#185

[’\’]= ‘Outputs random note within octave’ - this is incredibly useful on the Norns version.
The way i was doing it was using a randomized step sequencer

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#186

It can also output notes of defined scale (right input)

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#187

Outputs random note within octave.

Do you mean something like this?

..R7.
..4AA
:03E.
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#188

I mean exactly that! Thankyou :slight_smile:

#189

I’m new to Orca, but I really like aesthetics of it! And I’m looking forward to use it in real stuff soon. I have a couple of questions.

Is there a possibility to get Orca to have a complete transparent background? It would be very nice and useful for visuals.

And I saw that M had been changed from Modulo to Multiply, seems good. But do you have an idea of getting modulo back? Maybe use % as used in Maxmsp?

Thanks for a great tool!

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#190

Hi @mwo,
It’s possible to hide orca’s background but it’s not supported in the itchio builds, if you build it yourself from npm, join us in the chatroom, and ask @forbid how they do it. There are a few people on twitter that use this hack as well.

And I saw that M had been changed from Modulo to Multiply, seems good. But do you have an idea of getting modulo back? Maybe use % as used in Maxmsp?

You can do a modulo in orca like this:

1X.
4I8

Here’s an amazing Orca track with the clear background hack.

Correction, this does not use the clear background hack, this particular hack animates the background image.

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#191

thank you! I’ve figured out a bit more since that video was posted and look forward to even more. I don’t know why a tiny limited device/screen has inspired me to dig in, but so it goes.
Lineup for that festival looks amazing. Godspeed you!

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#192

A question about sending midi cc values:

When I send a bang to ^008 it sends the value 28 to CC 64 on channel 0. I understand how the CC value is being calculated, but not the knob id. How do I address CCs below 64? (I’m trying to send values to CCs 40-50 on a VolcaFM)

#193

The current orca builds address only from 64 and up.
You’ll have to modify cc.js(line 27)

Sorry, there isn’t a better way at the moment.

Also, the midi cc operator, as of today, will be changed to ! instead of ^ since azerty keyboards are having a hard time inputing the caret character.

#194

No worries! I’ve been getting around this pretty easily with some midi mapping in Ableton, but I thought maybe I was missing something simple!

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#195 
.....45..gVf....
...2C5..........
...D1.1Kg.......
...*:03.f1......
................
................

I keep on having this problem where K won’t output one or more of the variables, in this case G. Also happens on V when I’m trying to get it to output down. Thanks!

#196

@zaneschaffer In that snipped you just shared, I can see the output, being f, right underneath g in the thing you pasted. It seems to be working properly.

....gVf.
2C5.....
.3D01Kg.
...:03f.

I’m thinking that maybe you’re confusing K and V, in your example, you should be using V, as you want the output to happen under the operator, here’s how you would use K.

iV0.oV3.nVC
...........
3Kion......
.:03C......
#197

ohshit my bad that wasn’t the thing I meant to paste in relation to that question. This is the situation I find myself in :

.3Kh.f...............
...2D............3R8.
................fV7..
....J..4Khsf.........
.........1a7.........
....J....JJJ.........
.....Y.:01a73........

One of the K (f) is outputting the right number but the other isnt, and neither is the h

#198

Ah! Okay, so this is a common issue most people, have with variables.

The order at which they are declared is important, have a look at this snippet:

.....Va
.......
aV5..Va
.....5.
.......
aV6..Va
.....6.

You’ll notice that the first Va outputs nothing, since at this stage of the parsing process, there had been no assignment to the a variable yet. Orca runs from the top left, to the bottom right.

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#199

OH! it has to work from top to bottom I see! Very much appreciate the quick response time as well. Love this program a lot and excited to dive into it more

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#200

Github readme needs an update for this.

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#201

I’ve corrected the docs! Sorry.

euclid
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Today’s List of Awesome Changes

  • U is now a euclid pattern operator that will join D as another bang operator.
  • Z is now an operator that animates its output to a value, similar to I, but you just feed a rate, and a target, and it will animate to that value over the next frames. This allows for MidiCC’s knob continuous mode, or to animate anything, really.

Enjoy :slight_smile:

Here’s a demo of the new U operator.

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#202

How do you do that ? :slight_smile:

#203

This is amazing, though I see no reference to a norns version in the Library. Where is this available @its_your_bedtime?

#204

it’s here: https://github.com/itsyourbedtime/orca

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