ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)
Allieway Audio4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
93K views · tutorial · evergreen · Uploaded 2019-01-16
Allieway Audio gives an informal introduction and live-coding demo of ORCA, a free esoteric programming environment for building procedural sequencers from Hundred Rabbits. It walks through the interface and how to make music with it.
HN commenters call it the best video overview of Orca, the explanation that makes the unusual interface click.
1:25:348 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
3:36elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)
Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
44:02Music Theory and White Supremacy
Adam Neely
24:46Painting a Character with Maths
Inigo Quilez
21:35Music Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
Tantacrul
41:12Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit
Ahoy
1:00:49The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
NDC Conferences
39:21Functional Composition - Chris Ford
ClojureTV
5 comments from Hacker News
YouTube user Allieway Audio has started posting a series of great tutorials and introductory videos for Orca: [VIDEO] [LINK] To give a bit of context the primary creator of this project has been essentially living off a sailboat for the past few years and has traveled some 28000km around the world in the process. More info at their site at [LINK] :)
There is an excellent overview of how to use the interface by a YouTube channel called Allieway Audio[0]. It was the explanation that made this software make sense for me personally. [0] [VIDEO]
+1 for Orca. Orca is live coding environment / procedural music playground. This video gives an overview of what it is. [VIDEO]
There is an excellent introductory tutorial to Orca by an artist that goes by Allieway Audio[0]. It is by far the best video overview of the system that I am aware of. [0] [VIDEO]
Love 100r! There aren't a ton of examples online, but their livecoding music software/language, ORCA, is a remarkable instrument. [LINK] I posted a clip to bsky a few weeks back: [LINK] And Allieway Audio made some great Youtube videos about ORCA too if people would like to learn how it works in more of a tutorial format: [VIDEO] (I love the Dwarf Fortress background for this video, it absolutely nails the vibe)