Hi Ben, I’ll try GLUE, looking cool!
I’ve sent a private message about another module, however.
Thanks in advance!
cable labels ! 
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…also “impatient” about GLUE vs. cable labels, and the most “important”, your new AHAB, even I don’t understand the “ORCA concept”, probably I’m too old - 62 - or surely because I’m “a frog eater”. 
(joke x 1000, not serious).
The ORCA concept:
It outputs MIDI notes and triggers. It consists of a simple grid of cells, like a spreadsheet. In those cells you write plain ASCII characters. Each of the allowed characters has a special meaning and does a particular thing. With those characters you construct small or large blocks of functionality, a bit like a modular system. That functionality can be producing a pulse/trigger or to produce a note/pitch. So by combining things you can make trigger sequencers, note sequencers, your imagination is the limit. You could look at it like a “sequencer construction kit”, where the building blocks are quite simple, but the result can be arbitrarily complex. The documentation for ORCA is honestly not great, so watching some YouTube videos might also be an idea. I have a playlist here:
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Thanks Lars, it’s a kind of mix between “Turing Machine” and “Game of Life” (not exactly identical, I mean “more or less”). Or perhaps a kind of “tracker”.
I’ll watch again this video (these videos, is a playlist), perhaps it will be more clear in my mind.
EDIT: I’ll watch other videos, first will be in French language, before watching English videos… Seems to be a “complex” language, but powerful.
Official software I’ve found for is as standalone (for Windows x64), it looks as “antique MS-DOS” or Commodore 64 software (lol).
Excited to discover the stuff made by Ben, stoermelder’s PackOne plugin is excellent!
Thanks, I heard ORCA from some video but didn’t know where to go forward from that, now I’ve got a starting point to take a look later and learn how it works… course I gotta wait for the new module to hit the library so it doesn’t constantly nag for “update”
Hi everybody !
I use Transit a lot, I love it.
Most of the time I use it for slow morphing between slightly different timbres in drone pieces, and I would really love for the maximum fade time to be a lot longer.
@stoermelder Is it something that you would consider ? Is anyone else interested in that ? Or do you have a workaround ?
Anyway great module, I love it, thank you for all your work !
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Not quite the same thing, but you could set the Port CV mode to phase and make the transition as long as you want.
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Yes, it is indeed a good workaround, it is not exactly the same but when I think about the order in which I want to play the presets before setting them it works.
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I just removed the clamping for the fade CV input. This means, with the fader at max, you can increase the time even more with the CV input. As the fade time responds exponentially, you get really long fade time now with fader at max + 10V CV.
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Oh thank you !!! That is the perfect solution…
Hi there,
I’ve been learning the basics of Orca thanks to this post and I’m loving it. I’m currently testing the VCV Rack module, but I’ve run into an issue regarding MIDI note behavior.
When I trigger a MIDI note (e.g., :04C94) using a Delay operator (D), if the note duration matches or is a multiple of the delay interval (e.g., .D4), the note fails to sound.
After checking the MIDI log with the MIDI-MON module, I noticed that within the same timestamp, the ‘note off’ from the previous note arrives AFTER the ‘note on’ of the new note, effectively killing the voice immediately.
When testing the standalone Orca software sending MIDI to VCV, the behavior is the opposite: the note continues to sound because the ‘note on’ arrives last in the event queue.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or by design, but it makes using random note durations problematic; if a duration happens to coincide with the delay timing, the gate never triggers.
Hi, yes, you are right. This was a bug indeed, thanks for reporting! Fixed in the latest development build.
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When cv automating snapshots with 8Face I found an issue. All works well as long as the VCV window is open. As soon as I close it, the cv automation stops. It’s the same in Ableton (12.3) and Bitwig (6). I had the issue on Montery and Sonoma (updated yesterday) OS
Looks like Ahab is here in the library! I will need to catch up on my orca I was supposed to watch the playlist but I was sidetracked on my vacation… I might have time this weekend but considering I like to have space to work out while I hear the tutorial or instrument/effect/module walkthrough or demo I probably might wait till next week… there’s still some “homework” (ok that kinda made me gag a little calling it that) I have to catch up with in VCV cause there’s been a bunch of new modules I haven’t tried yet but I don’t need to be active to catch up with Ahab and the rest… heck a couple other new ones came too today