#506

Hmm… that’s an interesting error. I haven’t seen that one before. Which engine were you using? What are the steps I could take to try and reproduce the error?

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#507

i was using passersby. can’t really tell the exact steps, it was at the end of a long session. i was playing with 4-5 polyphony, passersby only (no midi or otherwise) and changing a lot of synth parameters back and forth. i’ll try re-installing orca and see if that solves the problem. right now norns freezes everytime i load orca : )

#508

This could be an issue with the Passersby engine. @swhic was having nearly the same issue, albeit not with Orca. I wonder if @markeats has seen this before?

I’ll keep looking around to in the Orca codebase and also try to replicate the error myself. Let me know if you get the issue again, and/or with another engine.

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#509

FWIW, that warning isn’t normally an issue

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#510

I’ve noticed the same issue for the Timber engine, something up with the level and position parameters. In particular, when you go into the Edit menu, the Level parameter seems to be stuck at -4.0dB? If I tweak it sometimes I can get it to change, but it snaps back there weirdly.

Otherwise loving the Norns version of Orca! In addition to access to a bunch of great onboard synths and samplers - and softcut! - I really think the Norns-only operators are very powerful - cc in, grid, and crow for cv!

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#511

here’s a thing, with the random operator on DevOrca, you have the ability to specify a range but currently inputting capital letters (whole notes) creates havoc as R tries to use them as operators. it seems like maybe this might be useful in some instances, but since some operators, like the midi op, will take whatever you throw at it and convert a capital letter to its note equivalent, maybe it’s inconsistent? I feel like there’s an idealogical line there to be crossed where some operators pass operators and some don’t.

#512

Sorry not really enough to go on here – if you can repro then let me know and I can take a look.

#513

hopefully posting these DevOrca irregularities here is ok. LMK if somewhere else is better.

this is an example with C cycling T, I am trying to get even sequential movement through the T. you can see that given a upper boundary of 4, it spends the 0 and 1 at the first position and then only gets to the third position. given an upper boundary of 5, it gets to the fourth position but still spends the 0 and 1 at the first position, making for an uneven count.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJKwpvaFXmy/?igshid=1qs3qh6sgclaq

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#514

i’m on deep waters here, but i think it’s related to what was addressed in the main orca thread concerning norns version counting from 1 rather than 0. this supposedly have been fixed in the new 1.4+ version, but i also experienced the same issue even in the newest version…

i looked up the code mentioned in the linked post above (row 14 in dust/code/orca/lib/library/c.lua), and the “+ 1” wasn’t there. i added it, slept norns and loaded orca – same behaviour. removed “+ 1” again, slept norns and reloaded orca – then it worked the way i wanted to all of a sudden! no idea exactly why, but you could give it a spin.

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#515

@2197 @fourhoarder @easterner I’ll tuck into these bugs a bit deeper over the next week or so. Timber issue I feel confident in resolving easily, the 0 v. 1 issue I’ll need to investigate, but the SC error is a puzzler. Stay tuned for updates.

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#516

Hi,
is this last update available on maiden? I’ve updated from maiden, but I don’t see any change on my installed orca.

#517

it shows up as a different program in the Maiden library, Dev Orca.

#518

I didn’t see in my maiden, Do I must change config in somewhere?

#519

probably need to do a library refresh on maiden, there’s one for both the engine section and the apps.

#520

this may be a dumb question but how do I connect a computer keyboard to norns for orca?

#521

Plug a key board into a USB slot and then navigate on your Norns into system> Devices>HID and then make sure your keyboard is set as device number one.

see Connect in the docs, control + clock - docs

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#522

my Fates had the keyboard show up as a few different keyboards in the HID menu, which I then had to delete and some reboots were necessary of course, but now the generic keyboard I found on the street is quite happy.

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#523

hey friends,

I am very new to everything norns and orca so bare with me :slight_smile:

is there a way to use Orca on norns as a standalone script using samples on norns? I don’t have a midi adapter yet to use orca with a synth so I wanted to try it with just samples.

thank you for any help!

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#524

yep, it’s a major advantage of Norns orca that it is so easy to use samples. you want to install the Timber engine and use the ‘ operator. see the first post of this thread for operators specific to Norns, it has the options for the Timber operator. selection of samples is in the Params menu.

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#525

thank you for the help friend! I really appreciate it

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