Artiphon

The old forum, from 2016 to the Orba release in July 2020, is still accessible in a browsable and searchable archived form at https://community.artiphon.com/, and is still well worth checking out for Instrument 1 tips and ideas. I learned a huge amount from it, and you may find that a question you're chasing about the Instrument 1 has already been answered there.

Yes, there are quite a few Instrument 1 users here who backed the Orba because of it, and it's still pretty much my favourite thing ever. The old Artiphon forum archived at the link above above captures a lot of users' experiences with it, and is worth poking around in to get a sense of what it can do. I use it mainly as a kind of Seaboard for guitarists, using a touch-sensitive guitar fingerboard to do what keyboard MPE controllers do with their more traditionally synth-like playing surfaces, but a lot of people like to play it more like a physical guitar, and it also works very nicely in an Orba-style pad mode. The lack of Bluetooth and onboard sounds is a limitation for some, and it doesn't have all the dimensions of expression that the Orba now addresses, but it's an instrument you can play existing tunes on with the kinds of multidimensional expression the Orba is so brilliant at, and the rubber surface is more haptic and tactile than the capacitative pads of the Orba. No Android app, though!