Artiphon Connect 4+
(Chorda, Orba 2)
Artiphon, Inc.
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- Free
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Description
This is Artiphon’s companion app for Orba 2 that lets you:
• Connect your Orba 2 and Chorda wirelessly using MIDI over Bluetooth
• Explore and play hundreds of new sounds, as well as change keys, and tunings
• Record entire songs and loops with Drum, Bass, Chord, and Lead parts
• Create your own instruments and sample any sound in the world
• Customize your sounds by adjusting individual part volume, add reverb and delay, and more
• Perfect your song by adding Quantize, which snaps your musical phrases to the beat so that every moment fits perfectly into the groove.
The Artiphon Connect app allows you to choose between over a hundred new audio-based presets. Including sounds inspired by genres like Trap, RnB, Electro-pop, Lofi, and more. With Artiphon Connect, you can now play instruments like electric guitars and upright pianos, as well as more adventurous sounds like vocals, found sounds, and custom artist songs. Imagine conducting an orchestra in the park with no strings attached and no screens required.
We’re also pleased to be introducing an all new Drum sampling feature, which lets you sample your world. Build your own drum kit and add custom samples to individual pads. And you’re not limited to drum sounds, by the way: you can turn your Artiphon instrument into your own sound effects board and DJ kit. This feature has been highly requested, so we expect some crazy creative setups from all of you!
You’ll also use your Artiphon Connect app to explore the new quantize feature, which snaps your musical phrases to the beat so that every moment fits perfectly into the groove. In addition, you’ll be able to mix the volume of your individual parts, add reverb and delay, and more.
This app is only compatible with Orba 2 and Chorda by Artiphon. If you are looking for the Orba 1 app, search for “Orba 1” in the app store.
Reach out at support@artiphon.com
What’s New
Version 1.0.463
The Orba 2 app just got a major makeover: welcome to Artiphon Connect! This new hub will work with both Orba 2 and Chorda. By having one app for both instruments, you can share Songs, sounds, settings, and Presets between the different instruments, and it also comes with exciting new features:
Drum Sampling! Build your own drum kit and add custom samples to individual pads. And you’re not limited to drum sounds, by the way: you can turn your Artiphon instrument into your own sound effects board and DJ kit. This feature has been highly requested, so we expect some crazy creative setups from all of you!
Along with increased app stability, this update brings additional improvements, including bug fixes, faster firmware updates for Orba 2, and more.
Happy playing!
Ratings and Reviews
Definite improvements
They’ve made quite a few updates and improvements since this came out. I’d love to see more editing functions to utilize my own sounds in the drum portion. I’d love to be able to make my own kit with either the provided sounds (mix and match) or uploading my own samples to use. Thanks for the continued support!
Developer Response ,
Hi Kurt, thanks for leaving a review. We appreciate the feature requests, and I will be sure to pass them along to the team.
Nonfunctional for Orba
The original Orba app never had a 1.0 release and has been abandoned for nearly a year. This new app does not support the Orba 1. That would be bad but less shocking if you could not still buy the Orba 1 new at retail stores. But you can, so it is a real mess.
The Orba devices are good as MIDI controllers. And that’s not a knock, they really are good MIDI controllers. However, their software is awful and undercuts the Orba’s functionality as an independent device.
Developer Response ,
Hey there, thanks for sharing this feedback. That's correct, Orba 1 users will need to continue to use the Orba 1 app. If you are having any specific issues using the app, please let us know. You can contact us at support@artiphon.com, and we'll be happy to look into it.
Not even limited support for the first gen?
I just got an Orba first generation as a slightly late Christmas gift and was tickled when I connected it to my iPad and it worked great as a Bluetooth midi controller! Then as I started exploring more and realizing that I had an older model (hopefully purchased on sale), I was a little disappointed but resided to just be happy with the more limited feature set and have fun exploring what it could do. Then came the realization that I could not use the most recent version of the software! Now I assume that I have features in the older software that closely match the capabilities of the unit that I have… but I also wonder why it needs to be a entirely separate application! It feels like that bodes poorly for future support of the device I now own. Why not just have one overall app that supports the feature set of the various models? I see the graphic feedback of this app for example and I am not sure why that could not be implemented for the original Orba. 🤔 Also, as I was stunned to discover that I could not update the firmware from an iPad Pro. It feels very strange to not be able to use my incredibly capable device to send an update to the Orba. I am hopeful that the distortion I am hearing from the headphone Jack will be fixed by a firmware update, but I won’t be able to find out for another week. 🤨
Developer Response ,
Hi there, thanks for the feedback. We just responded to your review for the Orba 1 app with some more information about Orba 1 vs Orba 2 features. Because you have an Orba 1, please make sure you are using the Orba 1 app. If you are having trouble with your headphone jack, please contact us at support@artiphon.com for further assistance.
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Information
- Seller
- Artiphon Inc.
- Size
- 92.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Artiphon
- Price
- Free