Hardware Controls
Volume Button Increase and decrease the volume of Orba's onboard speaker
Power Button
Press and hold to turn Orba on or off
Press quickly to check battery charge status
USB-C Port Charge Orba's battery and connect to external devices
Headphone Output 1/8" audio output for headphones, speakers, or recording devices
Speaker 3W active speaker system
Charging Orba
Orba can be charged from any power-supplying USB port using the included USB-C cable. Orba remains fully functional while charging, so you can keep playing, even while you're
juicing up.
When you connect Orba to a power source and turn it on, you'll see a green LED lit up on Pad 8. This indicates that Orba's battery is charging. Unless turned on, Orba won't give any
indication that it is charging.
You can check your Orba's charge amount at any time by quickly pressing the power button. Green LEDs will indicate how much battery power your Orba has left.
Terms to Know
Here, we'll cover some of the nomenclature we use in Orba-land! Terms defined in this section are used throughout this guide.
Part Orba has four Parts: Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead. Each part has its own Sound. You can quickly cycle through Parts using the [A] button.
Sound Each Part has a Sound. You can change the currently loaded Sound of a given Part from the SOUNDS tab in the Artiphon Connect app.
Sound Pack
Artiphon has created groups of Sounds that work well together, which you can load as Sound Packs from the Artiphon Connect app. When you load a
Sound Pack, a new sound is loaded into each Part, and Orba is switched to a curated key and tempo. Sound Packs have no Loops, so you can start with a
clean slate to create a new song!
Song
A Song encompasses everything happening on your Orba. You can think of a Song like a Sound Pack that also includes Loops. The moment you've recorded
a Loop on your Orba, you've created a Song, which you can save using the Artiphon Connect app to share or load again later.
Loop Loops are recordings of live performances played recorded onto your Orba. See Looping.
Gesture
Orba has an array of movement-based Gestures, such as Radiate and Tilt, that change Orba's sounds in different ways for an added layer of expressiveness
in playing. See Gestures.
Stem Pack
A Stem Pack is a type of Sound Pack where each Part is made up of looping portions of audio. Stem Packs cannot be used with Sounds, because Stem
Packs are key and tempo locked. These Packs provide a super cool way to "remix" existing songs on an instrument-by-instrument basis.
