Artiphon Orba 2

Artiphon Orba 2 Product Details

Description

Orba 2 is the successor to Artiphon's award-winning Looper and Controller synthesizer. It has all the beloved features of the original, while offering numerous groundbreaking and long-awaited upgrades. Thanks to its new sample engine, any sound imaginable can be played expressively from now on. With the touch of a button in the Orba app, anything around you can be recorded and turned into an Orba preset: a bicycle bell, a singing bird, or your roommate's awesome voice can be played, looped, and shared as a musical melody.

Loops can be recorded directly on the device with Orba 2. Drums, bass, chord and lead can be layered to create unique songs. A quantize function matches musical phrases to the beat so that every moment fits perfectly into the groove. Since Orba 2 has significantly more memory than its predecessor, much longer songs can be created with up to 128 bars.

Orba 2's touch and motion sensors detect even the finest micro-movements. The improved ceramic-like playing surface responds simultaneously to the nine gestures: tap, press, beam, tilt, shake, rotate, vibrato, move, and bump. Each gesture can control the built-in synth engine or external MIDI music software. Thanks to its unprecedented expressive potential, no note is played the same way twice.

This also makes Orba 2 great for controlling MIDI-based software and hardware instruments (via USB-C or wirelessly via Bluetooth MIDI). Orba works with GarageBand, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, FL Studio, as well as any MIDI-compatible mobile app. Orba is also fully MPE compatible, the new standard for MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE), allowing for multiple independent note expressions.

Features:

• Artiphon - Orba 2
• Portable synthesizer, sampler, looper and MIDI controller
• 8 sensitive touchpads detect velocity, vibrato and pressure
• New: Sample engine with 2GB memory
• New: 24bit ADDA converter
• New: Quantization function
• New: Sample engine automatically cuts the sample and sets the pitch
• New: Songs with up to 128 bars length
• New: Improved headphone amplifier
• New: Improved amplifier for built-in speakers
• Multicolor LEDs
• Motion and position sensors to detect waving, tilting, shaking, etc.
• Gestures: tap, press, beam, tilt, shake, rotate, vibrato, move and bump
• Vibration motor for direct feedback
• Onboard MIDI looper with 4 tracks
• 4-part polyphonic synthesizer with subtractive and physical modeling synths and 10 voices
• MPE MIDI support
• Bluetooth LE MIDI
• Orba app for managing songs, loops, samples and presets
• USB-C port (USB 2.0 Class Compliant Audio/MIDI)
• Headphone/Line Out 3.5mm stereo jack
• Volume +/- button
• Power/BlueTooth button
• Built-in 1250 mAh Li-Po battery for approx. 4 hrs. continuous operation
• Built-in speaker with 3 watts of music power
• USB-C-A cable included
• Dimensions: Diameter 81 mm; Height 48.5 mm
• Weight: 158 grams