Following our review of the Numark Orbit in May, we heard from Brian Roberson an ex-special needs teacher and former Numark employee who has also been playing around with the Orbit. He wanted us to know about the ability to send MIDI messages to the Orbit to control the lights in realtime.

“If you send notes with certain velocities back to the Orbit, you can affect the colors of the lights. This is helpful in creating a 1-to-1, follow my directions type of activity with music, almost like a complex ‘Simon-says’.”

You can see Brian controlling the Orbit in the video below.

http://youtu.be/hYNXREyijSc

The MIDI Note numbers need to match the notes assigned to each pad, with the velocity sent changing the colour. Here is a rough mapping of colours to MIDI Note velocities (thanks to users on the Serato Forum: https://serato.com/forum/discussion/1063717):

1 dark blue – low
2 dark blue – medium
3 dark blue – bright
4 green – low
5 teal – low
6 light blue – low
7 light blue – bright
8 green – medium
9 teal – medium
10 light blue – medium
11 light blue – bright
12 green – bright
13 teal green – medium
14 teal blue – medium
15 teal blue – bright
16 red – low
17 purple – low
18 violet – low
19 violet – bright
20 neon yellow – low
21 white – low
22 white – medium
23 white – bright
24 neon green – low
25 grey- low
26 grey – medium
27 grey – bright
28 neon green – medium
29 pale green – medium
30 pale blue – medium
31 ice blue – bright
32 red – medium
33 violet – medium
34 purple – low
35 ice purple – bright
36 yellow – medium
37 pale peach – low
38 pale grey – medium
39 pale grey – bright
40 neon yellow – medium
41 white – medium
42 grey – medium
43 ice grey – bright
44 neon green – medium
45 pale green – bright
46 pale blue – bright
47 ice blue – bright
48 red – bright
49 fusia – bright
50 purple – medium
51 ice purple – bright
52 amber orange – bright
53 pale pink – bright
54 ice purple – medium
55 ice purple – bright
56 yellow – bright
57 grey – bright
58 white – bright
59 ice white – bright
60 neon yellow – bright
61 pale green – bright
62 white – bright
63 ice blue – bright
64 off
65 blue – low
66 blue – medium
67 blue – bright
68 green – low
69 light blue – low
70 light blue – medium
71 light blue – bright
72 green – low
73 teal – low
74 teal – medium
75 teal – bright
76 green – bright
77 aqua – low
78 aqua – medium
79 aqua – bright
80 red – low
81 lylac – low
82 dull purple – medium
83 ice purple – medium
84 yellow – low
85 grey – low
86 dull blue – medium
87 dull blue – bright
88 neon yellow – medium
89 dull teal – medium
90 grey – medium
91 dull blue – medium
92 neon green – medium
93 teal – medium
94 aqua – medium
95 light blue – bright
96 red – medium
97 fusia – low
98 purple – medium
99 purple – bright
100 amber yellow – low
101 pale pink – medium
102 pale purple – medium
103 ice blue/purple – bright
104 neon yellow -medium
105 grey – medium
106 grey – bright
107 ice blue -medium
108 neon yellow – medium
109 pale green – medium
110 pale blue – medium
111 ice blue -medium
112 red – bright
113 fusia – bright
114 lylac – bright
115 purple bright
116 amber orange – medium
117 light pink – medium
118 light purple – bright
119 ice purple – bright
120 yellow – medium
121 peach – medium
122 ice violet – medium
123 ice violet – bright
124 yellow – bright
125 white – low
126 white – medium
127 white – bright