We’ve been following Artiphon closely over the years. Back in late 2020, I took a liking to the music startup’s latest smart instrument, the Orba. It’s not a complex musical instrument, by any stretch ...

Artiphon, the company behind the Orba handheld synth and MIDI controller, launched a new AR music creation app today that you don't need a musical background to enjoy. Minibeats for iOS uses gestures, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While you can certainly make Orba complicated by connecting it to a DAW or softsynth, the company is pitching it more like a $99 musical ...

The original Orba was a curious little baseball-sized device that invited people who couldn’t play a triangle if they tried to somehow create beats, bops and bass lines. The success of the original — ...

In the same way that digital cameras democratized photography, laptops and desktops getting more powerful and cheaper, internet ubiquity, free-to-download software, and the rise of MIDI, have made ...

Artiphon, the company behind novel musical instruments the Orba (which we reviewed last year) and Instrument 1, has made an augmented reality (AR) app called Scan Band that lets users turn objects ...

The Orba is mostly a musical curiosity, but a compelling one especially at the reasonable price of $100. But for its next version Artiphon is hoping to go beyond fidget toy and turn its little MPE ...