#201

Wow! Thanks. Will give this a go tonight.

Later: Perfect instruction, @scanner_darkly

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#202

thanks for feedback - glad the instructions were clear! added them to the manual as well.

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#203

Will test this weekend once my highly anticipated shipment arrives! Total Orca (and Monome) noob, so this should be interesting. And fun.

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#204

note for folks that are just starting on Orca - iā€™m in the process of updating the manual, so some sections might be a bit confusing or use older terminology. everything from Introduction and up to and including Scales is good to go and shouldnā€™t change. iā€™m working hard to finish the rest this week, and also planning to use the upcoming canadian thanksgiving to do another couple of videos.

and thanks for giving me the incentive to update the manual - itā€™s been on my todo list for far too long! (and big thanks to @accountboy - iā€™ve updated Tracks section based on your feedback!)

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#205

Amazing. Iā€™ve been watching the youtube videos, from which I generally learn better than manuals to begin with. That said, Iā€™ll stay tuned! Thank you for the hard work.

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#206

btw, some stuff in the videos applies to previous versions only - i added warnings to the videos when this is the case.

#207

Good to know - Iā€™ll keep that in mind! Thanks.

#208

3 more sections of the manual updated - Triggers | Weights, Mutate | Randomize and Presets. getting thereā€¦

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#209

Oh, wow awesome! Love the work/love you put into this alt_firmware! I didnā€™t have much difficulty though to read the first manual, but due to lack of time I havenā€™t played with it for a long time, so a refresher with the new manual will certainly be good!

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#210

Potentially dumb question, but can this/will this be portable over to an Ansible?

#211

not a dumb question at all! i do plan to port it to ansible at some point. i really want to hear orca generate 4 related sequences.

i should clarify - iā€™m considering doing a full port (so, standalone orca running on ansible module) and also doing a simpler version that could be one of the ansible apps.

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#212

quick start video:

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#213

Very nice, @scanner_darkly. Answered a couple of my remaining questions about Orca. Great sequencer!

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#214

Amazing. Thank you! This will save me a lot of time getting going - and makes me very happy to have sold the rene! hehe

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#215

Rene is very cool, but I doubt youā€™ll look back one you get going with Orca.

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#216

rene and orca are quite similar on a basic level, both step through 16 preselected notes non linearly. i didnā€™t actually realize this similarity until after orca was done - the initial inspiration for orca was the blacet binary zone module.

rene does have a benefit over orca in that you have individual knobs for each note, so might work better for some workflows.

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#217

using presets for arpeggiation or as a performance tool:

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#218

No shade intended by the comparison to the Rene. Itā€™s a good thing, for me - the overlap in functionality makes it more intuitive coming from a modular world, but with infinitely more hands on control, something Iā€™ve been craving from sequencers ever since I decided to go eurorack. Itā€™s really a blessing. Between all these videos (and whatever others you may have planned) I would find it hard to NOT get started quickly :slight_smile:

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#219

didnā€™t read it that way! itā€™s interesting to compare the concepts behind them though - iā€™m sure there are many unexplored possibilities around the idea of generating a path through a fixed sequence, especially if the path itself is not static.

#220

Exactly. And thereā€™s no way anyone would claim that itā€™s somehow infringing on the basis of thinking about things in x-y grids!