#61

Orac 2.0 beta is going to be released very soon, and lets just say its going to be relevant to a wider audience :wink:

anyone that is interested should subscribe to my youtube channel where it will be announced, with full details ā€¦ you wonā€™t want to miss it :wink:

(oh, and remember the bell icon ā€¦ otherwise you wont get a notification!)

24 Likes
#62

Very excited for this! Orac is so incredibly fabulous. Thank you thank you thank you :partying_face:

#63

Awesome news, canā€™t wait! Cheers from Valladolid :blush:

#64

fantastic news!/////

#65

really hope this makes it to norns! loved it on the organelleā€¦

2 Likes
#66

Great news! Just subscribed

#67

Yesssssssssssssssssss very into this

#68

mlr inside orac please!!!

4 Likes
#69

Really curious as to if Nornsā€™ processor could handle multimbrality. I guess I also wondered the same about the Organelle and you surprised me @TheTechnobear!

For anyone who doesnā€™t know, with Orac, you could do something like this:

Mlr could be synced with Awake and capturing loops which in turn could be processed with Easygrain.

Foulplay could be sending midi info for each track to a different patch inside Norns like Molly the Polly, or any engine that could have a midi channel. Or anything at the end of your usb->midi cable.

Etcā€¦Itā€™s powerful and modular in nature, just limited by system resources (cpu/ram). Hoping Norns starts allowing us to access our usb drives soon for kits and that would really help with Orac resources.

But/// YAY. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

3 Likes
#70

Not sure what route this is going, but I would even be thrilled with Norns simply running the exact same Orac 2.0 that Organelle gets, with all the existing PD modules ready to go. That in itself would be an incredibly powerful application (and with less CPU limitations than Organelle).

1 Like
#71

@naxuu Organelle runs on PD, but Norns runs on SC/Lua so I doubt that will ever happen.

edit:
Thanks @Jonny for the clarification! Didnā€™t know that was possible. my bad!

1 Like
#72

Supercollider is just the engine. They have structured the Norns software/firmware in a way that PD could be used down the road.

2 Likes
#73

In a general manner of speaking I seem to remember that for various reasons @TheTechnobear wasnā€™t going to invest himself much in the norns ecosystem and Orac in particular seems to me like quite a huge task to adapt to the norns platform so I doubt any of all these options will happen in the near future. Letā€™s be happy with what we have and the way the ecosystem is built now and letā€™sā€¦ Love the organelle also for what it does and how it does it :slight_smile:

4 Likes
#74

While Iā€™m definitely excited about orac developments wherever @TheTechnobear chooses to bring them, I thought it might also be useful for folks to be aware of @jahā€™s R engine for norns.

3 Likes
#75

very nearly there, here is a little taster of what you can expect ā€¦

here is the planā€¦

Tomorrow :

  • Orac 2.0 new features / walkthru video (relevant to all platforms)
  • Orac 2.0 Remote Clients (relevant to all platforms)
  • Orac 2.0 Organelle video
  • Orac 2.0 Organelle beta release

Thursday :

  • Orac 2.0 Raspberry PI video
  • Orac 2.0 Raspberry PI beta release

Friday:

  • Orac 2.0 Eurorack video
  • Orac 2.0 QuBit Nebulae & Bela Salt beta release

As its just me, Im needing to spread things out a bit to ease my workload, and let me finish off a few things in the background.

30 Likes
#76

who knows what the future will bringā€¦ last week, I didnā€™t even know I was releasing Orac on the Nebulae ā€¦ but when I see a technical challenge, sometimes I cannot resist :wink:

that saidā€¦why not get a Raspberry PI3 to run Orac 2.0 ?
its 40$, add a soundcard (I highly recommend the Blokas PiSound), and your ready to goā€¦ (*)

the thing is, the rPI3 is great, but itā€™s still fairly limited in power compared to a desktop/laptop,
so it actually is useful to have multiple boxes - also gives you things like separate outputs, and additional midi IO, which is always handy.

(wait till you see the Raspberry PI Orac video, I hope you will be really surprised how easy its going to be to get up nā€™ running , even for non-techies!)

or thereā€™s the Organelle, or Eurorack - thats partly the reason Im going down this route, one box how ever great rarely fits all use-cases or budgets - so choice/variety is good :slight_smile:

(*) Im pretty sure you can interface the monome grid/arc to the rPI, if you want.

6 Likes
#77

Awesome! :heart:
Since I have a PiSound Raspi I canā€™t be happier! Say, what kind of screen would you recommend for a Pisound/Raspi/Orac setup?

Thanks, canā€™t wait!

1 Like
#78

In my experience, running a GUI in addition to audio pushes the RPi3+ a little beyond its capacity. Thatā€™s probably why @TheTechnobear is planning to tell us about ā€œremote clientsā€ as the reveal continues.

But if someone has a great configuration that works, Iā€™d love to hear about it! I have an official Raspberry Pi touch display and itā€™s a very nice screen. Would love to take it out of the drawer and use it.

2 Likes
#79

I was thinking about a little guiless screen like the O_c one, a bit like in the Organelle or in Norns. That might be interesting :slight_smile:

1 Like
#80

Oh, yes, I agree! ā€¦