#431

I’ve hooked Orca up to the Deluge over standard midi (through a mio interface), and it is behaving as though orca isn’t sending out note off messages. It is working wonderfully with kits/samples, but the synth engines go berserk. Anyone have any ideas about what’s up?

Also, I’m dying to get the “official” release @Frederickk has been talking about above. I’ve been having a great time with the dev release with the engines in it. It actually inspired me to make a minimal setup away from my computer for the first time in a while. Thank you for all your contributions!

#432

Right after I sent that, I realized I hadn’t tried the “official” release with midi out. Everything is working fine in that version, so maybe this is a bug report on the engine integration version? Still thanks!

#433

@mtreanor yeah, the engines branch is about 85% ready for primetime. Aside from engine bugs, @TanSaturn and I are working to ensure I didn’t screw up any Crow implementations in my merge. Stay tuned for just a touch longer while I stabilize for release. :pray:

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#434

I need to do a little more testing, but the crow stuff is looking good. I am getting a bug where playback stops when I use the $ operator. I get the same problem in my branch. Does anyone else see this?

#435

Hello all, I am a bit confused. Because text goes Left to Right Seems like most of my code logically goes east.

For example

.C…D1
.8C.*H
…22GE.

With the following bangs catching the note

:04Df.
:04Ef.
:04Df.
:04Df.
:04Df.
:04Gf.
:04Df.

How might I make this logically go North or West or South.
I want something that will function more like a Rene sequence that is cartesian in nature.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated !

#436

@eyeiaye this thread is mostly for technical issues/suggestions with the Norns version of Orca, your question is general and should go in the main Orca thread. I’ll answer it here, but feel free to continue on the other one.

.............................
.............:03C............
......R......................
......a4TNSEW................
.....D2.E....................
.....*Y*J....N...............
.....6.xE....................
0..W...W.W...E.......E:03D...
.:03F........................
.............................
.............................
.............................
.............:03E............
.............................
#437

Thanks so much. Will move to the other category. Also thanks so much for answering my question. Now I can get my head around it :slight_smile:

#438

I’ve been through this thread a couple times, and can’t seem to see if there is a frame reset option anywhere. Any chance we can get this option in an update?

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#439

Hello dears, I’m trying to expand this amazing sequencer.
I’m doing minor modifications to the orca ops to close them to my workflow.
For example there is a slow counter which resets every 64, there is a write operator which offsets to upper left, there is a counter which counts linearly around 2 numbers and so on, some little features.
I implemented also the new round bracket operator “(” which reads ARC encoders position.

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#440

OH WOW! Do you have a link to your github branch? I’ve got some time off from work coming up and would like to spend some of it playing with this!

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#441

yes, it’s here

please note some operands differ from standard version.

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#442

What happened to the plans of merging the branches making a ‘super-ORCA’? I was really looking forward to it as the one in Maiden doesn’t really have all the bells and whistles of @Frederickk and @TanSaturn s branches.

#443

I think @Frederickk is on that. I know that one of my ops replaces one of the osc ops so I should change that. My testing has been good with my stuff merged in otherwise. I’m still interested to hear if anyone else is encountering the $ I mentioned in an earlier post. I need to retest that on my end too since there have been a few fates/Norns update since I last looked. I will be able to dedicate a bit more time to this on my upcoming vacation as well.

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#444

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help out with testing. Would love to be able to offer on coding but my lua is extremely basic. I’ll check the $ tomorrow (stock Norns/latest FW. I will also have a shield end of the week to cross test on. Is it your branch or all branches that might have an issue with $?

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#445

New to norns and not sure this is the right place to ask; I am using a norns shield to run Orca…the script seems to run fine, but the USB keyboard isn’t producing any input. Matron says:

hid added: 7 Wired USB Keyboard

when I plug in, but no key press seems to register. I can move the little hero around with the encoders, but nothing from the QWERTY. I have been into the parameters and didn’t see any likely candidates, but maybe I missed something. Also tried a few different USB keebs with the same result.

Anyone have any advice?

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#446

Sometimes it happens to me too in my standard norns.
Surf to the menu Device->HID, probably you’ll find two o three keyboard connected. Delete them setting “none”, and add just one of them. If not working, delete it and add another one and again until you find the correct setting for your keyboard.

#447

Thank you! I will give that a try this evening.

#448

“Super Orca” is in progress, I’ll reinstate the OSC functionality and share the test branch with any one that is willing/able to test. Hit me up with a DM.

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#449

Thanks again! Deleting/clearing all the keyboard entries by selecting ‘none’ for each and then selecting the one keyboard actually attached + a sleep did the trick.

For anyone coming across this in the future: for my situation the nap was necessary.

#450

Guys this might have been asked an is possibly a simple one - but how do I get exciting Orca projects onto the Norns? Ones I’ve written on the desktop.