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Monome norns - graintopia: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Monome norns - graintopia as named OSC addresses — 30 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Monome norns - graintopia
Vendor Monome
OSC prefix /norns_graintopia
Source 🎛️ Derived from an Electra One community preset
Revision per Electra preset
Upstream electra-preset
Driver file devices/monome/norns_graintopia.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/monome/norns_graintopia.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /norns_graintopia/list 63

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

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (30)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/norns_graintopia/list 1 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/db 3 -96–16 continuous
/norns_graintopia/boundary_start 6 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/boundary_start 0 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/move_duration 8 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/temperature 10 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/grains 4 0–6 continuous
/norns_graintopia/reverb 5 0–20 continuous
/norns_graintopia/boundary_width 7 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/timescale 9 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/tuning 13 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/slew_rate 14 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/freeze 11 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rec 12 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_weight 15 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_weight 18 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_weight 21 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_weight 24 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_weight 27 0–100 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_tuning 16 -48–48 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_tuning 19 -48–48 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_tuning 22 -48–48 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_tuning 25 -48–48 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_tuning 28 -48–48 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_volume 17 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_volume 20 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_volume 23 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_volume 26 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/rand_volume 29 0–127 continuous
/norns_graintopia/clear_land 2 0–127 continuous

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /norns_graintopia/note/on <note> <velocity>, /norns_graintopia/cc/<number> <value>, /norns_graintopia/pitchbend <0-16383>, /norns_graintopia/program_change <n>.

Limitations

Imported from an Electra One community preset. The mapping reflects the preset author's editorial choices: parameter naming, ranges, and which params are exposed. Untested on hardware in this repo.