#449

I’ll be in Montreal for the fall/winter, I’ll definitely be giving talks and workshops there if you want to do the train ride north, or I would also be happy to come down to NYC if we can put something together!

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#450

I’m in NYC! I haven’t dipped my toe too far into the Orca waters but I would be interested! @izzy and I would definitely be down to help organize! (Orcanize?)

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#451

If something happens in NYC, I’d be on the first bus from Boston!

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#452

Cool! Let us compare notes :slight_smile:

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#453

Now that I’ve had a chance to play around with this code, I can see how awkward what I’m asking to do is.

Would it at all be possible to replace the octave parameter in the MIDI operator with semitone transposition?

#454

Would it at all be possible to replace the octave parameter in the MIDI operator with semitone transposition?

You can implement that in your repository if you need, yeah. I cannot do this as part of the master branch of Orca(it would break everything), but if you need help maybe I can show you how to create your own operators.

tiny orca update: I’ve just pushed a new build that fixes an issue with the clock in/out.

#455

I’m in Brooklyn and I’d LOVE to do this.

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#456

Hi guys :slight_smile:

ORCA / ORCA-c seam to be awesome and fun to play with… I honestly think it have really big potentials as long it keep this minimalistic approach.

One thing that is a puzzle for me it the clock. Does it support MIDI clock? If so, I havn’t figured how it works yet. I want to use an external MIDI clock that sends to ORCA so that I can use that same clock with the rest of my gear as a main clock. Sure I can make an extra midi channel out from ORCA that can count as my clock, but I don’t wish ORCA to be my main clock so I need it to receive a MIDI clock.

Is this supported?

Cheers,
/Frank

#457

Hopping on a transatlantic flight tomorrow and wanted to use the time to review the video tutorials by @Allieway_Audio to learn and play a bit with ORCА. Reading in the most recent posts that a bit has changed since the videos were uploaded. Would it still be worth watching these clips just for the bare bones? Would you suggest that I run mainly through my own ample libraries or through ableton? I’m hoping that with 11.5 hours on a plane, I can get as much as I need lined up, so I don’t hit any massive roadblocks and can use the time efficiently!

#458

MIDI clock was just implemented (this week) in regular Orca. Pull the most recent version from github to check that out.

If you have issues with the clock stuff, please check in here as I worked on this code and I might be able to help.

Orca-c is quite a ways behind in features right now. Unfortunately, I’m not sure there’s a feature comparison chart or anything to check what’s not there yet.

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#459

So how do I go about to use it? I see there is an & option to receive midi notes, but it cant be that right!?
Anyhow I cant find any explanation about & or clock in.

Cheers
Frank

#460

what are you using to send clock?

For example from ableton, just set your midi preferences for the midi out to whatever you have Orca set for midi in (select the Orca midi input from the midi menu) - and then start transport. Ableton needs to have Sync and Remote active on the out.

It should just work. (without any operators on the grid)

(the bpm counter in the bottom of the orca window should change to midi when it’s getting clock)

FWIW - this is brand new and I’ll try to write some documentation for it next week.

#461

I use hardware… It will mostly be modular stuff. But for the sake of simplicity for a test; directly from Analogue Solutions Megacity sequencer to my Roland soundcard with MIDI to ORCA. The interface selected in ORCA is then “Studio Capture input”

Are you saying that it should work in the new version? I tried several times before to make that work without any luck. Don’t I have to set it to receive midi somewhere in Cmd+K ore how does ORCA know if to follow local bpm ore external by midi ?

#462

Ahh ok… you answered… It should change to MIDI… ok I will have a try :slight_smile: Thanks

#463

The midi input device is set from the application menu, not in the Orca window itself (or the cmd-K commander)

it will automatically switch to incoming clock if one is present. If that clock stops, orca will revert to it’s own internal clock.

#464

Yeah I understand… It was just that part where it should automatic switch to MIDI instead of displaying the BPM that I ment :slight_smile:

I still can’t make it work. I don’t know it there is anything i’m doing wrong. I don’t need to have any code running in ORCA to confirm if this works correct!? That should not matter.

I’m running MIDI directly to ORCA from Megacity, and I can see that it’s received by MIDI monitor, but ORCA does not respond to it.
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And I know that Megacity outputs clock cuz it works with Ableton over the same Soundcard/MIDI interface. Also I just tried with MIDI out and from my NerdSEQ and that is the same.

I don’t have problems sending MIDI tones ore CC’s for that matter to various devices. That works fine, it’s just that the clock ore lack of clock output on MIDI seam to be unstable. My tested workaround that I expected to work better was to set a MIDI channel to fx. 8 and just leave that running with a counter and use it only as a clock output. That how ever also seams to be unstable cuz it goes out of sync with the rest of my modular gear at some point. So that’s my hole motivation to make an external clock sync the ORCA instead.

#465

It’s interesting… when I use the &. I can see the notes getting received. So the midi input does work, but it does not seam to work with the clock part.

I be dammed… I tried another MIDI interface… a cheap usb/midi… and that works … it makes no sence cuz it used to work with Ableton but perhaps Ableton can somehow detect clock on just the notes… !?

Anyway now it works :slight_smile: Awesome…

#466

fwiw - I don’t see any clock messages in your midi monitor output. (Notes don’t matter here - clock is entirely separate from notes or ccs).

#467

yes I noticed that after… and I got it working with another usb/midi adaptor… It’s strange why clock is not working over the Roland soundcard… Im sure it use to work, or maybe I just thought it did.

#468

Also fwiw - I looked briefly at the Megacity manual it it make no mention of midi clock. I suspect it does not send proper midi clock messages.