That Dwarf Fortress background is sweet AF.

@098765432qwertyuiop

4 жыл бұрын

withdraws from society...

Found your video right after installing ORCA and realizing that "Omg, This is incomprehensible! I need a tutorial for this." Then a hour later, I was jamming. Thanks a lot for that!!

Oh wow, wow. Thanks Allie for making this :)

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

No, thank you for your amazing softwares! You are very generous releasing such cool creations to the world, and I am really happy you like the video - I plan on doing some more freeform jams in ORCA soon (with explanation of course), and maybe a more complete demonstration too once I learn stuff more xD Keep up the amazing work! ^^

@DevineLuLinvega

5 жыл бұрын

Between two games of Dwarf Fortress huh?

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

@@DevineLuLinvega Of course, hehe! There should be a mod that lets you shoot giant E's and W's at your poor defenseless dwarfs, muahaha >:D Though, I suppose they'd have far more problems than that if their ascii world turned into an ORCA program - It'd probably make for some killer black midi though! :P

@dorelx3541

4 жыл бұрын

@@alliewayaudio9108 Or maybe dwarf fortress should have a MIDI Out...

don't take this down! it _is_ professional!

Thanks! Don't worry about it being informal, I liked it. It felt like I was hanging out with a friend and nerding out over cool shit together. :)

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I like that analogy, it's a nice vibe to go for :)

thanks for introducing me to this software! this is awesome. your channel is super underrated!!

What the hell, your supposedly "informal" video turns me from being scared of Orca and didn't have any idea into jamming with for weeks. You didn't bore us with theories instead giving a direct musical example that is tempting to be tried also. Thank you and bless you

Holy heck, thank you very much for creating this introductory video to ORCA, it's such a cool-looking program~ OUO

This is so amazing! Thanks for making this video, definitely want to try it now!

Thank you for this! Superbly explained and I'm so excited to start playing with it

thank you! i wouldn't have had so much fun playing around with orca if i hadn't seen your tutorials

this is very helpful, it’s exactly the tutorial I needed, awesome job friend!

Thanks a lot for this great introduction! You make ORCA very graspable and simple to get started with. I like that you try things out and adjust as you go along - it somehow actives a more engaged learning process, which is really helpful.

Thanks so much for this vid, it was the only one I could find that actually started with the basics, plus I really liked the way you explain things. Imma sub

This is an incredible introduction to Orca. 20 minutes and now I can jam out some fun sequencers. THANK YOU!

This looks like it can make absolutely beautiful patterns. Thank you for sharing

This is the best thing on the internet! Seeing the discovery and learning process is so disarming and delightful.

Thank you! You are so good at explaining complex stuff simply. thanks!

A sweet concept, thanks for showing it!

I'm so happy to have found this video! I've been seeing GIFs of this program on twitter and really, wanted to try it, thanks a bunch!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

No problem, happy it helped :)

Thank you for this tutorial Allie, just downloaded the software (and donated a tiny bit to support it) and this video is a really informative introduction! ORCA seems to be really interesting, looking forward to have some time free to make experiments...

Thanks for taking the time to show this off.

great video! looking forward to more of these

I don't normally comment on videos... but just wanted to leave my regards. This was super helpful in getting me started. This should be linked on their web page!

Very nice run through. Thank you.

thanks for this! this environment is wild, but I wasn't sure what I was seeing in the demos until yours.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to help! Hoping I didn't spoil the mystique too much :P

This was a huge help - thank you!

Thank you for this, it was extremely helpful and gave me a good starting point

Thanks for the concise info, I'm going to buy this immediately!

please keep this video up, this is super helpful!!!

Thank you very much for your video ! It was very useful for me to understand how orca works !

Thanks for the nice video. For the information of those learning and otherwise did not notice; Since the date of this video, F has been updated with input left and right (whereas in this video both inputs are on the right).

I need to get this now, you could so much its crazy

Thanks for leaving this up. I downloaded ORCA, looked at the "complete guide" on the github page, scratched my head, and bookmarked the tutorial video links. How wonderfully nerdy a generative tool! Gonna hook it up to SunVox first, because the one thing SunVox is missing (so far..) is a way to create structured random events.

Thank,you so much for this, brilliant! I’m hooked!🐴

Very soothing voice Allie! Thanks for the tutorial.

Hey, this was really neat! I had no clue this existed so thanks for showing this off. It reminds me of Pure Data / Max but in a text editor form, which is maybe better? That north/south/east/west thing is absolute genius. The fact that this only spits out MIDI makes a ton of sense, too - seems like it would allow you to combine this with other software/hardware really easily, which is very smart as well. Anyways, really nice video (you have a very pleasant voice) and I would definitely love to see more experiments!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! It's a super clever software, and there have been some recent exciting additions too! More vids are coming very soon :)

Wow, in a couple of minutes you managed to make me finally understand how this works. I thought ORCA was cool from the first time I've seen videos of it, but I wasn't quite sure how to make stuff work up until now. Tried reading the documentation, but it felt as minimal as the app itself. I really needed to see this stuff explained on examples to get a proper grasp on it. Already tried to hook it up to VCV rack and I can't wait to play around with ti more over the weekend! This is great. You are great. Thank you!

@melancholerik

5 жыл бұрын

Oh and I forgot to mention - you have such a pleasant voice! I could listen to you talk about literally anything. So soothing!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

@@melancholerik Thank you so much for the very kind words / compliments! I am really happy to introduce people to the fun world of livecoding, and be sure to stay tuned for my further ORCA vids (I'm working on a series covering every single letter in ORCA!). I also plan to make some vids on TidalCycles, another experimental livecoding environment, which will be lotsa fun :) And I'm glad somebody likes my voice, I hate it, haha :P

@jastaneim9252

2 жыл бұрын

ORCA is a programming language-as esoteric one, used to produce sound. Don't ask me how it works, I have no idea.

Wow, that was well explained! This definitely cemented that orca is not for me, but it seems like a cool thing for other people 😁 it's definitely interesting! Great video 👍

Great little tutorial. I bounced off it the first time, but this makes me want to go back and give it another shot. Thanks!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

No problem, keep at it, it's totally worth it :D

Thorough and clear, thank you!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it :)

Thank you so much, this was very helpful for starting with ORCA

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

No problem :)

This was really really helpful thanks!! :D

Wonderful video! Thank you for introducing me to Orca

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome :)

Hey, I really appreciate these videos. Got me immediately interested in trying this software. I hope you decide to pick it up again! I'm ready for the advance course!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy them! :) I'm going through a rough patch at the moment but hope to complete the alphabet series in the near future - stay tuned!

Excellent intro video! Thank you.

Incredibly helpful! would definately reccomend doing more tutorials!

Crazy how simple it is to get some really complex beats and melodies.

Incredibly useful

super informative, thank you!

Thank you, I really enjoyed watching the video! It helped me understand ORCA.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I am glad it was helpful and not confusing, hehe :)

orca is very very cool .. i really enjoy it

your voice is so soothing

Thanks!! I love your voice!

would love to learn more about this! this software speaks to the pure data part of my brain, and the tracker part of my brain in the most satisfying way

@DevineLuLinvega

5 жыл бұрын

It was inspired by both-

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I know right - it's super satisfying and minimal, makes me happy - planning to do more in-depth vids on it in the future :)

thank you, that was really useful. makes me want to try it out

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, and you should, it's tons of fun! :D

Congrats on the 10K views allieway :)

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I didn't expect this video to take off like it did, guess it means I should get off my butt and make more vids! Thanks for all your support/friendlyness, you guys are awesome :D

thanks for the discover ..... really good.

amazingly helpful

This is so cool. I was just looking into tidal cycles but this seems easier. :)

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Tidal isn't too hard (the hardest part is installing!) - I plan on making a video on Tidal soon too! :D

@torotumbo

5 жыл бұрын

some ppl sends midi to Tidal with ORCA so you could do both

this is so cool

My first comment on KZread so far: I would love to see more introductory videos and tutorials if you feel like it. Thank you very much for this video! You made me reinstall Dwarf Fortress also..

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I am really happy you liked it! I want to make more videos on ORCA, maybe even a little video on each function/letter would be fun to do soon, stay tuned :) I'm just glad the video wasn't a total failure despite it's impromptuness - and if it made you reinstall Dwarf Fortress then it was a major success, haha :D

@Nomo_Popo

5 жыл бұрын

@@alliewayaudio9108 I would gladly be a patreon subscriber if you did a video on each function, but only if you have fun making them

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nomo_Popo Oh wow! I'll need to think about that - not sure how I feel about Patreon, but I will mention in the description of future vids if it's something I end up trying. Either way I plan on making a video exploring each function because I think it will be fun to do, ehe :P

@Nomo_Popo

5 жыл бұрын

​@@alliewayaudio9108 Sweet :) Lookin forward to em! Thanks again 🤘

Thanks alot! Very useful!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

No problem, glad it helped! ^_^

Great video, thank you!

It sounds like you have a really good keyboard!

It may not be up to your standards, but it was very useful! I've had Orca sitting on my hdd waiting for me to get time to learn it and this has helped a lot. Thanks.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch - I wanna do more for sure now :)

So good! Thanks!

amazing. thank *YOU*

thanks for sharing. i have come in cold and this is a great place to launch from. cheers

Great Tutorial! More please :)

*Hope you're doing fine. Keep us posted!*

Thank you Ally!

this is a pretty cool tutorial!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

I'm happy you think so, more where that came from ^_^

Here is a fun fact: You can change the soundfont (basically, the way each instrument sounds like) with a program called VirtualMIDISynth. I highly advise people to check it out, if they don't have a MIDI Keyboard, synthesizer, or just wanna mess around with DOS music in games like DOOM.

@crnkmnky

Жыл бұрын

😯 That's a pretty good tip for people who want to get started with more sounds, but aren't ready to dive into audio workstations and virtual instruments. Other people mentioned using VCV Rack to make cool sounds, but that's a whole other rabbit hole. 😼

Thanks for this!

We're generating little easts... now that's something you don't hear everyday

The mic is fine, in my opinion.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I was worried about audio quality but I'm just glad people can understand me, haha :P

This was very educative thanks. I wish you would have shown what you set up in your sound programm that takes the midi input

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

This is a good point, thanks for the suggestions! The setup is honestly pretty boring for this vid though - just a simple plucky west coast patch with the synth Aalto on channel 1 (just a small modification of the default patch), and a sample pack of the TR-606 drum machine on channel 2. In future videos I'll go a lil more in depth on what is going on behind the scenes though :)

16:35 friendly correction: you say that "orca uses 36 bit" but what you actually mean is that "orca uses base 36". "base 36" means that you have 36 symbols for numbers (like our normal system is base 10) "36 bit" would typically mean that you have 36 bits to represent a number, which gets more complicated but generally means that you can represent numbers between 0 and 2^36 (in the case of unsigned integers). I think most viewers understood it correctly, but I just wanted to get the right terms out there :) thanks for the tutorial! it was super helpful

very helpful TY

thank you!!!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome ^^

Thank you for the video, please do keep it posted. Nice overview of the program / language. Do I need to find a computer from 1982?

Thank you!

thank you

Thank you so much. Also, informal just like this may be better! Might not be as fun if you 'straightened up and made it professional'. This totally works.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Nice! Informal is fun and less stressful anyways, because I don't have to restart the video if I don't get it perfect in one take, hehe :)

Kinda late to the party but thank you a lot for this video!

wow cool

Two things confusing to newbies seem to have changed since this video. It seems if you put a 1 in after the D operator it stops looping. And also A and B operators seem to have had clocks built in, but that has since been removed. So if you see old videos where the B operator seems to be mysteriously looping through a range with nothing above it, that behavior seems to have been removed.

@zumomoli8013

3 жыл бұрын

also U is now Euclidean sequencer not U-turn

Allie is possible that you share somewhere your text examples from Orca ? I started with it and find your lessons very enjoyable. I was just wondering if it's possible to copy and paste from a text repository somewhere :) Thanks, keep this series on, they are very cool!

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

That's a really good question! I don't have any copies of the patches I use in my videos sadly, but I'll consider doing that in the future - though I suppose it's better to learn by building the patch along with me, instead of copying and pasting it! Plus you can add your own twists that way :) By the way, if you download the "examples" file from the ORCA github, I created one of them, the shift register setup. Give it a try ^^

great :)

I think this just broke my brain.

greetings from Colombia, first thank you for sharing the knowledge, and install orca and put it to run but I still can not get it to sound, I use linux (linuxmint) I must do some previous configuration to start the sound.

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Oh no, I'm sorry you're having issues making ORCA work! I'm not a linux user, but you might wanna try reaching out to hundred rabbits (the creators of this software) on twitter (@hundredrabbits), they are very responsive! Also, I assume you know this, but just to make sure, ORCA doesn't make any sounds on it's own, it only sends MIDI messages, so you need to make sure it's connecting correctly via midi to whatever program you want it to control! Not sure how this works on linux but I'd definitely talk with @hundredrabbits! Sorry, I wish I could be more helpful, but I'm really glad you liked my videos, and I hope you're able to get ORCA working!

------ Toggle Guide cmd/ctrl + G ------ A add(a b): Outputs sum of inputs. B bounce(rate mod): Outputs values between inputs. C clock(rate mod): Outputs modulo of frame. D delay(rate mod): Bangs on modulo of frame. E east: Moves eastward, or bangs. F if(a b): Bangs if inputs are equal. G generator(x y len): Writes operands with offset. H halt: Halts southward operand. I increment(step mod): Increments southward operand. J jumper(val): Outputs northward operand. K konkat(len): Reads multiple variables. L loop(step len val): Moves eastward operands. M multiply(a b): Outputs product of inputs. N north: Moves Northward, or bangs. O read(x y read): Reads operand with offset. P push(len key val): Writes eastward operand. Q query(x y len): Reads operands with offset. R random(min max): Outputs random value. S south: Moves southward, or bangs. T track(key len val): Reads eastward operand. U uclid(step max): Bangs on Euclidean rhythm. V variable(write read): Reads and writes variable. W west: Moves westward, or bangs. X write(x y val): Writes operand with offset. Y jymper(val): Outputs westward operand. Z lerp(rate target): Transitions operand to input. * bang: Bangs neighboring operands. # comment: Halts a line. part of the readme file @ github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca/blob/master/README.md

Thanks a lot for this video, now how do I setup ORCA to play any sound I installed loopMIDI port but still hear no sound I don't have real MIDI hardware but would realy like to use ORCA through the speakers (I can play MIDI or XM or MOD files fine with OpenMPT so I guess I have some virtual MIDI then, just don't know how to hook ORCA to it) Thanks

hmm how do you get the 'U' operand to do that? Mine bangs on a euclidian rhythm

dam this is so geeky!

Nice intro! Thank you :) BTW, to find a midi device ctrl + .

Hi there. Very nice tutorials ... I hope there will come some more of this. I'm really interested in ORCA and maybe I will look like a total noob, but ... how does the BPM and the Frames relate to each other? I mean, how many frames are one beat ... or do I unterstand something fundamental totally wrong?

@alliewayaudio9108

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, glad you liked the tutorials! :D That's a great question, there are exactly 4 frames per "beat", though you can use various functions ("D", for example) to create all sorts of subdivisions of the frame rate, so you're not at all limited to "4/4" time divisions - the "bpm" unit is just for ease of use when adjusting the frame speed in a more musically familiar way. You can adjust BPM with the "" keys. Hope this helps!

@undawn1

5 жыл бұрын

Thanx ... that helped.

this is amazing! i am actually trying to get ORCA to work but for some reason i am getting no sound output. i have loopmidi installed and it is selected as my output but it isnt working. is there something i missed? running windows 10.

@crnkmnky

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever find a solution?

Thank you for this very important tutorial. May I ask you what did you type around 13:07 when you said "make it clocked"? I struggle to find a way to make that lower case 'x' occur just like you did.

@tiamat9874

4 жыл бұрын

can you elaborate, however, I believe you mean the Delay she placed 2 spaces above the lower case 'x' and the 2 which was on the right of the Delay (d)