@furiousgreencloud @paul @sejo

If you uxnemu orca.rom | some_program, you can intercept these I/O events and use them as you like :)

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/ansi_c.html

@neauoire @sejo @paul
thanks i didn't know about the / operator is there also a \ operator for input?

for:
$shim 1 | uxnemu orca.rom | shim 2
?

tho i know we use : for midi output.

would love to send or recv midi clock to orca-toy, im oddly invested in using orca.rom rather than the other versions, my inner idealist

(ps i know C and unix, just thought @sejo was talking about IPC (inter process communication, my mistake))

@furiousgreencloud @sejo @paul right now, orca will interpret any incoming byte as input, and 11, 12, 13, 14 as movements. I could store 127+ bytes and output them under a \ operator if that'll work for you?

@paul @sejo @neauoire ummm, i'm not sure this is a good design: conflating a *human* interface and a machine interface, because all the work you do accommodate the humanness in a UI becomes unnecessary impediments (for example a 2D space) when your trying to machine to machine communication. Points for interoperability tho.

@paul @neauoire @sejo

no action required.

1/3 it's really cool how you can send an, N,S,E or W to orca which creates 4 channels of bangs, which would be nice to come from 1 place that a \ operator would create. So A-Z,a-z,0-9 | 10000000b could go there. But we don't need
an operator for this just a consistent starting cursor position which we have.

@paul @sejo @neauoire

2/3 Looking at the ascii and midi specs and thinking about what a 'sequencer' should take as input leads me to think about start stop and clock being way more useful. There are many low bytes for this kinda thing. This is likely the most important use case.

@sejo @neauoire @paul

3/3 looking at terminal escape codes Thinking about what orca is, maybe your 1st intuition is correct orca is the destination of keyboard input device, so it should respond to key presses and escape codes, like a terminal emulator. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

@furiousgreencloud @sejo @paul would you like to spec out a few low-byte APIs that we could use for like play/pause, bpm changes, etc?

@paul @neauoire @sejo hell yes.

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