Introduction – Future Retro Orb Owner Manual User Manual

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for choosing the Orb. Please take time to read through
the entire manual for a compete understanding of the operations
and procedures needed to master this device.

OVERVIEW
The Orb is a single-track programmable digital step sequencer
designed to play analog and MIDI instruments.
The Orb is a perfect choice for sequencing our XS
semi-modular synthesizer, and various other MIDI and CV/Gate
type synthesizers.
This step-based sequencer provides 256 storable patterns that users
can create and edit in real-time while the unit plays. Patterns may
be selected and played in any order live, or prearranged into one of
the 16 song locations stored in memory. In addition, the Orb offers
our Remix feature that provides 256 variations for every pattern
and song, for more than 65,000 possible patterns right out of the
box.
The Orb can play external MIDI sound modules and CV/Gate type
synthesizers, sync playback with other MIDI sequencers, and also
act as a MIDI to CV/Gate converter.

PHILOSOPHY
The Orb is based on the same sequencer design used in our
Revolution synthesizer/sequencer. In fact, patterns created in the
Orb can also be used in the Revolution units and vice versa. The
Orb is designed to illustrate loop-based music in a much more
natural way than has been provided in the past with traditional
instruments. Think about it….
The basis of music is time. Time is nothing more than our
perception of the heavenly bodies spinning through their celestial
orbits.
From ancient sundials to modern analog clocks, time has been
represented as the circle, a cycle which never ends, illustrating the
infinite within a finite amount of space. So why not use this same
knowledge to represent music?

Enjoy the power of the Orb!

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