#691

aha! i never got past velocity…

#692

Been a couple of months since I had time to sit down and properly mess around with Orca, today I finally did and I am quite happy with how things are getting along.

Here I’m using it with ableton, but I want to give playing around with another open source synthesizer or sampler a go. What’s an easy way to start? I started reading up on Tidal Cycles and Supercollider but they seem insanely difficult given my very limited knowledge of coding. Is Pilot the way to go for a beginner?

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#693

I have to imagine Pilot’s probably a great way to start, but one of my favorite approaches is to use VCV Rack with loopMIDI. Rack itself and most of its plugins are free and opensource.

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#694

yes, pilot rocks
plus all your existing ORCA code
will make sounds
just by swapping the : (midi operator)
for a ; (udp operator)
lots of fun ahead

#695

I use this combo all the time and it is really fantastic.

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#696

That’s a very good idea! I have been messing around with VCV for while now but never really looked at how it deals with MIDI. Will definitely give it a try.

@abalone that seems easy enough, will give it a go, thanks!

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#697

Here’s a little video I made a while back of orca driving rack. Those two together can be quite a bit of fun.

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#698

Has anyone figured out how to use MIDI In with the latest versions on macOS?

I used to clock it to a DAW via MIDI in previous versions, but “Next Input Device” seems to do nothing now since the menus changed. I’ve tried several builds the last month or two with no result.

#699

Not totally ORCA related, but has anyone else experienced issues with VCVrack getting choked on midi input after a time, or with a little too much input? I was running a patch with steady 16th notes coming from ORCA and after a little bit it seems to drop triggers. Could be something on my rack config but it worked well going to ableton.

#700

This is a really great tutorial, thanks!

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#701

hi @neauoire - I love the idea of using this in the browser but I tried going to hundredrabbits.github.io like it shows in the screenshot above and that page doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Is this still an option, and if so, what’s the best way to do it? thanks!!

#702

@neauoire sorry disregard… it works if i put /orca/ at the end.

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#703

I finally caught up in this thread after discovering orca a couple weeks ago. I think the first instance was someone posting videos on instagram using orca on a norns. At any rate, I’ve had a chance to play around with it, sequencing Pilot & Microfreak with great success, as well as my Bleep Drum (with limited success, the bleep drum didn’t seem able to keep up with all the bangs being sent out, I had a lot of dropped notes). I’m looking forward to trying it with either Estra or Gull for some sampled percussion. It’s been really fun so far, hacking things together, tweaking, adding, modifying as you go along. I’m very grateful for this tool, and look forward to future developments.

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#704

Thank you for taking the time to write a message, if you ever have any question don’t hesitate to ask on here!

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#705

Hi there, LOVE Orca but having a few problems with Win64 - tested and reproduced on 2 systems.

  1. Save and load doesn’t seem to be working? The open option does not open selection box most of the time (it randomly does sometimes.) I have not been able to save and open a file.

  2. There seem to be user files stored on the comp somewhere - settings like zoom etc. Where are these stored if I want to delete them to start again completely fresh?

[Solved]

Rename saved file to .orca and use ctrl L \ ctrl B to inject.

[Solved]

Users/NAME/AppData/Roaming/Orca

#707

I’ve heard of that happening on windows, but I can’t replicate it, I think it has to do with the page having been clicked or not. If you don’t touch the canvas, before using the menu, it might not work. But I’m not sure.

There seem to be user files stored on the comp somewhere - settings like zoom etc. Where are these stored if I want to delete them to start again completely fresh?

Just for a reference, the data that orca stores are:

  • bpm
  • zoom
  • theme
#708

I feel like the save and open functions sometimes don’t work for me using the dropdown menu, but always work using ctrl-s and ctrl-o. (Using linux) Edit-- oh just tried and both commands work via dropdown!

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#709

I’ve had issues with save / open on macbook as well. Downloaded mid-November. What I do to fix it is toggle transport (space bar) and it usually seems to correct itself. I’m probably not addressing the cause, but it works as a quick workaround.

#710

@neauoire I’m curious- is there a way to have the browser-based Orca communicate over WebMIDI to another browser-based application? For instance, I’d love to have Orca on one screen and Hydra on another. I know there’s an option to send CC messages using the ! operator and Hydra supports CC input, but I can’t figure out how to pass the CC values from one application to another.

#711

Is there a way to have the browser-based Orca communicate over WebMIDI to another browser-based application?

Yeah, although the midi implementation in hydra is very poor. I guess you already have some sort of controller working with hydra, but to control it via orca, you might need to change to the correct midi device in hydra so it listens to the right thing if you have many devices.

  • In Hydra, select the correct midi device.

I just tried it, and Hydra automatically detected and selected Midi Through(the default virtual midi thing on linux).

In Hydra, I recommend adding a console.log(midiMessage.data) to the getMIDIMessage function, it took me a while to figure out why I wasn’t getting any feedback.

I’d love to see what you make with Orca :slight_smile: