Innovative interface with velocity-sensitive controls and haptic feedback. Neat built-in sounds with the option to add your own. Light and portable. Gesture controls manipulate filters and effects in ...

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The Orba is mostly a musical curiosity, but a compelling one especially at the reasonable price of $100. But for its next version Artiphon is hoping to go beyond fidget toy and turn its little MPE ...

The original Orba was a curious little baseball-sized device that invited people who couldn’t play a triangle if they tried to somehow create beats, bops and bass lines. The success of the original — ...

The Orba 2 rocks the same palm-friendly dimensions as the original, at 3.14 inch diameter and 2 inches in height (7.9 x 5 cm), and features a similar-looking spread of eight capacitive sensing pads up ...

Guitars? Drums? Synths? Nah. Unless you’ve comedy trousers, you won’t be able to pull one of those from your pocket the second a top-ten hit enters your brain. But then a phone doesn’t cut it either, ...

Artiphon – maker of the Orba – has revealed its sequel – the Orba 2. Orba is a small, handheld music making device that almost defies description, and the Orba 2 piles on new features to make it even ...

I would love to see more companies like Artiphon in the world. Hardware startups with clever ideas and a knack for bringing them to market. Back in November 2020, I ...

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