Orb Composer | Artificial Intelligence for composers | Review
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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*NOTE | The newest version doesn't have the complicated routing. Check the link.
Orb is the name of the most accomplished music composition Artificial Intelligence in the world. It is designed for composers, bands, orchestrators or simply everyone fond of music.
About Orb Composer by Hexachords
Introduction
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 with 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.
Chords progression library: Orb Composer embeds a library of chords progression which you can enrich. It Includes many of the chords used in the music industry. Orb Composer provides a complete range of possible harmonic colours.
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.
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I’m looking for your name these days Josh Casper. Your tutorials and promos are amazing. Perfect mix of info, time management. Appreciated.
I am using the latest version 1.5 and understand from others that this is a much improved version in functionality, usability and reliability. i am enjoying the possibilities this provides. I use all the tools available which include Captain Chords, Band-in-a-box, EZKeys, Scaler but none have the orchestration component that this package does. I think it fits nicely in the mix and expands the scope of my solutions--particularly since I am not an orchestral composer but some of my work could benefit from this. Being able to import a melody file and then have the system build the orchestration is really cool.
Orb Composer is indeed an amazing piece of software. I've never used the full orchestral template with all those different articulations, though.
In my videos I merely use piano and a bunch of other instruments with only one articulation.
I'm astonished by the beauty of the melodies this program can come up with. Very much enjoyed watching your video. *thumbs up*
Orb is stolen ideas and designs from mathmusic prototype and its not the first
As a new composer working on the soundtrack for a game I am collaborating with someone on, this program would be very useful in prototyping many of the pieces that the game will ultimately need. I would limit it to laying out just a few basic instruments so that it generates a "suggestion" for the piece. I would then take the "suggestion" and then flesh it out with my own adaptations. I would not want the computer to compose all my music for me, but it would be useful to have something that could generate what amounts to a concrete slab to build a house on. When someone moves into a house they end up calling their home for years, they generally don't pay attention to the slab it's built on, but they will pay all sorts of attention to the walls, the floors, the ceilings, and the internal and external accents. In music composition the chord progression is the general foundation. When I listen to chords, my mind begins wrapping a melody around them. then the harmonies come into play as well as the accents and embellishments. So yeah...as long as I still get to do most of the composition work, I wouldn't mind having a program generate a foundation to work off of.
I love the fact that you didn't candy coat your experience with it. I don't have a great history with plugins like this but I'm curious.
Thanks for this very good and honest video. It is really refreshing with all those "paid for" reviews there's on UA-cam. I wish you would adopt this kind of honesty to the videos you make for PluginBoutique as that could have saved me a quite a few bucks over the time. Good job... this channel seems to be the one to watch if you want the truth about a plugin.
Yeah, I agree. The learning curb is quite steep, but for a newbie, I'm getting the hang of it. It really is a great program. A lot of it is trial and error, noting all the things that work right for you. And recently the program has gone over a very impressive 'face lift'. You now have the option to use drums and so many more wonderful enhancements. It's been said that Orb won't replace the composer, it's still up to you (the composer) to tweak out the melodies to your exact liking. I've spent hours working on one single song, working in a phrase building environment. There are so many parameters that you are really only limited by your imagination. I look forward to purchasing the Pro version and to further broaden my learning experience. I'm so tired of dancing around looking for other generating software programs. For me, the journey stops here. For anyone who hasn't tried it, try it, learn it, eat, breathe, and love it !
I got the Artist S version just recently (luckily on sale at half price). Have to say: big disappointment. Nothing feels intuitive about this app - I'm not a trained musician and I don't sight-read music, but I have been playing keys for 30 years now and using MIDI DAWs since the dawn of time itself. Orb is just not an easy software to get into. It doesn't help you; it won't make things easier for you and it explains little to nothing. You either have to invest a huge amount of non-creative time in just figuring it out by trial-and-error or, more likely, shut it down and get back to making music in your favorite DAW.
I *think* Orb might have potential in the right hands and I'd be very interested to hear some good (and I mean good) examples of Orb in use by someone who really knows what they are doing with it, but, so far, based on my own experience with the Artist S version, I'm not feeling it at all. And it absolutely rankles that this 'composition' tool doesn't come with anything but Major and Minor chords. Forget those dreamy min7ths and maj7ths (let alone 9ths and 11ths). If they are there I cannot find them. It just doesn't feel good at all. The Artist S version is a 'cut-down' version - it also lacks all but 4/4 time. Baffling.
This isn't an app for those who just want something new to easily explore and gain some instant inspiration from. It will require time, experimentation and patience. If that's your bag, go knock yourself out. The Artist S version is not a good deal - it is missing too many important features to be creatively useful enough. Everyone else, save your money or spend it on something more immediately musically gratifying.
Great explanation, thanks for sharing your ideas and experience.
Basically all the program does is composes the *Arrangement* around an oringal Composition that you wrote. A Songwriter composing the concept and an Arrnager building and adding elements around it.
Hey JC.
Have you heard any news on the newest version of Orb Composer 2.0 coming out this 2022?
Sadly... only a few DAWs are compatible with this Program. Ableton IS... Logic X for example ISN'T
When I double click it, why I don't get the Clip Settings? Thanks for the demo.
is it ok for electronic music?
How do you sync it with ableton. I mean I want to press play to start both programs at once.
I recently purchased it, and hardly got into assigning the different articulations. Get to about 15 articulations, for 6 instruments 2015 mac pro, 6 core 64h gig ram, 24 terrabyte raid 5, sends Logic into overdrive, and all audio just 'stutter's.. Can't see how some of the videos are made, without overloading Logic's CPU.. Using Logic Pro, Audio units, Kontakt libraries. So right now, the whole thing is totally useless.. I'll keep watching video, and figure out if I'm mis-reading something. I've dealt with several AI programs before. They by nature are very complex. and documentation, is extremely skimpy. Written by someone already using the program for quite a while, and they assume the new user has all the back-ground information they have. Like using the word itself in the definition of the the word.. . Still the results are so fascinating.
I agree, my version crashes even with an intro template for piano- it is completely useless. If support can't fix it, I'll need my money back
The software should come with its own stock sounds.
4 real...Not everyone uses a DAW!
hi Joshua
maybe you can lock two articulations per instrument,namely,longs and shorts
then,when the program did his thing you can choose wich longs (legato,sustain) and/or shorts (stacc,pizz) you use
for me the program would be exellent for all my orchestral instruments i have
but to have access to the instruments AI you have to buy the pro version
wich for me is too expensive,maybe in a vstbuzz deal LOL
This program crashes!
And when not does weird route to a confusing random number of unclear next step?
The newest version "S" is a standalone without the complicated routing.
How does this compare to AIVA?
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Sorry if you mentioned this in the vid, but is this the Artist or Composer version?
He's using the Pro version. The Artist version doesn't have the template with the orchestra setting (bootloads of instruments)
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what computer did you have these issues on? Macbook?
Windows 10, Alienware 15 R3
@@JoshuaCasper ok, so I'm guessing Macbook Pro could very well have the same technical issues of saving and loading projects with all the orchestral articulations loaded in Ableton?
damit Enya
This program is just awful and crashes on both PC and Mac version. The support is non-existent and rude when you do get in contact with them.
I got told to go into the edit menu and check the option OpenGL. It solved my problems- runs smoothly now
Stop spreading false news
This might be the biggest heap of junk I've ever seen. AI? Where? There is no description of what the AI does on their website nor does it sound like an "intelligent" composer would come up with. Normally I'm not that guy since I love technology, but if you need anything like that a different hobby might be more suited.
I think it's good for folks who are more sound designers but maybe aren;t great at making whole songs. Honestly it sounds a ton like the stuff Above and Beyond puts out nowdays. I think it's useful in certain niches but if you're using it for your entire album then yeah.... don;t get found out.
Actually, what this does is fairly impressive. Yes, its not on the level of what a composer would come up with, what this does however is to help lay a framework for a piece, then the composer can set about tweaking. The way to think of this is sort of the adlibs for music.