Features

Compose with an Artificial Intelligence

Orb Composer is a creative tool which you can model very precisely to assist you during your music composition work sessions.

What is ORB Composer?

Orb is the name of the first Artificial Intelligence designed for music composers. More than 5 years of research and development were necessary to create this smart tool for composers, bands, orchestrators, to help them experiment new musical ideas and enhance their creativity.

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 Composer is a creative tool which you can model very precisely to assist you during your music composition work sessions.

Orb in Standalone Mode

Orb works directly with your favorite VST/AU instruments

Each instrument and articulation can be directly connected to your VST/AU instrument, allowing a 100% standalone experience. This can be very useful for drafting, experimenting and making music instantly with a light setup.

Audio Export

Every track can be individually exported for further manipulation in your DAW of choice

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

Any crazy idea is welcome in Orb Composer. Want to write a symphonic score with an electric guitar playing the music theme? That’s possible! Quickly experiment exotic instruments combinations and see which one you want to stick to, and develop your ideas inside the final score.

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

Blocks

Structures

Chord Progression

Chords

Instruments

VST/Audio units

Blocks

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:

In a more intense or less intense version
With an instrument with a different melody
By integrating a variation
By simply copying the theme

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

Structures

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

Answer

Question

Answer Prime

Answer based on question

Chord Progression

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.

Chords

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.

Instruments

Add or Remove Instruments

In all the composition process, you are always free to choose the instruments, their articulations and roles or to let Orb Composer suggest choices based on intensity curve. A full list of instruments is available, organized by categories, letting you experiment a lot of new combinations of instruments. Each direction of the instruments has its own color and color palette

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

Plug your machine instrument collection, and fine tune your composition directly inside Orb Composer.

Friendly workspace

Orb Composer has been made to allow you to use it easily, the interface is clear, simple and all main functionalities are reachable from here. In one window, you can see the clips, yhe options and all the main features without going on fastidious submenus.

What you can do in the block area:

Different Bar Items
Different Bar Items
Draw curves
Manually create your instrument clips
Import Midi Melody

Create own Chords
Create Chord Progressions
BPM
5 Magic buttons
Time Signature
Complete clip edition

Main Features

Bar Items

Curves

Times Signature

Import Melody

Chord Progressions

Clips

Plug-ins

Other

Bar Items

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

Create as many chord progressions as you want or use our chord progressions library, organized in moods.

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

Articulation
Role
Dynamics
Rhythm

Register
Polyphony
Different chord notes
Complete clip edition

Clips can be lock for safety, and can be moved on other instrument or theme structure.

Main Features

Articulations

Role

Dynamics

Rhythm

Polyphony

DCN

Articulations

Instrument Articulations

You can select many different articulations for real instruments, for example for Violins : Legato, Long, Marcato, Staccato, Pizz, Bartok Pizz.

Value on the clip

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.

Role

Instrument Role

In all the composition process you can choose the instruments you need and for each of them, a role.

Doubling Notes and Rhythms

Notes and rhythms can be doubled by using the menu option.

Doubling Notes

Doubling Rhythms

Easy color system

For every kind of instrument’s role, a color is assigned to help you to manage your project.

Melodies

Yellow squares

Accompaniment

Orange squares

Background

Blue squares