ORCA Semigenerative Jam
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2024
- My friend Benny and I were experimenting with partner live coding ORCA jams over Zoom. Kinda the perfect thing for quarantine jam sessions and we're about 400 miles apart on top of that. I took the bones from that jam spruced them up a little bit, dropped in some drums and tried a live session on my own. Here I have ORCA routing midi to Ableton with some simple effects. I'm new to both Ableton and ORCA so it's been a very good learning experience (aka: this took way longer than it should haha). I haven't found a workflow to trigger things in time easily so that's part of the reason this jam lasted so long, probably could have been closer to 6 mins if I knew what I was doing. I did a lot in Ableton but since I was just using my mouse you can tell there are a few slips and sections often run a little long since I'm searching for the damn buttons lol. I'm sure all that can be fixed with a little practice with ORCA's commands and a midi controller for Ableton knobs and such.
ORCA is a very peculiar sequencer but got to love that esoteric Terminal Matrix vibe. 👾🎶
@EZBOT taught me how to get the colors to fade which is very nice. I basically copied the patch in the vid here.
EZBOT ORCA + OP-Z Vid: • Livecoding the Teenage...
One of the best ORCA jams I've seen on UA-cam. I was vibin the whole way.
Damn that is a really nice compliment. Thank you so much! ❤️
Fantastic music. Amazing jam and skills! Thanks for sharing!
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Paul glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful.
That's very kind, thank you.
The whole East South Collision to block bangs is a pretty cool trick.
Thanks! Happened on it by accident and decided to make the error a feature
@@romineification yeah, me too, but I was actually dropping E's from a generator and the downward movement was blocking. East South blocking definitely looks cleaner.
Oh cool, I didn't know you could block one direction of traffic with another like that! Cool technique!
I would love to know what vst's you used for the sounds!
I used Ableton's free trial. Couldn't save anything so not really sure what instruments and effects I used other than the drums which were equivalent 808.
@@romineification Awesome! I'm guessing it was all ableton's stock instruments? like Operator and stuff?
@@howtoelectronicmusic4065 Exactly. I set up a side chain effect on the ambient instruments / reverb which is really doing most of the work
Hey, sorry, I'm not sure how to find help on this... but, how exactly is the color changing working?
I basically copied the code line for line in EZ-BOT's vid linked in the description. You can read it better in his vid for sure. If you DM I can dig up the file file for this patch and send you a download link.
@@romineification if you have it handy, it'd be cool to play with it. I just started a few days ago getting some cool stuff going. All of my screens are super ugly though with E's and S's flying everywhere with things just kinda randomly sprawled out on the grid. Need to get to the next level and make things that are much better organized. Have you tried sequencing external gear with Orca yet?
@@davearnold4426 I dropped it in here. LMK if you have any issues downloading. You'll have to route the midi if you want to use the musical elements but if you're just interested in the color changing you can basically just copy paste the code in the upper right onto anything. I haven't tried doing external gear yet but I want to!
mega.nz/file/4ARglDSD#pS258lzz_OtjudxGBBkbGTvQLnxMnJW1od3NFU1COBg
@@romineification Thanks Age!!
sweet!! i got the text color changing, but can't figure out how to change the background color? any ideas? cheers!
Whoa didn't even think of that! Lmk if you figure it out and I'll do the same ;)
@@romineification I've seen some people underlay images and video below the changing code - not sure if that's in post-production or not, but perhaps if your OS supports window transperancy you could try that + a solid-colored, clean desktop.
@@aidmuslims8150 That's a good idea. The more I play with this the more I realize I should probably just learn to code.
@@romineification what os are you using?
@@aidmuslims8150 Mac (Mojave)