Playtronica Orbita Review
Review of colourful turntable sequencer.
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00:00 So we're here on the Playtronica booth. This is Sasha. Hello Sasha. Hi. Hello
00:04 You've got Orbiter here, which is well
00:08 It just looks like a really cool connect for slash turntable slash
00:14 Magnetic thing and it does lots of cool stuff. So well, please talk us through it. All right, so
00:20 Originally the idea was to make a sequencer
00:24 from colors and
00:27 That was this device was the first prototype. It's basically RGB sensor that gets
00:33 information from color and turns it into MIDI
00:36 but later on we had this idea to make a turntable and
00:40 Here it is. We have four tracks which can be assigned to different elements
00:45 different instruments
00:48 hardware or software
00:50 We can also use applications online web sense
00:53 But most of all it works with colors and for us it's very important
00:58 instrument so to say medium because with color we can create melodies and rhythms without even thinking about the
01:06 You know
01:08 notation and stuff like that
01:10 So this idea as you see it resonates also we made a podcast podcast episodes
01:17 It's called seeing sound where we talk with different people
01:21 About this idea of synaesthesia and combining sound and music. So
01:27 Let's try it
01:30 Yeah, go for it show us how it all works
01:34 So now we're in ambient mood so these two
01:49 These two tracks they goes to this rhythm composer from 80s. You have the sound and this is the
01:57 ambient bells
01:59 This is as well high-frequency toy piano coming from Ableton
02:03 But let's play
02:06 So
02:08 That's a bell track, right
02:35 Right and now we go with some rhythm
02:37 And adding some pad sounds
02:48 This should be in one tone, so it's
03:03 If colors are matching that means they're the same notes, which means I can do chords and combinations
03:08 Let's do some courts
03:20 And some melody
03:33 Oh melodies here
03:35 So this is the prototype and here we have
03:49 The look how the product will be
03:54 In a half a year hopefully so this is the final prototype
04:01 It's slightly smaller a little bit heavier as a much more
04:06 Nicer surface to spin good magnets and the PCB which would be changeable so you can work with colors with graphics
04:14 with
04:17 With the standalone synthesizer. So there are quite many options
04:20 And I notice on this on this one you've got more of a grid pattern to the yeah exactly
04:28 To the platter as it were. I suppose that's to help people with if they want to kind of be a bit more sort of
04:33 driven into
04:35 For for and all this sort of business. It's not even to be driven to for for it's just to have
04:41 pleasure while taking first steps because
04:44 Working without grid is very good for professional user. But if you're first to the music you kind of feeling this
04:52 this balance
04:55 Not to read me go part. So yeah more more of a guy just to get on the right track
05:00 Yeah, so then you just quantize it but quantize it physically by moving your fingers on the blade and putting everything
05:08 Accurate we used to say what looks good. That sounds good
05:13 Thank you so much, yeah, thank you. I
05:18 Understand it's coming up for a kickstarter campaign soon. Yeah exactly in the next month in October
05:24 We'll announce the date on the orbit of late. Ronnie. Kodak calm
05:28 We'll look out for that. Yeah. Thank you so much for the demo and I hope you have a great show
05:33 Thank you
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