Features
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
1. Blocks
Organize your piece in musical blocks
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.
2. 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
Question
Answer
Answer based on question
Answer Prime
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
Strings
Violin, Viola, Celli, Double Bass
Orchestral Solos
Solo Violin, Solo Cello
Orchestral percussions
Timpani, Triangle, Cymbals, Bass drum, Snare drum, Tenor Drum, Tambourine, Castanets, Gong, Tubular Bells, Glockenspiel, Xylophone
6. VST/Audio units
VST/Audio units
Plug your machine instrument collection, and fine tune your composition directly inside Orb Composer.
