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ORCA

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Orca is an Esoteric Programming Language and live-coding environment for musical experimentation. In Orca, each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • CA flagCanada

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Synthesizer
  2.  Modular System
  3.  Real-time processing

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  • music-synthesizer
  • interactive
  • graphics
  • music-programming

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    researcher2312 added ORCA as alternative to TunePad
    3 months ago
  • lyserandrea liked ORCA
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ORCA information

  • Developed by

    CA flagHundred Rabbits
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    36 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Audio & Music

GitHub repository

  •  4,701 Stars
  •  232 Forks
  •  38 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about ORCA, and it has gotten 5 likes

ORCA was added to AlternativeTo by David on May 8, 2019 and this page was last updated May 8, 2019. ORCA is sometimes referred to as Hundredrabbits Orca.

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nmd91
Nov 4, 2023
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… appears as if to have been influenced in concept by the about 1986 IBM PC and MPU-401 MIDI sequencer software »Music Box« by programmer John Dunn, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dunn_%28software_developer%29 , here to remember too — pardon me for this note. Kind regards, except to vulgar net stalkers mine (disgust)//

What is ORCA?

Orca is an Esoteric Programming Language and live-coding environment for musical experimentation. In Orca, each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.

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