ORCA Semigenerative Jam

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.

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