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.

17 VISITOR COMMENTS

G. Urmel Dähn

January 26, 2012 @ 11:50 am

i got mine just a few days ago and 'll it use as a classical-style synth, not as a sampler. its capable to produce these vintage sounds and thats all i need! ;-)

Netm8kr

December 21, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

I just picked one of these up off Ebay for less than $100. It has tested out great so far. This unit will make a great addition to my "ever"growing home studio.

Peace...Netm8kr

Pablo

November 10, 2011 @ 9:49 pm

An Orbit 9090 was used for Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar :)

Ben

October 1, 2011 @ 11:05 am

Just for the record, the estimated value on here is grossly overestimated....these seem to go in the $150-$250 range currently (more in the $150 range than $250).

Felipe

May 18, 2011 @ 4:56 pm

Weeeee!! Got it by chance for €88 a couple days ago, mint condition. I've had the time of my life checking the presets as some of them are great and others are laughable.... well as with most other synth's presets. Will be a nice challenge to get the best of it. Receives midi cc to most parameters, the (many)drums are fairly cool, it gets along very well with a hardware sequencer and it's six outputs are a blessing. so far it's a very funny synth!

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