Playtronica Orbita Review

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9 months ago

Review of colourful turntable sequencer.

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00:00So we're here on the Playtronica booth. This is Sasha. Hello Sasha. Hi. Hello

00:05You've got Orbiter here, which is well

00:09It just looks like a really cool connect for slash turntable slash

00:14Magnetic thing and it does lots of cool stuff. So well, please talk us through it. All right, so

00:21Originally the idea was to make a sequencer

00:25from colors and

00:27That was this device was the first prototype. It's basically RGB sensor that gets

00:33information from color and turns it into MIDI

00:36but later on we had this idea to make a turntable and

00:41Here it is. We have four tracks which can be assigned to different elements

00:46different instruments

00:48hardware or software

00:50We can also use applications online web sense, but most of all it works with colors and for us it's very important

00:59instrument so to say medium because with color we can create melodies and rhythms without even thinking about the

01:07You know

01:08notation and stuff like that

01:10So this idea as you see it resonates. Also, we made a podcast podcast episodes

01:17It's called seeing sound where we talk with different people

01:21about this idea of synesthesia and combining sound and music so

01:28Let's try it

01:32Yeah, go for it show us how it all works

01:42So now we're in

01:45Ambient mood. So these two

01:49These two tracks they goes to this rhythm composer from 80s. You have the sound and this is the

01:58ambient bells

02:00This is as well high-frequency toy piano coming from Ableton

02:04But let's play

02:15So

02:23That's a bell track, right

02:35Right and now we go with some rhythm

02:45And adding some pad sounds

02:59This should be in one tone, so it's a

03:03If colors are matching that means they're the same notes, which means I can do chords and combinations

03:14Oh

03:18Let's do some chords

03:30And some melody melodies here

03:45So this is the prototype and here

03:52The look how the product will be

03:56In a half a year hopefully so this is the final prototype

04:01It's slightly smaller a little bit heavier as a much more

04:06Nicer surface to spin good magnets and the PCB which would be changeable

04:12So you can work with colors with graphics with?

04:17With the standalone synthesizer. So there are quite many options

04:22And I noticed on this on this one you've got more of a grid pattern to the yeah exactly to the

04:28Platter as it were. I suppose that's to help people with if they want to kind of be a bit more sort of driven into

04:35For for and all this business. It's not even to be driven to for for it's just to have

04:41Pleasure while taking first steps because working without greed is very good for

04:48Professional user, but if you're first to the music you kind of feeling this

04:53this balance

04:55Not to read me go part. So yeah, we're more of a guy just to get on the right track

05:00Yeah, so then you just quantize it but quantize it physically by moving your fingers on the blade and putting everything

05:09Accurate we used to say what looks good. That sounds good

05:16Sasha thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. I

05:19Understand it's coming up for a kickstarter campaign soon. Yeah exactly in the next month in October

05:24We'll announce the date on the orbit of later. I think a dot-com

05:28We'll look out for that. Yeah. Thank you so much for the demo. And I hope you have a great show. Thank you

05:38You

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