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, it just looks like a really cool Connect4 slash turntable slash magnetic thing, and it does lots of cool stuff.
00:17So, well, please talk us through it.
00:19All right. So originally the idea was to make a sequencer from colors, and that was, this device was the first prototype.
00:30It's basically RGB sensor that gets information from color and turns it into MIDI.
00:37But later on we had this idea to make a turntable, and here it is.
00:42So we have four tracks, which can be assigned to different elements, different instruments, hardware or software.
00:50We can also use applications, online websites, but most of all it works with colors, and for us it's a very important instrument, so to say, medium,
01:01because with color we can create melodies and rhythms without even thinking about the, you know, notation and stuff like that.
01:10So this idea, as you see, it resonates also.
01:15We made a podcast episode, it's called Seeing Sound, where we talk with different people about this idea of synesthesia and combining sound and music.
01:27So let's try it.
01:32Yeah, go for it. Show us how it all works.
01:40So now we're in ambient mood, so these two, these two tracks, they go to this recent composer from 80s, you have the sound, and this is the ambient bells, and this is as well high frequency toy piano coming from Ableton, but let's play.
02:10So, that's a bell track, right?
02:35Right, and now we go with some rhythm.
02:37And 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.
03:18Let's do some chords.
03:20And some melody.
03:34Melodies here.
03:35So this is the prototype and here we have the look how the product will be in a half
03:57a year hopefully so this is the final prototype it's slightly smaller a little bit heavier
04:05as a much more nice surface to spin good magnets and the PCB which would be changeable so you
04:13can work with colors with graphics with with the standalone synthesizer so there are quite
04:19many options and I notice on this on this one you've got more of a grid pattern to the yeah
04:27exactly to the to the platter as it were I suppose that's to help people with if they
04:32want to kind of be a bit more sort of driven into 4-4 and all this business it's not even
04:38to be driven to 4-4 it's just to have pleasure while taking first steps because working without
04:46grid is very good for professional user but if you're first to the music you're kind of
04:52feeling this this balance and not rhythmical parts so yeah more of a guide just to get
05:00you on the right track yeah so then you just quantize it but quantize it physically by
05:05moving your fingers on the plate and putting everything accurate we used to say what looks
05:12good that sounds good haha nice I like that yeah that works well Sasha thank you so much yeah
05:17thank you I understand it's coming up for a Kickstarter campaign soon yeah exactly in the next month in
05:24October we will announce the date on the orbit of leitronica.com right we'll look out for that
05:30yeah thank you so much for the demo and um yeah hope you have a great show thank you
05:34you
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