Features
Compose with an Artificial Intelligence
What is ORB Composer?
YOU are the artist!
Orb Composer doesn’t replace the composer and doesn’t write music automatically. You have to feed Orb with your own choices. Orb creates music mock-ups based on your creativity and only with your musical ideas.
Music environment
You can create a complete musical environment according to the ideas you want to experiment. Orb updates in real time according to your new inputs.
Create new music styles
Create your own music styles and experiment with exotic instruments mixes, chord progressions, time signatures and accurate instruments clip settings.
High quality
Thanks to Orb Composer, you can reach the level of high quality required by the TV programs of broadcasting. Focus on the creative part of music before diving into the notes.
Compose music at a higher level
Orb Composer features help you get from musical ideas a complete composition. You can modify this as much as you want, to have the most perfect music composition you were thinking of.
It is always positive to focus on the music structure at a high level before diving straight into the notes.
Before writing a single note, think of music in terms of ideas, intentions and emotions. Orb Composer will turn it into a composition and provide a basis upon which you could then use your creativity and knowledge.
With or without your DAW
you choose!
Orb in Standalone Mode
Orb works directly with your favorite VST/AU instruments
Audio Export
DAW integration
Orb works with a large number of popular DAW's
You can integrate Orb Composer in any popular DAW. Please click on this link and follow the indications to use Orb with your favorite DAW.
Experiment new music ideas quickly
Orb Composer helps you transform a musical idea into a fully organized composition segment. You can modify this as much as you want, to have the reach this idea you have in your mind.
It is always positive to focus on the music structure at a high level before diving straight into the notes.
Think music in terms of ideas, intentions and emotions, before writing a single note.
Orchestration ideas
Orb Composer embeds the most powerful AI ever designed for orchestration. All the different instruments of the orchestra, with all their different articulations have been modelled individually, to reach a high level of orchestration knowledge.
New chord progressions
You can experiment new chord progressions and adjust them in real time in Orb Composer. Orb Composer builds the musical context and gives your chords all the density needed to have a realistic preview on how they would sound in a full musical context.
Experiment instruments combinations
Orb strengthens your creativity
Regardless of how you start your composition, Orb Composer assists you every step of the way.
At any time, enter your choices or ask Orb Composer to make suggestions according to your constraints. Export or record in your DAW the notes you have created.
You always have the last word in Orb Composer, which does not impose or restrict any choice.
Save time for deadlines
We have also designed Orb Composer features for composers working at the frontline needing to hit that deadline. For composers who work for TV, films, games and radio.
Turning an idea into a composition will not take weeks of work anymore, only the most pleasant part of composition will remain.
Orb Composer features have a significant benefit in terms of time and energy as it reduces time to experiment with new ideas and speed up the composition process.
Create your own music mock-ups in Orb Composer and use them as a very good starting point for your composition.
Use Music template
We propose 6 «basic» music templates to help you to pre-select a musical environment:
Orchestral
Piano
Pop-Rock
Strings
Electro
Ambient
The templates provide a list of default instruments and selects the AI engine accordingly.
Create your own composition
Experiment new music ideas quickly
Drag and drop the music blocks along the timeline of each sequence of your song (introduction, theme, variations, transitions, end, etc.) to create the complete structure of your composition. You can include as many blocks as you want without restriction. Each block can be independent from the others. Orb Composer also provides blocks variations implementation.
This allows to resume a main theme in different possible ways:
Block Scheme
The complete structure of the song is permanently visible in the top menu. To add a block, just click a + button or drag and drop a block from the Blocks tab.
To navigate in this structure, click on the block on which you want to work, the interface of Orb Composer will then refocus on this block.
Block Scheme
The complete structure of the song is permanently visible in the top menu. To add a block, just click a + button or drag and drop a block from the Blocks tab.
To navigate in this structure, click on the block on which you want to work, the interface of Orb Composer will then refocus on this block.
Create a musical structure precisely
Attach a structure type to each music block with a simple drag and drop.
Orb composer embeds a list of possible structures, containing sentences such as.
Standard
Question
Use Chord Progressions
Orb composer also embeds a library of chord progressions that you can enrich.
You can create new chord progressions by modifying the existing ones and saving them.
Any type of chord progressions can be created. Try and experiment new ones as much as you want.
Find quickly the chord progression you need with a simple search tool.
Chord progressions can be filtered by specififying a key, a number of chords or both.
You can associate the chord progressions to different moods, so that they can be filtered by mood.
Use our huge chords database
Orb Composer embeds a huge collection of different chord types to provide a full range of music colors.
This includes libraries of basic and extended chords. A simple search tool allow you find the chord you are looking for.
To include a chord of your choice in a block, drag end drop it in this block.
Highlighted keys reminds you notes of the chord you have selected.
Add or Remove Instruments
Keyboards
Piano, Celesta
Plucked
Harp, Guitar, Bass
Leads
3 leads instruments
Synth
2 Synth instruments
Bass electro
2 Bass Electro instruments
Pads
2 Pads instruments
Synth hardware
16 Synth hardware possible
Drums and Drum Kit
Drum kit, Drum kit extended and 47 spare elements
Percu
Subhit, Lowhit, Midhit, Highhit
Fx
4 FX instruments
Voice
Female Voices, male and child
Choir
Female Choirs (Soprano, Mezzo, Alto), male (Tenor, Baritone, Bass) and Children’s Choirs (Children, Boy and Girl).
Woodwinds
Picolo, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, Oboe, Cor Anglais, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Bassoons, Contra Bassoons
Brass
Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Contrabass Trombone, Cimbasso, Tuba, Contrabass Tuba
Orchestral Solos
Solo Violin, Solo Cello
Strings
Violin, Viola, Celli, Double Bass
Orchestral percussions
Timpani, Triangle, Cymbals, Bass drum, Snare drum, Tenor Drum, Tambourine, Castanets, Gong, Tubular Bells, Glockenspiel, Xylophone
VST/Audio units
Friendly workspace
What you can do in the block area:
Main Features
Different Bar Items
For each music block, pick a bar item, representing the block’s structure with the music phrases and the bars symmetry. It can be set very easily in order to create complex or simple music structures.
Curves
You can draw curves of “momentum” and “intensity”. For orchestration, you have an additional “Space” parameter. Momentum is related to the horizontal density of notes. Space is related to the number of instruments playing at the same time. Intensity is a complex high level parameter which depends on each instrument/articulation combination, dynamics, register and polyphony.
This text fails to include the new “density” curve for the Orchestral template. We’ve defined density as “Density increases or decreases the number of notes per bar. Higher density results in more notes per bar. Lower density results in fewer notes per bar.”
Times Signature
You can use different time signatures
- 4/4
- 3/4
- 2/4
- 5/4
- 6/4
- 5/8
- 6/8
- 7/8
- 9/8
- 12/8
Import Melody
For block item, you can import your own melody (MIDI format).
Chord Progressions
Clips
Each clip represents a little music segment played by a unique combination instrument/articulation. All the fine tuning parameters are available per clip, which gives you an infinite amount of tuning.
Plug-ins
Connect your instruments and effect, VST and Audio unit compatible.
Other
– Creation of instrument clips
Create, delete and edit easily your clips.
– BPM
Pick the BPM you want.
– Tonality/Mode
Set the tonality you want, with full mode control, including music modes.
– Sequencer functionalities
An easy-to-use playbar including Play/Play looped, stop.
– 5 Magic Buttons
– magic Melody : changes only the block’s melody
– magic Instruments : create instruments clips based on the curves (intensity/momentum)
– magic Chords : creates new block’s chords
– magic Notes : recreates the notes with the exact same clip parameters
– magic All in One : recreates everything above in 1 click
– Audio export
Flexible clip setting
Every clips can be separately edited, deleted, copied. You can manage clip duration but also a lot of settings like
Main Features
Instrument Articulations
Value on the clip
Instrument Role
Doubling Notes and Rhythms
Easy color system
Melodies
Yellow squares
Accompaniment
Orange squares
Background
Blue squares
Bass
Pink squares
Value on the clip
Dynamics
Dynamics with 4 dynamics family curves:
Value on the clip
Rhythm features
Value on the clip
Register
Value on the clip
Polyphony
For some instrumental roles such as Background, you have control over the polyphony for each instrument clip.
Value on the clip
Different Chord Notes
Value on the clip
New 1.5 Features
New Orb AI Engine
The core of Orb Composer is its very own Orb Engine. It is responsible for creating all the different variations and complex combination of instruments, their roles, notes and musicality resulting in greater melodies, expression, harmony and bass.
Midi Editor with control changes
Smart Melody import
Redesigned ORB chord progressions engine
DRUM Editor
New clip parameter windows
System Requirements
Operating systems
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan 64 bits |
Windows
Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64, Windows 8.1 x64, Windows 10 x64 (recommended)
Minimum System Requirements
Processor
| 2.4 GHz Intel or AMD multi-core processor At least Intel i5 or AMD A10 APU recommended |
RAM
| 1 GB 32 GB RAM recommended (required for your VST instruments loaded in your DAW) |
Onboard (minimum resolution 1280 x 768)
1920 x 1080 recommended
| Onboard ASIO compatible hardware is recommended |
| 2 GB (for program installation) |
CD/DVD drive
Only required for installation of the box version
| Connection required for downloads and activation Not applicable to the box version |
