Blackbird: Music Thing Workshop Now Supports Monome Crow πΆ
Learn about Blackbird's new support for Monome Crow with our intro, video manual, and demo of the Music Thing Modular Workshop System!

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1.7K views β’ Dec 25, 2025

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A very long introduction, video manual, and demonstration of the blackbird program card for the Music Thing Modular Workshop System!
Download the firmware and read more here: https://tomwhitwell.github.io/Workshop_Computer/programs/41-blackbird/index.html
Check out the open source code: https://github.com/TomWhitwell/Workshop_Computer/tree/main/releases/41_blackbird
Huge thank you to:
- Tom Whitwell for the Workshop System
- Chris Johnson for the ComputerCard framework
- Brian Crabtree and Trent Gill (monome & Whimsical Raps) for the original crow and the open source crow firmware
- Zack Scholl (infinitedigits) for encouragement and proving Lua can work on RP2040 with his midi-to-cv project
- Ben Regnier (Q*Ben) for extensive testing, feedback, and hard work on porting bowery scripts over to bbbowery
Norns script credits:
Awake script developed by Brian Crabtree https://llllllll.co/t/awake/21022
Acid Test by Zack Scholl (aka infinitedigits) https://llllllll.co/t/acid-test/52201
Loom by Mark Eats https://llllllll.co/t/loom/21091
Buoys by Lyle Mills https://llllllll.co/t/buoys-v1-2-0/37639
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:46 What is crow?
8:25 Connecting to web-druid
10:00 basics: hello blackbird
15:08 Live coding with web-druid
38:12 Visualizing signals
39:38 Writing your own scripts
44:36 Uploading a script
46:47 Setting up a 2nd card
54:00 Why I made blackbird
55:19 Connecting to Max MSP
59:12 Connecting to Ableton Live
1:02:19 Connecting to norns
1:14:03 Outroduction
Download the firmware and read more here: https://tomwhitwell.github.io/Workshop_Computer/programs/41-blackbird/index.html
Check out the open source code: https://github.com/TomWhitwell/Workshop_Computer/tree/main/releases/41_blackbird
Huge thank you to:
- Tom Whitwell for the Workshop System
- Chris Johnson for the ComputerCard framework
- Brian Crabtree and Trent Gill (monome & Whimsical Raps) for the original crow and the open source crow firmware
- Zack Scholl (infinitedigits) for encouragement and proving Lua can work on RP2040 with his midi-to-cv project
- Ben Regnier (Q*Ben) for extensive testing, feedback, and hard work on porting bowery scripts over to bbbowery
Norns script credits:
Awake script developed by Brian Crabtree https://llllllll.co/t/awake/21022
Acid Test by Zack Scholl (aka infinitedigits) https://llllllll.co/t/acid-test/52201
Loom by Mark Eats https://llllllll.co/t/loom/21091
Buoys by Lyle Mills https://llllllll.co/t/buoys-v1-2-0/37639
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:46 What is crow?
8:25 Connecting to web-druid
10:00 basics: hello blackbird
15:08 Live coding with web-druid
38:12 Visualizing signals
39:38 Writing your own scripts
44:36 Uploading a script
46:47 Setting up a 2nd card
54:00 Why I made blackbird
55:19 Connecting to Max MSP
59:12 Connecting to Ableton Live
1:02:19 Connecting to norns
1:14:03 Outroduction
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Dec 25, 2025
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