboard.

samples

Drop it on the window

Drag samples from the Finder, Voice Memos or a sample browser onto norns. A script that asks for a file opens the Finder right next to its own browser.

hands

Mouse and keyboard

Click the keys, drag the knobs, mix on the MIX page by mouse. return confirms, esc goes back. An output fader and MUTE sit right on the box.

No grid on the desk? Open one.

The virtual grid and arc behave like the real ones: scripts see a 64, 128 or 256 grid and a four-ring arc, the keyboard plays MIDI. Real hardware takes over when you plug it in.

The virtual grid window with lit keys
the virtual grid · 64 / 128 / 256
The virtual arc window with four lit rings
the virtual arc · drag or scroll a ring
The virtual MIDI keyboard window
the MIDI keyboard · mouse or computer keys

Get started

One disk image, everything inside: norns, SuperCollider, JACK, maiden, the plugin, the manual and the licenses.

  1. Download Verdandi.dmg from the latest release.
  2. Drag Verdandi into Applications and open it. It is not notarized, so macOS blocks the first start: System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.
  3. Allow the microphone, press 3 on SELECT and pick a script. The plugin appears in your DAW after the first start.
Early days. Verdandi works on the Mac it was built on and wants testers: other Macs, audio interfaces, monome hardware, crow, DAWs. The test checklist says what to try, issues are welcome.