E-mu • Orbit 9090
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 they are a little harsh and 'tinny' but add a little 'verb and some delay and it sounds damn good! It is already being used by lots of techno artists around the world including Todd Terry, Roni Size, ATB, and Orbital.
The 9090 enables you to explore the presets and edit them to your liking, by combining two different sounds to make one, then adjusting the LFO, attack, delays, etc. etc. You can always go back and switch these settings.The filtering is pretty heavy and great for low-end bass; since it has a main output, and 4 sub outputs. For an old synth, I've been generating some dirty and modern sounding tones. The drums can be pretty frustrating at first, but once again just shape them to your liking. I use mine with Ableton 7 and am very pleased with the results, especially since this is my first rack-mount synth. You can't go wrong for the price! Hope this is helpful...
Thanks FEZ
It is good for NEW original sounds which is what "NEW" instruments should do.