Orbita vs FIELD KIT Playback Engine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbita
Create evolving, interlocking grooves with a circular sequencer. Distribute beats across eight sample tracks to explore polyrhythms and shifting accents. Shape sounds, load custom samples, and generate hypnotic, organic rhythms.
- Circular sequencer
- Eight sample tracks
- Polyrythm exploration
- Accent and offset shifting
- Custom sample loading
- Sound shaping controls
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Orbita is a Euclidean Rhythm Drum Machine plugin designed for creating evolving, interlocking grooves with ease. Built around a circular sequencer, it lets you distribute beats across eight sample tracks and instantly explore polyrhythms, shifting accents, offsets, swing, etc. Shape each sound with flexible controls, load your own samples, and transform simple pulses into organic, hypnotic rhythms that keep moving in unexpected ways.
FIELD KIT Playback Engine
Transform audio recordings into evolving textures, rhythms, and atmospheres. Create up to four independent playback windows with customizable speed, direction, and effects. Explore new sonic material from your recordings.
- Up to four independent playback windows
- Variable playback speed and direction
- Drive and filtering per window
- Routable modulation sources
- Save and recall .fieldkit files
- Standalone app and AUv3 Audio Unit
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FIELD KIT is an audio playback instrument built for turning recorded sound into evolving texture, rhythm, and atmosphere. Load an audio file and create up to four independent playback windows across the recording. Each window can move through a different section of the source with its own playback speed, direction, crossfade, drive, filtering, level, and pan. Use FIELD KIT to pull overlapping textures from long field recordings, transform environmental sound into ambient beds, create asynchronous loops, or find entirely new material hidden inside a recording. Three modulation sources can be routed independently across the playback windows, allowing parameters to drift, pulse, and evolve over time. Features include: - Up to four independent playback windows - Forward, reverse, and ping-pong playback - Variable playback speed - Adjustable loop crossfade - Drive and filtering per window - Independent level and pan controls - Three routable modulation sources - SPLICE for working with multiple audio sources - Save and recall .fieldkit files to share across platforms - Internal recording in Standalone mode - Standalone app and AUv3 Audio Unit - Host transport support in compatible AUv3 hosts FIELD KIT was designed around a simple idea: a recording doesn't have to be played from beginning to end. It can be a place to explore.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FIELD KIT Playback Engine at $9.99 against Orbita's $19.99. FIELD KIT Playback Engine also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 40%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Orbita's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Orbita costs $19.99 and FIELD KIT Playback Engine $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Orbita holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Orbita's written reviews are positive against 80% of FIELD KIT Playback Engine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Orbita ships an update monthly, FIELD KIT Playback Engine every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbita | FIELD KIT Playback Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $9.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #66 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AudioThing Ltd. | Field Tone Audio, LLC |
Customer experience
Orbita
FIELD KIT Playback Engine
In-app purchases
Orbita
No in-app purchases
FIELD KIT Playback Engine
No in-app purchases
Questions
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