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Orba by Artiphon | Portable synth, looper, and MIDI controller | iOS, Mac, Windows, PC | Bluetooth or USB MPE MIDI

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About this item

  • Make music anywhere with Orba by Artiphon, a handheld synth, looper, and MIDI controller
  • Loop Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead parts to create songs on the fly
  • Use Tilt, Shake, Bump, and other gestures to play the touch-sensitive pads and control Orba with the way you move
  • Play through the built-in speaker or use the ⅛” jack to connect headphones or amplifiers
  • Pair wirelessly to the Orba App to customize your instrument and save your creations



Product Description

Orba by Artiphon an instrument made for your hands
Synth, Looper, MIDI Controller

Play out of the box

Orba is a handheld music-maker, synth, looper, beatmaker, and MIDI controller that lets anyone make music immediately. With Orba’s integrated looper, you can layer Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead parts to create beats and songs on the fly. Play through the built-in speaker or use the ⅛” jack to connect headphones or amplifiers. Pair wirelessly with Bluetooth MIDI to the Orba app on your phone or desktop to customize your instrument. Change sounds, change key, and save your creations all in one app.

Three Ways To Play

Play Orba by Artiphon right out of the box

Play out of the box

Play immediately and out of the box!

Loop parts and play out loud with the built-in speaker or the 1/8 headphone jack and onboard looper. Make the perfect song by layering Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead parts. Orba lets you choose the way you want to play, combining touch and motion sensors in ways that capture even the most subtle gestures such as radiate, bump, vibrato, and more.

Play Orba by Artiphon with the Orba companion app for mobile (iOS & Android)

Connect to the Orba App

Wirelessly connect to the Orba companion app via Bluetooth and explore over ten built-in preset sounds ranging inspiration from 80s video games to the downtempo party sounds of tropical house and more. Select different tunings and keys to create the perfect melody. Save your songs for later and pick up right where you left off.

Play Orba by Artiphon with your favorite DAW (Ableton, Garageband, Logic and, more!

Bluetooth MIDI controller

Use Bluetooth MIDI or the provided USB cable to connect to your favorite music-making software (DAW). Whether on your computer, iOS, or Android device, Orba's MPE compatibility allows you to map all of Orba's gestures to whatever parameters you like, giving you full expressive control of your favorite software instruments.

Play with gestures
Orba by Artiphon

  • Handheld synth, looper, & MIDI controller
  • Loop Drum, Bass, Chord, & Lead parts to create songs
  • Use Tilt, Shake, Bump, & other gestures to play the touch-sensitive pads
  • Play through the built-in speaker or use the ⅛” jack
  • Pair wirelessly to the Orba App to customize your instrument & save your creations

Thomas Kaul
Reviewed in Germany on January 23, 2025
Top Gerät
PineApple Cat
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
Took us a bit to figure this out, but it's a fun gadget for my musical son
Damián Carrera
Reviewed in Spain on October 16, 2024
Mi hijo lleva años pidiendo una mesa y como no alcanzo a tanto, le regale esto. Esta encantado con el y lo lleva a todas partes para hacer "su musica". Genial como regalo si a la persona le gusta la musica.
Roberto Salum
Reviewed in Mexico on January 15, 2024
Mi hijo está feliz. Fácil de usar.
Melanie
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2023
We bought this for our 10 year old for Christmas. He LOVES playing with it. It's hard to get bored with because there is just so many sounds and beats and what not that you can make! It's easy to work and lots of fun.
DK
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023
I have a 10 yo son who loves to keep beats with music. Found this and got it for a Christmas present. He loves it. He uses it all the time. The sound versatility is awesome. The only thing that was a bummer was this didn’t come with instructions so we had to watch some YT videos but honestly it was better to watch them to read for something like this. Highly Recommend if your person is into music/making music/needs to fidget with something.
Jeremy K.
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2022
I'll outright say it, I'm currently learning to do sound design. I'm no master. But I'm also no fool and am often called a tech wunderkind. I had issues getting this working out of the box. I was not able to make any of the function buttons work (meaning holding the menu button and pressing a sound pad, you know...the thing it MUST do to work at all?). After a firmware update, several restarts, and many, many attempts, it suddenly started working perfectly. I'm not sure why, cause I'm not doing anything differently, but I'll take it.There's some ups and downs here. I will list them next, but first off I want to say that this is the Orba 1, not the 2. There's big, important differences. The software for the orba 1 is clunky and looks and operates like it was made cheaply in 2002. The Orba 2 software looks like it was made in 2020. The orba 1 can only have a couple of parallel tracks and they max at 30 seconds. The orba 2 can have many, many tracks of up to 5 minutes. There's other smaller differences like age of hardware, sound quality, bluetooth compatibility, and battery that are all better on the 2, but now on to the pros and cons:Pros:-Inexpensive-Easy to use-Simple design-Excellent entryway to learning to do sound design, DJ, or other EDM (electronic music) experience-tolerable battery-decent audio quality-fair bit of pre-made sounds you can use from the app-customizable-connects to PC/Mac/iOS software like Ableton, meaning you can actually use it to record or perform professionally if you wantedCons:-poor ability to properly execute functions-easy to accidentally spin the device and lose which pad is which-less than professional quality sound samples-pretty bad when compared to the Orba 2-existing "instructions" are laughable and tell you basically nothing. You're on your own-pretty pathetic, sad looking and running software compared to the Orba 2 softwareMy biggest complaint is about making loops. To make a loop you hold the menu button (it's the "A" in the middle) and hit "REC". Not only do the combo buttons not often work, it's extremely hard to time it. You also will have a hard time knowing when your 30 seconds of recording is about to end. the LEDs give you a general idea of timing, but it's very imprecise and makes it very discouraging to use. Things get out of time and messy. Furthermore, it plays an adjustable metronome any time you record. It's nice, but DJs need a flawless sense of timing and the metronome is very hard to set right. When your 30 seconds of recording are up, it goes straight into recording the next 30 seconds. It doesn't stop or alert you, so you can easily go over time by accident and end up with this bizarre, awkwardly timed set of beats or notes that come and go out of nowhere. Getting the right sense of timing on when to stop a loop is by far the most important thing to learn and it's complicated by poor design and being a two-button process that throws off your timing. If you aren't flawless, you'll miss your mark AND change to a different set of sounds in the process without ever realizing it, totally screwing up your recording.Lastly, when it comes to recording, once you record a 30 second loop, it's over. There's no deleting individual loops. You delete all recordings or none. So if you're recording your 5th set of sounds on top of 4 existing loops and you screw up, you gotta start completely over. Good for practice, but highly impractical. A lot of this could have been solved by making the record button a separate, single button you just tap the second you're done.I'm still learning, but if I decide I like it, I'm returning it and ordering an Orba 2. I'll admit it taught me a fair bit about synths and loops, hence why I gave it an extra start instead of the 2 stars I wanna give it. It taught me that this will be harder than I expected. I certainly didn't expect it to be easy, but I was a professional musician for years and thought that'd help me out more.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2022
I bought this for my daughter who has cerebral palsy. I was excited to do the app and add options for her but it doesn't work in windows. They're aware because the directions explain "if you have issues installing in windows" except the "fix" they suggest is literally to uninstall and reinstall which results in the same failure everytime. Out of the box it's fantastic. I love it. Too bad I can't use it as intended or as advertised.
budskijr
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2022
Although this excellent little ORBA has some decent sounds(one lead patch in particular) you can load others via a smartphone app. But, where ORBA really shines is its MPE abilities. Supper fast midi response and using a MAX script for Abelton the asspects of the ORBA are easily map-able to any of your VST/midi synths/devices. You will be amazed by new musical expressions provide by the ORBA's unique form factor. I was going to get Korg's little kit synth and I am soooo very pleased that I selected the ORBA instead
Cliente
Reviewed in Italy on February 21, 2022
Collegato al pc e non riesco a fermarmi
GP
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2022
A unique gift!! I bought this by request for my son turning 30- he’s very techy & musically inclined. He we playing with it right out of the box! And everyone there wanted to take a turn! It made so many different sounds and even altered the sound with shaking it! A nice distraction if you want to play and make some fun sounds and felt like a cool mini drum/noise maker. He was easily figuring out how to use all the features.Glad I got it for him!
Ashish J.
Reviewed in India on August 24, 2021
Great product .. it’s my new midi friend