Description | The Orbit is first in E-mu's new line of dance modules. This is strictly engineered for the techno artist. It has 8 MB of samples of all the great vintage analog sounds plus many familiar and typical sounds used in house, hip hop, trance, and techno.
It includes an essential digital VCF-like filter that is (on many presets) usually controlled from the modulation wheel on your keyboard controller! It's great for filling tracks with lush sweeping pads, or trancing along a 303 bassline pattern and filtering away. It is a beautiful golden single-space rack unit with a big easy to read LCD. Its sounds are, well they're digital so some say they are a little harsh and 'tinny' but add a little 'verb and some delay and it sounds damn good!
Orbit features 32 voices of polyphony, 512 presets (256 ROM, 256 RAM), and is 16 part multi-timbral. Edit and tweak Orbit’s sounds the way you like them by using its powerful filters, MIDI synced LFO’s, and MIDIpatch modulation system. If that’s not enough, Orbit is equipped with plenty of user-editable “beats”. These drum loops aren’t going to sound like everybody else, Orbit gives you the flexibility to alter them to fit your style.
Orbit also gives you the ability to literally take these sounds apart and reassemble them into a limitless number of entirely new sounds, combining parts of one sound with another or with any of a selection of digital waveforms also stored in ROM. The dynamic multimode and morphing filters allow you to shape and mold your sound into new dimensions. And creating your own sounds is easy, thanks to Orbit's logical user interface.
Other features include 3 stereo outputs for individually processing sounds (also configurable as 6 polyphonic submixes with fully programmable dynamic panning), integral sends and returns to allow the addition of external effects units without the need for a separate mixer, user definable alternate tuning, and of course, an extensive MIDI implementation.
In addition, when coupled with E-mu's Launchpad Performance Controller, Orbit becomes a self-contained interactive groove machine for the stage or studio. So check it out.
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