Artiphon Connect 4+

Hey! So I got one of these things for Christmas, and it’s pretty cool. The idea is cool, but the app needs some fixing. The app is really hard to navigate, you can’t delete things you have recorded, when you press the record button it takes 10 seconds for it to go, there aren’t enough customization options, it is really hard to record something new without something else playing in the background, and a lot of other things that need fixing. When you pay $150 for a device, you should get an app that helps you instead of an app that barely works. Please fix these things.

Hi Jack, thanks for taking the time to write this review. We appreciate your feedback and are always working to improve the app. In the meantime, to erase your loops, you can press and hold (A) + pad 6 until the LEDs circle Orba 2 once. That will erase the loops for one mode. Pressing and holding (A) + pad 6 until the LEDs circle Orba 2 twice will erase your entire song. For any other questions about this, please feel free to contact us at support@artiphon.com.

App is … I don’t know, ok? Relying on the app for the sole way to access most of the functions is a fundamental design flaw of the Orba 2. I cannot get the thing to connect, update firmware, anything… either with a cable or via BT. So can’t change sounds, can’t access samples, can’t change keys, can’t mess with recordings, etc. Effectively I have a round, four voice keyboard…
If they can get the app functioning, it would be great if they could improve quantization to be more… idk musical? The ability to choose a key is cool but only limited to maj/min … so no funky melodies or chords are possible. This, especially, should be an east fix that would greatly expand the usefulness of Orba 2, which is currently limited to a simple do-re-mi. Unless you went to the trouble of manually sampling every note for all instruments…. but then I can’t get the samples to work so….

Hey there, thanks for sharing your feedback with us. Our team would be happy to help you get your Orba 2 connected to the Artiphon Connect app. Please send us an email at support@artiphon.com, and we'll get you connected and playing as soon as possible.

The Orba 2 is a really fun instrument to play with. However, there are couple things that could be done better.

The manual was lacking, there was a lot of information missing from there that should have been easily accessible; like how to change the tempo or clear a recording. My biggest issue is the quantization, it’s absolutely horrendous. Even when you click the button in the app to make your song sound "as recorded", there’s no difference between the snap quantization. The "Groove" setting is the only one which makes it sound as recorded, but it ALWAYS adds another beat, and takes the last one away in the last measure.

I really want to use this instrument to record music, but I cannot do so unless you fix the quantization.

Hey there, thanks for the review. It looks like information on how to adjust tempo is on page 17 of the Orba 2 user manual and information on clearing loops is on page 8. As for quantization, our support team would be happy to look into this for you. You can contact us at support@artiphon.com.