We’ve been following Artiphon closely over the years. Back in late 2020, I took a liking to the music startup’s latest smart instrument, the Orba. It’s not a complex musical instrument, by any stretch, but as a fun little handheld sample/MIDI interface, it’s a great way to creatively kill some time during a global pandemic.
Last October, the company expanded Orba’s bag of tricks with the addition of Orbacam, an app that utilized the hardware interface to do some creative video editing.
“We believe that music is always a multisensory experience, and we designed Orbacam as an auditory, visual and tactile experience that anyone can play immediately,” the company’s founder and CEO Mike Butera said at the time. “We’ve seen the power of synchronizing music with social …