#21

This is excellent! I’ve been using Orca’s Heart with Stoermelder 8Face, which allows you to store up to 8 different panel settings (so, with the A/B switch, you can have 16 modulation-addressable scale note sets). It’s a great combination.

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#22

that’s a cool way to add more scales, i should check out 8face!

i’m planning to add expanders in the future that will give you gate inputs for scale notes as well.

#23

Morning adventure into the heart of Orca. 2 Orca’s Hearts sequencing Rings/Plaits and FM-OPs. Modulated by 2 Octasource.

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#24

oh_tt

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#25

Ok…so you are running orcas heart on teletype!?
Did you do this with multipass?

#26

not running yet - still porting. will hopefully have something to post soon.

and yeah, that’s the idea, to do a multipass implementation of orca’s heart which can then be run on any of the trilogy modules or teletype or ansible. the main question is how to replicate 8 knobs, 3 buttons, 13 inputs and 18 outputs, for my initial experiments i’m planning to use 2 TXis for knobs/corresponding inputs, teletype’s 4 CVs and gates for Mod outputs and instead of having Notes outputs send notes directly to just friends. although it’s nice to have physical outputs for Notes as well, to sequence non i2c modules and for self patching, so could use teletype+TXo combo or teletype+ansible or ansible+TXo.

instead of knobs could also use faderbank over i2c, but with TXis we also get inputs, and half of the fun is throwing modulation at it! so, several options to consider, and one of the questions to answer is how to provide multiple versions that make sense. for now though i just want to do a quick proof of concept with 2TXis + teletype + just friends.

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#27

Sounds great, always amazed by your relentless input of knowledge to the community!
Looking forward to more and the implementation over i2c, ill be building a couple txo and txi soon.
Thanks!

#28

proof of concept is working:

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#29

I think Orca’s Heart is my favourite VCV module… great job on this, it’s so intuitive easy to get started with

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#30

orca’s heart is now available in the vcvrack library!

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#31

oh cool
another reason why i need to try VCV again
i just spent two weeks on the Csound~ list helping get the csound~ max object updated for Win64/Max8

would you be interested in making a pd VCV module?

We could team up :slight_smile:

#32

you mean a module that would run pd in vcvrack? i’ll confess i know very little about pd so probably not the best candidate for the job - but happy to help with getting you started on vcv development! certainly not an expert on vcvrack dev, but can help with avoiding some of the gotchas i ran into when i started.

#33

Here’s a single Pd object (a pretty powerful one!) that has been ported to VCV. Might find some inspiration here?

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#34

Yes I saw that! But I am hopeful for a pd “host” that would let me prototype and create patches in pd and embed them into VCV

#35

There have been a few threads on Pd and VCV over on the VCV forums. I think the consensus plan is to add it as a scripting engine for the VCV Prototype module.

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#36

about 80% of orca’s heart ported to multipass:

now all parameters except speed can be controlled from grid. another thing i wanted to do to account for the lack of inputs/outputs was to take advantage of grid interface and implement a self modulation matrix. i added 2 as there are just too many sources - any combination of Notes and Modulation outputs can be routed to any of the parameters. so, 8 sources and 12 destinations times 2. this is the key to creating more complex sequences. i really like how it takes time to settle into a new groove.

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#37

How keyboard-usable will this be? I understand it’s probably not a priority right now, just curious about your guesstimate on where the chips will land :slight_smile:

#38

How do you have the voice allocation on Just Friends set up? It looks like there’s some sort of fixed allocation, not just the equivalent of JF.NOTE.

#39

do you mean a MIDI keyboard? yeah i will add some support for that, so then instead of choosing scale notes you just play a chord and it’ll work as an arpeggiator. it’ll need to be a MIDI keyboard with additional knobs / faders so that you have some way to control parameters.

it generates 6 sequences which are mapped to corresponding JF voices. could probably add a switch to use first available voice, if that’s useful?

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#40

Don’t forget latch. Then your arpeggiator is a sequencer again!

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