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Orca
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Orca

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One recent favorite of these mentioned in the article is ORCA [1], which is really an incredible little thing. It is essentially a live coding environment for generating MIDI…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2019-01-12 01:17:23 UTC to 2026-02-05 22:41:47 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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eggy·Jul 25, 2019
Or not, since if something fails you have to ship it to TE and pay them IIRC $125 to look at it. I bought and own an OP-1, that still works great, however, the sequence you execute on boot up to get numbered list of options, such as update firmware, or factory reset cannot be reached. So now I am stuck with the last time I upgraded the firmware, and I can't get it back to the original state, so I can mess around with it again. I don't know, but to spend $800 on a synth, and have to ship it to Sweden, and pay that large a fee to simply look at it is a bit much. I then tried to simply buy a new board, so I could pop it in and be done, but they were sold out! I am sticking with Orca [1] and Extempore [2] for now. [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://github.com/digego/extempore
In Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
nonbirithm·Jul 6, 2019
100rabbits[0] is a similar project. The same people, DeVine du Linvega/Rekka Bell, also created the Orca livecoding environment[1][2] a while ago. They also do a lot of general webdesign projects/music production (Linvega, as Aliceffekt)/worldbuilding[3]. A lot of it comes out of their living environment on a sailboat. [0] https://100r.co [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118951 [3] https://wiki.xxiivv.com
In Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)
angleofrepose·Feb 8, 2019
Orca is just one piece of the world that this guy has been building at https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#home He's got a suite of tools: Left, Dotgrid, Ronin, Marabu (text, graphics, super-graphics, audio). Then a logging/personal wiki setup that I think is fascinating: Nataniev, Horaire, Oscean. Which goes all the way down to his own database formats and time format. The philosophy and aesthetic of his work is awesome in the completeness of associated art and the connection between the build-up of his own software ecosystem. I've been following xxiivv for a while, and it's always changing and always inspiring. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on his system and would be happy to talk more about it! For example, Orca, featured here, used to be Pico which was a sort of playground environment like Orca but before it was the audio playground it is n
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ow. I'm not sure this is the best commit to pick out, but I just wanted to share how active he is on his software projects, and that environments really are a theme for him. https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca/tree/8cd3827fb6e01005... He's built a synthetic human language: Lietal, and his partner has a recipe sharing and cooking exploration site at grimgrains. Which also shares a unique personal aesthetic. They also live on a boat (see Pino). I am personally most interested in Ronin (under tools). It explains itself as a cross between vim and Photoshop, and though it is in a semi-broken state now, I had a great afternoon hacking on it playing around with pens and magnet mode. I play around a lot with processing and p5, and love to build generative style systems like Casey Reas shows off in his Compendium [1]. I see Ronin as an example next step towards creating an environment in which to mess with these things, rather than my standard of playing around in vim, and running it with each new tweak. Edit: at a computer now, so links for some of the above: - https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#tools - https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#nataniev - https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#lietal - https://grimgrains.com/#home [1]http://reas.com/compendium_text/ [1]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9h469--G5OwOGVfVmUxZUQ5VzA...
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