Orba is available now through our website Artiphon.com! We're currently in the process of shipping to all of our Kickstarters and early reservers so new orders should take about 4 to 6 weeks to deliver :).
Hello, I am interested in buying a used Artiphon 1 instrument in my area. The user is including the strap and charger but says there is no software with the device, I just have to download it from the website. Is this true? Thanks for your help!
Hi there! Yes, it's true, you don't need to purchase anything else. To be clear, the INSTRUMENT 1 is a MIDI controller, so it needs to be connected to a sound-generating device: iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, or USB synth. The INSTRUMENT 1 is compatible with MIDI-enabled software on Mac and PC, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, GarageBand, Logic, MainStage, FL Studio, Bitwig, Cubase, and more. Download the INSTRUMENT 1 Editor for Mac and Windows computers to customize your instrument settings when using third-party audio programs.
This looks like the most stable and reliable midi guitar around. The idea of real strings seems like it would feel better but they current products out there seem problematic
But unfortunately still sounds weird. I mean no one expects to sound like a real guitar but at least performance like a good keyboard. I’ve tried many of this MiDi guitars so far I’m still not satisfied.
Hi Mikko, great question. On the INSTRUMENT 1, you can’t pull off to an open note. The reason for this is that that would trigger a note every time you lift your finger off the fingerboard. Check out our video with some more information about playing around with INSTRUMENT 1's settings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7U7LNnZ35EQ.html...
@@Artiphon thanks. It seems to work with the Bow method, which confuses my rhythm hand, but I'll make it work. I'll see about playing around with this. I just got it two days ago and I love it so far.
Just curious why you chose every other sound thAn guitar for video not a organ....I wanted to see you treat it like a guitar! Love the instrument though!
I would like to hear it used with a traditional guitar sound to see what it really could sound like. The sounds you used were too extreme to be useful in evaluating this. The video is called guitar playing but it didn't sound anything like a guitar.
Respectfully, at two minutes and 57 seconds you demonstrate what you referred to as muting. You are not muting. You are playing a type of staccato. Muting, on a string instrument or something meant to be played as a strength instrument will be done, for example, by placing the flesh of your right hand on the bridge of your instrument and let it roll forward just a bit to mute the strings. Just think about the word itself. Mute. As in mutated. As in the initial signal has been changed via placing some kind of interference on the source of the sound. Thank you
