Artiphon

Hello world!

Tim_Sally

( The blind traveler/musician ) United States of America

Together Forever in Christ Jesus!

Joined together in marriage! By faith alone.

God only made one of you! 

https://youtu.be/xADkgG8U1sQ

 I was so excited with the purchase of my Orba, also ordered the ORBA protective sleeve, and carry case. But I don’t use the case very often. I’m so addicted to my  ORBA, that I take it to bed with me. I also went ahead and purchased the instrument 1, instrument 1 case and instrument 1 carry strap.

I can’t wait to learn all the features and experiment with all the instruments available. Anticipating the next firmware update.

BUG REPORT!
I do you have a very important comment, when I set the instrument one in guitar mode. The D major chord is out of tune. I HOPE they’ll improve this with a firmware update!

PS. I am the proud owner of the Orbe and the instrument 1

SALLY

@Moon - Yes you are right, this sucks.

And watch out, before you know it, a fellow buyer will explain to you that we have to stay positive because it is such a sympathetic small company that is doing its best in these difficult times. Or someone from Artiphon will tell you that there is actually no problem because the Orba works fine on some versions of IOS via a USB-cable. Sigh ...

Hey Kevin,

Great suggestion. The development team is taking this into consideration for a future update

BTW, the question: how many steps Orba's looper is? I.e. how long is the longest loop? Tnx!

Hi, I'm Lukas and I'm really looking forward to holding Orba in my hands. It's been a pleasure and a fantastic journey following the project through Kickstarter, reading all these great updates, watching video teasers and getting a first impression on what Orba can do.

Playing the drums, the piano and a wee bit of guitar I can't wait to add a whole new level of making music with that wonderful instrument that's coming our way.

Keep up the good work and thanks for all your effort at Artiphon!

Cheers,

Lukas

I have not ordered an Orba yet, but I had a question about the chord functionality.

-I read (I think on the FAQ page) that you can change the chords to be whatever you want, but I don't see a way to do that. Is it/will it be in the song editing menu in the app and/or computer program? If it is how does it work? If i find the chords to a song I like, can I load the chords for that song onto the Orba and save it as a song, then be able to come back to it later through the app?

The Orba seems like a really cool instrument, this is the only thing I have some trepidation on.

My Orba 2 arrived (finally) yesterday, I spent hours today going through the tutorials multiple times.  It just doesn’t do what the ads, videos, and tutorials say it’s supposed to do.  I’m very disappointed.  

I still keep getting notifications on this forum after repeatedly contacting Artiphon, asking them to delete my account. And still.. I'm an Orba1 sucker. I bought the Koolaid on Kickstarter. Whatever they promise, don't take it to the bank.. Since they seem to have difficulty deleting my account and unsubscribing me me from Forum updates, I decided I'd chime in my disappointment in this poor excuse for a company every time I get an E-mail. Here's to hoping they delete my acccount. Orba1 is a 100 dollar paper weight..

Peace out,

iamoneabe  

Hi all!

I'm a new user from Rome, Italy. I received Orba as a Xmas present and I like very much playing around with it, I really like the concept and the feeling it provides.

I also like that there's stuff to explore, like its usage as a controller for Logic Pro and creating new presets for the internal synth.

Here are some minor negative notes instead, I suppose it can always be useful to know the first impressions from newcomers:

• Like reported by others, the definition of "song" in the app is confusing, it makes you expect that when you load a "song" from the app you also get a demo sequence which showcases the loaded sounds. Justs a wrong naming IMHO, then you read the manual and understand that a song only loads sound presets for all 4 modes and some global settings. Then maybe they should have been named "global presets" or "globals" or similarly. But it's ok once you understand it.
• I was also confused by how the "change-octave-by-sliding" feature works: I expected that when holding A, pressing pad 8 and then sliding one pad up, I was moving one octave up with respect to the current setting, e.g. like pressing the usual "octave up" button on a standard controller. Instead pad 8 always represents the base octave; so if you already are playing two octaves up from the base setting, and you want to move one octave further up, you have to press pad 8 and then slide up THREE pads, which is not always an easy gesture. Anyway, as in the previous note, this is also ok when you understand how it works; though I still think the other way around would have been more user-friendly.
• The pitch change when I use the vibrato gesture is hardly noticeable, and it seems to me it's not enabled for many preset sounds.

Hi, I’m a kickstarter backer number 4320 in the US due to my Immense childlike excitement I am unable to “patiently” wait for my Orba. I’m positively twitching. I should be getting my shipping confirmation within the next week and I opted for the expedited shipping so I should have it a couple of weeks baring anymore unforeseen global calamities. Keeping an eye on social media for reports from the early arrivals. I’ll report anything new that happens 

Great explanation! Thanks!

I’ve seen one person in the comments section of the update page on the Orba kickstarter page that reports getting one on the 4th. This forum is surprisingly empty for this stage in the campaign?

The Android app is in beta, but you can access it via this link (courtesy of this other thread).