Now shipping, the Future Retro UV Orb ($580) is a new, highly limited edition of the company's original Orb sequencer. With a shockingly bright UV green finish, the UV Orb is guaranteed to glow brighter than anything else in your studio. Only 40 units will be offered. The UV Orb boasts the same features and functions as the standard Orb unit. Read on:

The UV Orb is an easy to use, single track, step-based digital sequencer, ideal for controlling the company's XS semi-modular synthesizer or any other analog CV / Gate or MIDI synthesizer. Based on the Revolution concept, the UV Orb provides an intuitive, one-hand accessible interface designed to represent the cyclic nature of music.

Its compact size and layout let you carry out all sequencing functions with a single hand. There are 256 recordable patterns available, each recording note duration, pitch, accent, glide, loop point, time signature, and swing amount. Pattern editing features include copy / paste, pattern shifting, pattern transposing, multiple pattern cueing for chaining patterns together live, and LED chase. In addition, all pattern editing and recording can be done while the sequencer is running, and it will automatically save all your edits for you.

The UV Orb also provides the ability to play patterns forward or backward, as well as remotely select patterns to play using MIDI program change messages. There are 16 songs to arrange the patterns in, each recording its tempo, the bank / pattern for each step, the transposition of each step, and the song's loop point. Each of the 16 songs can contain up to 3,580 measures, and multiple songs may be chained together so they play sequentially. Moreover, the Remix feature (like that of the Revolution) provides 256 variations for every pattern and song. Patterns and songs can be backed up via SysEx dumps to other Orb units, Revolution units, or your computer.

The UV Orb provides separate 1/4-inch jacks for the CV out (1V / Oct standard) with adjustable Glide Time control, Gate out (positive polarity type, 0 to +12V), and Accent out (positive polarity type gate, 0 to +10V) for playing most analog synthesizers. The unit can also act as a MIDI to CV converter, allowing any MIDI keyboard or controller or sequencer to contol an analog synthesizer. It's also possible to sync most pre-MIDI analog sequencers and arpeggiators to MIDI clock by using the Gate out signal as a programmable clock source. MIDI In, Out, and Thru are all provided for syncing playback with external sequencers, playing MIDI sound modules, or using the UV Orb as a MIDI to CV converter.

The sequencer is housed in a rugged aluminum chassis with blue LEDs all around, with and a high contrast black on green finish for superior viewing of controls in any environment, with or without a blacklight. Spherical switches allow for quick selection of multiple steps by sweeping through the surface of step keys.

For more details, please visit future-retro.com.