Orca. Now for something completely different

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Want to give your “Inner Weird Person” some fun? This has got to be one of the strangest music producing apps I’ve ever run across and it’s a hoot.

Orca: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca which runs using javascript or this one:
https://github.com/hundredrabbits/orca-c#raspberry-pi which is coded in C.

I’ve used the C based one and it works a treat. Raspberry Pi’s are ARM based but I compiled it without any changes or problems on my x_86_64 linux system. The C version is ncurses-based meaning you don’t even need a GUI, all text.

Weird to learn but fun to mess around with.

Cheers and stay well.

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is there a video demonstration? it’s always easier to grasp the context thru 1 minute video? :stuck_out_tongue:
looks awesome to me, since i’m all about tmux & vim & cli. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Take a look through here. There are some longer demos and tutorials hosted by YouTube. The thread is fairly active with friendly folks too. :slight_smile: https://llllllll.co/t/orca-livecoding-tool/17689

since i’m all about tmux & vim & cli.

Yeah, I’m pretty old school myself. Thinking about using tmux and doing an entire production rig using CLI just for the hell of it. :slight_smile:

Cheers and be well.

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ORCA is super cool . I made this using ORCA + Renoise
Kind of generative patches controlling Spitfire Labs instruments in renoise.

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Is that instrument per midi channel on the renoise side?
Or OSC?
https://youtu.be/GTNNNIn_gJs