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Orca

Just learned about Orca today from a post I saw on antenna and it is so fucking cool.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/orca

The post

I haven't got too much time to play around with it other than following some tutorials and looking through the documentation. I have it set up to output MIDI to Analog Lab V (Cool Arturia software that came with my keyboard) which was enough to get started.

Here's a link to the tutorial I followed (if you're doing MIDI, update `;`s to `:` and make sure your MIDI output is set up correctly).

https://patchstorage.com/tutorial/orca-tutorial-using-pilot/

Just a side-note, I'm on OSX right now and so the only way to install was by building first. The directions they give for building are largely what I did, but there were two additional steps that might be worth mentioning in case anyone else follows along.

First, I needed to install the dependencies for the project via homebrew:

`brew install ncurses portmidi`

Then, maybe because something is set weird on my version of `git`, I needed to run `dos2unix` on the `tool` script before I could run it. That's probably just something I set a long time ago because I work mostly with people on Windows.

Anyway, super cool. I'll post anything I come up with even if it sucks.