Learn ORCΛ Livecoding ~ IN DEPTH TUTORIAL (Pt. 1)

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In this video I will show you how to use ORCA livecoding software. We will cover everything from connecting your midi device to creating several different types of sequencers. Grab you favorite groovebox and lets make some music! Part 2: Building a tracker! • Learn ORCΛ Livecoding ...
ORCA does not make any sounds, ORCA is a music sequencer. It works with MIDI, UDP, and OSC messages.
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From Hundredrabbits:
Orca is an esoteric programming language designed to quickly create procedural sequencers, in which every letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
This application is not a synthesizer, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio/visual interfaces, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider.
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@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to subscribe and join the discord! discord.gg/KUSBH9h Lessons and contact: ezbot.live Support this channel by joining the Patreon : www.patreon.com/ezbot Support this channel by visiting my hardware electronic music store: www.modbang.com Part 2 -> Building a tracker! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLFxndtn05-beY0.html&ab_channel=EZBOT AND just to be clear because I somehow edited the part out: * = Bang/Trigger. ORCA does not make sound, it is only a sequencer.

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@David Harmon base 36 0-9 a-z

@imlxh7126 3 жыл бұрын

this is just if dwarf fortress was a sequencer

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! :)

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

But it’s actually way easier than DF, that game is impossible

@James-wd9ib 10 ай бұрын

ORCA is the most bizarre and fascinating sequencer I have ever seen To the people making music on it, "You're a wizard, Harry"

@goblinpiper 3 жыл бұрын

You have such a relaxing and engaging presentation style! Orca seems really intimidating from the outside but this made me really excited to get stuck in and play :)

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh thanks so much, head over to the discord if ya wanna hang with us!

@mrCharlesG 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I stuck through this tutorial and didn't get distracted like a squirrel by my usual hardware gas. This really has opened up a whole new workflow for me to explore. wow thanks!

@jeffprowten6682 2 жыл бұрын

Man. Fantastic tutorial. SO helpful for understanding this elusive program

@liqwidbpm 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for more of these! Great stuff!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Ya! Thank you!

@GuitarGod666 2 жыл бұрын

3 mins into the video, and I am making cool sounds already -- great tutorial. Can't wait to see what happens when I watch the rest of the video!

@unfinishededits2744 3 жыл бұрын

Super kind, humble and generous of you! This is so helpful, thank you!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jandmath 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic - total fun :-) Already hoping for this to (perhaps) run on a Raspberry Pi. Also, props for your very calm and easily understandable presentation!

@kriskeogh7809 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial. Clear, concise, full of essential info. Much respect!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@adrienmelchior8413 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ! You got me into orca with your opz vid and now I'm crazy about it :) it's really interesting to see how others use it, like how you use bangs within a T operator. I hope you'll continue this serie with a part 2 !

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

I will indeed get into some more complex stuff in tutorial 2!

@theoliviaarchives4794 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. When computer programming and music meet.

@akaleri 4 жыл бұрын

Really great seeing some orca commands here as well. I really dig the tempo changes.

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@arp_78_62 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you EZBOT this has been so useful in helping me get started with ORCA!

@EZBOT_ 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@dabadabe1807 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the comprehensive tutorial ❤ I really appreciate it!

@EZBOT_ 11 ай бұрын

No problem!

@federico8918 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome man orca is really fun to mess around, keep it up!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a blast isn't it?! Thank you :)

@syncdestroyer 4 жыл бұрын

Had no idea you could mute things like that! Wow. Thank you for this tutorial. I've been messing with Orca for a couple days now and it's good to see more actual tutorials like this and Allieway Audio!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

You welcome, more to come! I started using ORCA around the same time Allieway made that video, I remember it very well!

@SeanPorio 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Just downloaded this thing and was a huge help, thank you!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome :)

@aaiieenn 2 жыл бұрын

Finally a good tutorial! I've been looking for some sort of tutorial after seeing people use the language with Monome Norns.

@EZBOT_ 2 жыл бұрын

I got you!

@CatFish107 2 жыл бұрын

I'll drop you a little engagement here to let you know how I found this video. The algo recommended me a video on esolangs for some reason (I don't know much programming beyond how to make a CYOA in QBASIC), and the bit on Orca got me excited. Your video seemed like a good choice for learning how it works. I'm only about 5 and a half minutes into the video, but I'm understanding so far, and appreciate your delivery. Thanks for helping me learn!

@MalitzinCortesCONDESADE 3 жыл бұрын

God bless you ! This tutorial is life

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TTYLC 4 жыл бұрын

Ah cant wait for next one!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Soon! Thank you

@stephenmurphy8349 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff - thanks!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

No problem! Thanks for checking it out

@ayushhariname4943 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you EZBOT you are a saviour.

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@ayushhariname4943 4 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ hey I made this on vcv rack with Orca and your tutorial really made it work ! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pp57iblm2tibgY0.html

@randomizer 4 жыл бұрын

thanks for making this!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

No problem!

@joeyalgorithm5082 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very interesting!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@Rollur1234 7 ай бұрын

I made the random chord generator EZ ❤ Thanks man!!

@EZBOT_ 7 ай бұрын

That’s awesome, nice work!

@miketreanor8859 4 жыл бұрын

Duuuude. This is great.

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

@0x44Monad 10 ай бұрын

this is everything I wish I made, fucking sick thank you

@WilliamShinal 2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't expecting VirtualMidiSynth to work with this, but at least I'm cooking with gas.

@MassimilianoGallieri 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

@toitoitoy 4 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@Klocaine237 Жыл бұрын

Dore Alley 2022 Bangs hard as fuck

@howardanderson3061 4 жыл бұрын

I guess this is where it all begins....

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, let the games begin

@GiovanniAllegri 3 жыл бұрын

ORCA is amazing. I just started to play with it and it's really a joy. The only issue is the clock. If I sequnce the MIDI out inside my DAWs (Reaper or Bitwig) the MIDI notes are a bit accelerated. If I set both ORCA and the DAW to 120bpm, recorded MIDI events appear as if they were triggered at 120.5/120.6bpm, which prevents a perfect alignment with the other tracks in the DAW

@SteeveBjornson 2 жыл бұрын

have you synced the clock between the DAW and ORCA or are you just running each independently?

@GiovanniAllegri 2 жыл бұрын

@@SteeveBjornson using ORCA as the MIDI clock source I have some jitter. In general, with Web MIDI, I can get a stable clock only if I run a loop and check the timing against performance.now. But this is prohibtive in terms of performance.. I guess a really stable clock, based on setTimeout (even if from inside a worker as ORCA does) is impossible to achieve at the moment.

@SteeveBjornson 2 жыл бұрын

@@GiovanniAllegri how about reversing it and using your DAW's clock as the source? I'm curious if this might actually be an OS/communication issue...

@GiovanniAllegri 2 жыл бұрын

@@SteeveBjornson not much better. In this midi I recorded a sequence from ORCA (simply a D with a MIDI out with default duration) at 110bpm and 60bpm: drive.google.com/file/d/1uBblZwsoKooohodGoqd-zd6xHRj85hN0/view?usp=sharing. As you can see there's some jitter. I guess being on Widnows and havint to use the loopMIDI virtual ports add further dealys and hiccups.

@wasaby123 4 жыл бұрын

This is GRRREAT!! Thanks for sharing! I'm using my OP-1 here and I'm having troubles with changing the channels (the first number after the : I can only use 0) Could you give me a hint about what I could be doing wrong there? Other than that, this tool looks such a fun way to make music

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you on my Patreon!

@icosikaipent 4 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem with sunvox, were you able to solve it?

@kalubandali2241 3 жыл бұрын

So this is what the matrix looks like

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Blue pill please!

@saraphinaforman 3 ай бұрын

hey, do you know how to change the time signature? thanks so much!!!

@ruxiwang9571 3 жыл бұрын

that cmd+/ saved me....

@hahrhthuhrh3542 2 жыл бұрын

how do I make a note legato since the sustain is always a finite value

@EZBOT_ 2 жыл бұрын

You can set the decay to Z, that will be the longest decay available. Join the discord and ask this there, some pretty good ORCA users are hanging out in the discord channel

@ritikkaundal8787 3 жыл бұрын

GREAT just started learning this ,already having fun. Just can't figure out how to sync the clock of ableton and orca, as I'm sending the midi to ableton using loop midi. Would be great if you could help

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Join the discord! Links in the video, lots of talented Orca users there :)

@SakoMeowington 3 жыл бұрын

For midi channels 11-16, what would you have to put into the first box of the : object? Since the midi channel would take up 2 digits

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent question! You would use letters a-g a= 10 g=16

@NOlb-rq4qw 3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys! I'm pretty new around here and I have a question: Can I connect my Hercules DJ Control Inpulse 300 with Orca as a MIDI-device? Thanks for the great video!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ORCA sends MIDI messages to anything that can receive them. What would you want ORCA to do with a DJ mixer?

@NOlb-rq4qw 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ Hey! I have to be honest, i just kinda stumbled into all this ORCA stuff but I find that it can produce really great sounds. I have absolutely no idea how it works but I was eager to find out. I think my first perception was that ORCA could produce sounds on its own that could then be played on my controller for example. I just thought it could sound great mixed with other tracks 😅 But apparently ORCA can't produce sounds on its own and I don't think I have any other MIDI-devices... But thank you for your help!

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@NOlb-rq4qw there is a free program or pay what you like - called Pilot. Made by the same people and Orca can work with it directly via UDP. Which is just a setting you select in ORCA

@NOlb-rq4qw 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ thank you very much! I will try that :)

@HenricWallmark 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! Great work! I'm curious as to connect this to Renoise, any ideas? Cheers!

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

I have not used renoise but I imagine it's possible!

@HenricWallmark 4 жыл бұрын

EZBOT it was just a question of starting Renoise and choosing Renoise midi-in in both softwares :) looking greatly forward to your next orca tutorial!

@dlol. 3 жыл бұрын

@@HenricWallmark If you use a Loop Midi port you can do that! I hope you already found a solution tho lol

@HenricWallmark 3 жыл бұрын

@@dlol. i did find a way! now im struggling to connect orca to VCV rack though hehe. any tips?

@dlol. 3 жыл бұрын

@@HenricWallmark I think it still should still work with loopmidi! just make a port and connect orca t one end, and vcv to the other! it works for me :)

@spaceshine 4 жыл бұрын

I can't get my MIDI device to connect from my DAW to Orca, is there any step by step guide? I have loopmidi installed as well.

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

Join the discord, link is in the video description. I can help ya

@lickingyourselfisalwaysfun 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know how can i set my shortcuts up ? I'm having trouble with shift and "." for creating actions, when i press shift and "." bpm rises at the same time

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

not sure exactly what you mean :/

@TheWischmop 4 жыл бұрын

You could simply change the key mappings in the client.js file.

@lickingyourselfisalwaysfun 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheWischmop thank you sooo much man

@EZBOT_ 4 жыл бұрын

@@lickingyourselfisalwaysfun glad you got that figured out! I want sure what you were asking, my bad!

@lickingyourselfisalwaysfun 4 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ there is no problem, i just loved your huge tutorial and i'm waiting the next :)

@liamtilliam5866 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Im having issues and im getting no audio output from the program

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

I am glad you got it worked out!

@liamtilliam5866 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ Just another question, ((Sorry this is just reminding me of lsdj)) How would i link multiple instruments toi it, or seperate instruments?

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@liamtilliam5866 I would use separate midi channels is all. You want to have it trigger multiple hardware devices than you just set them each to separate channels and have ORCA trigger those channels. Remember 0 = 1 in Orca

@liamtilliam5866 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ OHHH okay thank yoouuu, Thats handy!

@Asiosky211 3 жыл бұрын

amazing tutorial. ive been having trouble saving and opening projects. seems to save fine but when i go to open nothing happens. anyone else encountered this problem?

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

Make sure your files are saved as .orca

@Asiosky211 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ Thank you! this has been messing with me for too long!

@alanp741 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question about the midi device to use: does it need to be an external instrument or is there a way to use one within the computer like a vst? It's just the only midi device i own is just a keyboard and it can't make sound on its own

@alanp741 2 жыл бұрын

Update i found a synthesizer that goes side to side. I just need to use a different operator bc it ain't midi

@EZBOT_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@alanp741 you can use MIDI with your computer as well, just download loopmidi for pc or create a virtual port on your Mac with the system software. It’s fairly easy to do

@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally 2 жыл бұрын

How do you do accidentals in orca??! There's not enough space to pass F# to it

@EZBOT_ 2 жыл бұрын

Uppercase and lowercase. You gotta use your sharps as flats.

@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally 2 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ nice, cheers

@sattesail9762 3 жыл бұрын

So i don't really know how to code, and this looked incredibly fascinating, so i decided to check it out.I downloaded loopmidi and set up that simple command, but no sound came out. I could see it on that volume meter thing, but i couldn't hear the sound. Why could that be?

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

What were you trying to trigger with loopmidi? This sounds like a non-orca issue and more of a sound source issue

@sattesail9762 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ oh. do you need some sort of external sound-making software? i don’t exactly own any free stuff I could use for Orca, nor do I really know how to set it up I just saw someone using loopmidi in their tutorial tutorials on Orca are hard to find

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@sattesail9762 orca is just a sequencer for a sound source, loopmidi connects you to software that makes sound. Otherwise orca will trigger hardware synthesizers. In the video I say I am triggering the OPZ, which is a synthesizer and drum machine

@sattesail9762 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ How do you get OP-z?

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@sattesail9762 from a music shop my friend. There are free options you can use with loop MIDI. Install Ableton or another DAW and connect the MIDI channels

@liamtilliam5866 3 жыл бұрын

NVM I GOT SOUND! idk how to set it to mulitple channels with different sounds

@three_iii9198 Жыл бұрын

do you NEED a midi device to make orca work, can I use a midi software in its stead? :((

@EZBOT_ Жыл бұрын

You can use software 100% just need something like Loopmidi so it can communicate

@tomnewitt6413 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully not being really dumb here but how do you save projects?

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

You select export in the file menu

@tomnewitt6413 3 жыл бұрын

@@EZBOT_ I had thought as much but then reimporting those files comes up empty? Great tutorial btw learning a lot

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomnewitt6413 they have to be ".orca" files when saved. so like "project.orca", not sure if this is your problem but that is usually the case for me. Also, you are not importing them, just open them under file.

@softsmoken 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never get this thing working...

@Vallee152 3 жыл бұрын

when I press ctrl . it says no output devices

@EZBOT_ 3 жыл бұрын

thats what it says when you have no midi devices connected. Try using the refresh midi devices command in the drop down menu. After that try using CTRL + PERIOD again a few times. If that doesn't work, restart your computer and try it again.