A browser control surface for the Artiphon Orba. Plug the Orba in over USB, or connect over Bluetooth, and drive everything the official app used to: instruments and presets, per-part mix (volume, reverb, delay), tempo, key and scale, quantize. Plus a built-in looper and a piano-roll note editor.
Live: https://holofermes.github.io/orba-console/
Open it in a Chromium browser.
The looper, live. Four tracks at different loop lengths (4, 8, 16, and 16 beats) play together as one polymeter groove, driven here from a phone.
 Note editor Draw, move, and resize notes on a piano roll, with grid snap, box-select, undo, and a movable loop window. |
 Instrument & FX Choose a preset for each part and set its volume, reverb, and delay, all kept in sync with the device. |
 Controller routing Point each USB MIDI controller at its own Orba part, and set the device's MIDI mode and pitch-bend range. |
 Key & scale Set the Orba's root and scale. |
 Songs & presets Load any of the factory songs, or save and recall your own snapshots. |
- Per-part instrument and preset switching, mix, tempo, key and scale, and quantize, with live two way device sync
- A browser looper that records external MIDI controllers into per track loops (the Orba's own looper only records the Orba itself), with polymeter and movable loop windows
- A piano-roll note editor with snap, marquee select, and undo
- An optional key-mapping layer for a hardware controller
The protocol is its own project: orba-protocol, a spec plus reference libraries. The optional DOIO KB16 controller firmware is orba-doio.