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It looks promising with more practice. It’s a real instrument so it’s not easy to make good music but it’s intuitive. I really wait some more updates of the firmware and for the app to have a great instrument.

The Orba is easy to learn and get into. Fun by itself and wonderful as a midi controller in GarageBand and Logic Pro on Mac and iOS.

The Orba itself is neat, feels sturdy and is kind of like an adult fidget spinner (remember those?). I'm taking off a couple of stars for the less than useless app that should be the beating heart of the software that runs the whole operations but ultimately does...nothing. It opens, you can see that there are sounds that you should be able to switch to, but nothing happens when you 'load' them. I understand that it runs on another sort of Bluetooth, but despite it saying that it is connected to my Orba it manages to do absolutely zip. Nothing. Nada. The team at Artiphon don't respond to emails, they are like the personification of their rubbish app.

great tool to create basic loops. not able to load own presets. not able to save the recordings. unstable firmware.

Very well built device and super fun to play with. The interface is not super intuitive and recording loops is a bit fiddly but overall a very cool musical input tool

It pains me to do this because I reckon Artiphon are struggling, but I can't seem to get any response. I backed the Orba on Kickstarter and received it much earlier (over 5 months ago) than the many outstanding backers who still haven't received theirs. Unfortunately it had a very loud vibration motor - quite hard to make music when all you can hear is buzz buzz buzz every time you touch any buttons. I emailed them September 13th with a video demonstrating the problem. They replied October 8th "This is a known issue happening with some Orbas. I'm going to turn your ticket over to [colleague] who can help you process a return/replacement." Hearing nothing further, I chased on November 11th. I received a reply on November 25th "We [...] are expecting warranty replacement shipments to start rolling out at the end of next week. We'll send out tracking numbers as soon as we have them" Hearing nothing further again, I chased on January 22nd and February 15th. Then yesterday I received a prompt to rate Artiphon on TrustPilot, so here we are. 5 months since I complained, 4 months since they promised me a replacement, 3 months since any contact from them at all. I like to think I'm a relaxed and forgiving individual, and I understand that there's a global pandemic happening. My experience with the Orba itself is that it is basically what I backed the Kickstarter for. It's a lot of fun and does what I expected, and if it didn't have the flaw I'd be very happy with it. But I'm probably not going to purchase from Artiphon again, despite them making really interesting musical instruments, simply because of this customer service.

More difficult than it looks. BUT I bought this for my son, and he figured out how to make beautiful music in less than 5 minutes without any instructions or even looking at the YouTube videos. Go figure...

Orba is an intuitive delight. Arrived in compact minimalist but protected packaging. The shape and design are elegant. The touch sensitivity is responsive as are gestures. Instant groove machine and inspiration to just play, experiment, goof-doodle with sound, nice stress reliever. I’m gifting one to my infant grandson, when his parents allow electric devices, I hope this will be an early experience for him..and look forward to the vid shorts of those baby jams.