Orb Composer Pro S
Orb Composer Pro S from Hexachords is a software that independently develops complete songs based on artificial intelligence. But contrary to the assumption that humans have finally become ballast, they will play a central role in this science fiction-like story.
The standalone software Orb Composer Pro S offers numerous tools to automatically generate musical components of a song. These include the invention of melodies, bass runs, harmonies, variations, structures (intro, chorus, verses, etc.), dramaturgy and the creation of music-theoretical references (chord functions, etc.). But of course all this doesn‘t just happen by pressing the „Go!“button and leaning back and relaxing!
No, rather the user has to define quite clearly what should actually happen. So he defines the key data and the software does the detailed work (and always keeps an overview). Afterwards, the user evaluates the result, adjusts it and lets the computer compose again.
In the DAW-like layout, the software can create several MIDI instruments that either use the internal sound generator or are equipped with your own favorite plug-ins. In the form of genre presets (electro, pop rock, orchestra, etc.), the software creates a correspondingly large or small number of tracks. From then on, the user drags so-called blocks into the arrangement, which contain the following information: Song part (intro or verse?), musical structure (question-answer game or standard?), chord progression (I-I-IV-V or I-VII-IIIII?) and so on. On the basis of this information, the artificial intelligence generates coherent sequences of notes that actually sound like music from the first attempts. After just one press of a button, it looks as if you had recorded 30 tracks in your DAW, colored them, structured them and built up an arrangement. The aforementioned block information can then be exchanged, changed and transformed into new compositions as desired via drag & drop. Also, you can really vary every phrase in every track with the AI. Unfortunately, there is no MIDI editor, so you can‘t just move a few notes to the left or transpose them - such obvious interventions are unfortunately not part of the program.
Producers for advertising music or other purposes, where a lot has to be composed and produced quickly, can benefit from this assistant. Musicians who just want to be inspired by automatically generated chord progressions and melodies should use smaller tools such Scaler, Captain Chords and so on. By the way: Hexachords are working on version 2, meanwhile the Orb Composer Pro S is currently only available via Plugin Boutique.
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