• 4 months ago
Review of colourful turntable sequencer.
Transcript
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, but 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
00:53But most of all it works with colors and for us it's a 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 synaesthesia 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 ambient 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
02:18So that's a bell track, right
02:35Right, and now we go with some rhythm
02:37And
02:46Adding some pad sounds
02:59This should be in one tone, so it's
03:02If colors are matching that means they're the same notes, which means I can do chords and combinations
03:18Let's do some chords
03:20Oh
03:30And some melody melodies here
03:46So this is a prototype and here
03:51The 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 so you can work with colors with graphics
04:15with
04:17With the standalone synthesizer, so there are quite many options
04:21And 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
04:364-4 and all this business. It's not even to be driven to 4-4. It's just to have
04:41pleasure while taking first steps because
04:45Working without greed is very good for professional user
04:48But 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
05:10Accurate we used to say what looks good. That sounds good
05:16Thank you so much, yeah, thank you
05:18I understand 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 Anika calm
05:28We'll look out for that. Yeah. Thank you so much for the demo. And yeah, I hope you have a great show
05:33Thank you