Experimental instrument lab
Orbital Violin
An orbital control surface for expressive violin resonance, where trajectory, stability, and proximity shape timbre in real time.
- Pull back from the probe to set aim.
- Fire, then nudge the orbit through the violin bodies.
- Match the mission band and hold lock until capture.
Preflight starts after this gesture. Headphones recommended.
Orbital Violin
First Orbit
Mission
Target pendingAcquire launch attitude.
- Band
- --
- Stability
- --
- Lock
- 0.0s / 0.0s
- Vector
- manual
Speed
Resonance
Stable
100orbit energy
Controls
- Pull back from the probe to lock an aim path.
- Keyboard: press A to lock aim, Arrow keys to adjust vector and power, then Space or Enter to launch.
- Camera: drag empty space at any time to orbit around the probe; Shift-drag or right-drag works anywhere.
- Wheel zooms, Arrow keys orbit during flight, and C restores follow view.
- Tap during flight for a correction impulse; hold to damp motion. Press Space or Boost for a forward burn.
- Demo Orbit plays a prepared stable orbit; O starts or aborts it from the keyboard.
- Editor opens the layout editor; choose Home, Hole, or any violin planet and drag it into place.
- R resets the current study, F toggles fullscreen, M mutes, Shift+H also opens the layout editor.
Aim locked
0%
PWR
- Speed
- 0.00
- Angular Momentum
- 0.00
- Orbit Stability
- 0.00
- Field Depth
- 0.00
- Resonance
- 0.00
- Energy
- 100%
- Nearest
- none
- Lock
- searching
- FPS
- --
Level Editor
Layout
Select a body, then drag it on the canvas.