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I would love to see more companies like Artiphon in the world. Hardware startups with clever ideas and a knack for bringing them to market. Back in November 2020, I ...

Artiphon – maker of the Orba – has revealed its sequel – the Orba 2. Orba is a small, handheld music making device that almost defies description, and the Orba 2 piles on new features to make it even ...

The Orba 2 rocks the same palm-friendly dimensions as the original, at 3.14 inch diameter and 2 inches in height (7.9 x 5 cm), and features a similar-looking spread of eight capacitive sensing pads up ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nashville-based tech company Artiphon has a new music-making gadget up for backing on Kickstarter called Orba.

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 ...

Orba is a handheld synthesiser that allows you to quickly create a wide variety of sounds and music just a few seconds. Watch the demonstration videos below to learn more about the Orba a synth, ...

Artiphon first came to our attention in 2012/13 with a strange-looking digital instrument called the Instrument 1 that leveraged the processing power of a docked iPhone to create music. Now the team ...

I am simultaneously deeply fascinated by and deeply skeptical of strange niche instruments. As fun as a classic Stylophone is, for instance, it's pretty tricky to make decent-sounding music with. Even ...

Artiphon first made a splash back in 2013 when it started showing off a rather rough prototype of a device that would eventually become the Instrument 1. By the time it hit Kickstarter in 2015 it had ...

Artiphon, the startup that previously raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter for a device called the Instrument 1, has launched a new campaign for its latest invention, Orba. Co-founder and CEO ...

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