Orbiters Overview

Orbiters are instruments you play.

You play one by moving three axes, X, Y and Z, on screen or by tilting a phone.

What an Orbiter is made of

Move over the craft: across turns X, up and down turns Y.

Think of an Orbiter as a small craft:

On the craft	In an Orbiter
The three tracks round the ring	the axes X, Y and Z, from the outside in
The light on each track	where that axis is. It goes once round as the axis turns from −180° to 180°, and rests nearest you at 0°
The lit part of a track	how far the axis has turned, as on its knob

Its console, with the knobs, the screen and the modules, is on Interact.

When an Orbiter is open, you can:

Play and loop what it plays
Move X, Y and Z to transform the sound
Switch dimensions (I, II and III): each has its own modules and its own mapping of X, Y and Z
Add movement with the Cosmic LFO: slow waves, three per dimension, that the axes and the modules share, each moving what reads it by itself

Interact goes through each of these.

Quickstart: your first Orbiter in 5 minutes, from an empty Studio to playing it
For DAW users: the World, the Moon and the Star as tracks, return tracks and the main bus
Release: create and publish a new Orbiter
Edit: change an Orbiter you already made, and map its controls to the axes
Interact: open an Orbiter and play it
Sync: play several Orbiters together on one shared tempo
Sensors: play an Orbiter by tilting a phone

And the modules you build an Orbiter from, in four categories:

Instruments: what makes the sound, an audio you choose or notes
Audio effects: what shapes the sound
MIDI effects: what makes and reshapes the notes before the instrument plays them
Visual modules: what the sound does to the picture around the Orbiter