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> where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. Anyone know what a 'bang' means in this context? Not sure if it's an Orca-spec
by briansteffens 5y ago
> where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
Anyone know what a 'bang' means in this context? Not sure if it's an Orca-specific thing or more general.
- Hemospectrum 5y agoIt seems like a general-purpose message that nodes can send to neighboring nodes, so they can be activated in response to input events, clock cycles, and so on. In other contexts you might call it a "pulse" or a "tick."
- piinbinary 5y agoIt means the ! character edit: at least, that's what I normally see it meaning. I'm also confused about what it means here
- Shared404 5y agoIt's Orca specific. A bang in this context triggers the character one coordinate down and the one coordinate right of the bang character - which is '*' - and deletes itself after one tick. I may have remembered some details wrong, it's been a while.
- harrylove 5y agoI'm not familiar with Orca but I am familiar with the use of bang in Max/MSP[0], in which it's used as a generic event trigger for attached objects. Objects receiving a bang message will execute their main method. The context feels similar here. [0] https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/tutorials/basicchapter02 https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/tutorials/basicchapter02
- sprkwd 5y agoA bang is normally a name for a !
- TOMDM 5y agoIn the case of ORCA a bang is an activation So a clock periodically emits a bang that can be used to trigger the synth for a simple example.