Artiphon

Wow - great work, thanks!

@ Rpneal, Great walk through there. Neat how you can use the pads of the Orba as key press' and as a sequencer, such as the riff in the demo. So you can use any MIDI controller to create your own patches, time to reshuffle my cabling and get the keyboard to talk to the OrbaSynth.

Thanks for sharing.

Yes, free is always good… Presumably you're already using Surge? If I was a new Orba user on a non-zero budget ROLI Studio would be top of my list next time it's on sale; the quality and quantity of sounds is just nuts, plus you get a discounted upgrade to Equator 2 (the crème de la crème of MPE synths).

I have not checked out ROLI. I'll do that now, thank you. 

Great job guys. This is a huge step in the right direction and exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see when I clicked on today. 
Keep up the great work! :) and thank you!!!

Yeah The only problem with that is that I don't just have one daw I'd have to be using and the money starts adding up on that pretty quickly as well. Although I will probably in the end have to go that route. What's the best MIDI mapping for windows that you know of if I may ask?

Astute observation to be sure. My expertise is fielded in training animals to do specific things in specific areas of work so as you can imagine, my knowledge on devices such as these is most assuredly limited to what I have on hand and mostly from my constant tinkering.  It is looking as though I will be veering away from the Orba as my other midi devices are a bit more open source. Although I will be using this as it does feel a niche of my offline creativity, my endeavors look like they will need to be constrained to the devices I already put to use. Thank you for your help. Hopefully the circumstances will be more fortuitous at a later date when software has been developed further.    For now, it will remain a fantasy and a side piece of creative energy. 

It's funny how Artiphon markets the Orba as a portable music-making device, yet you need a phone and now also a computer to make it somewhat usable.

Unfortunately not. As has been covered elsewhere in this forum, samples require much more memory than synth patch and MIDI data, so there's no prospect of being able to host samples with the current Orba hardware. The internal synth is a little miracle, though, so I don't myself miss the ability to work with onboard samples; that's precisely the kind of area where the Orba comes into its own as a controller for third-party soundware.

[Apologies to anyone in this thread who gets this e-mailed to them twice; maybe one day Freshdesk will implement an edit button, or I'll learn to type properly… Hold no breaths.]

Thanks! I think I'm still not quite seeing why it would be useful to have sample-playing software on the Orba if the samples themselves are on desktop, so you'd have to connect it to desktop anyway and so might as well use one of the many free third-party sampler players already out there. The point about having the synth engine on the device is that you can use the Orba in standalone, which you wouldn't be able to with samples. But I realise I may be misunderstanding what you're wanting to do.

The problem is money for me. The ipad I use is borrowed. I probably will break down and get a mac at some point. I just hate paying a premium price for an inferior hardware. And I'm sure what I'm trying to do is most likely impossible after a certain point. I will try to give a quick albeit most likely inaccurate description of the full setup.  

 I have an ARQ ZOOM, a midi controller/DJ station, Boss looper and Alesis strike pad as well as a few others but those are my main go tos. What I am ultimately trying to do is make it so that I can create live content that has the last 10 seconds of whatever I'm doing automatically recorded and ready to be sent and used instantly by the DJ controller, ARQ and Alesis as well as the Orba.  The problem lies in having a central hub where all of those things are able to be done. Since I can do those things individually on each unit, having them all in a central area on the PC would be the real time saver. 

I'm looking at spending a few hundred bucks to get the software, but I am a very cheap person lol. If I can find a way to do it for free, I would of course rather do that. 

Can you use the Orba Synh with the sampled sounds from Orba 2?