Famed Dutch sound designer/programmer Rob Papen has developed a 64 MB Electronica soundset specifically for E-MU's new Orbit 3 module, featuring a versatile palette of sounds for the Electronica/Dance artist. From fat analog synth patches to "in your face" acoustic dance kits and percussion, Orbit 3 offers the freshest and most diverse dance sounds available anywhere. "Rob Papen has delivered a soundset for the Orbit 3 that not only covers all of the standard sounds needed to create today's dance productions, but also provides artists with an arsenal of eclectic sounds to add new dimension to their tracks," states Sean Wilhelmsen, Director of Product Planning. "The combination of Rob Papen's soundset and E-MU's legendary synthesis and filter technologies makes Orbit 3 one of the most powerful and flexible dance synths ever created," he adds.

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Orbit 3 offers users powerful synth architecture

E-MU's Orbit sound module was one of the best selling sound modules and the next generation Orbit 3 offers performers, producers, and composers of Electronica and other dance music styles much more features than ever before. 128 voice polyphony, digital I/O, the ability to route individual sounds to any of six independent audio outputs, and the expandability of being able to add any of the current family of 11 E-MU expansion ROM's, (or utilize any E4 Ultra sampler to create custom ROM's), and fill up the two additional internal expansion slots for a total of 128 MB of onboard sounds combine to truly make this a "Super Synth".

Super Beats mode consists of multi-layered sequences that users can interact with to create one-of-a-kind performances. By manipulating the front panel, real-time controller knobs, different aspects of a groove or rhythm pattern can be accentuated or muted. Also, different instrumental parts can be added to the sequence while envelopes, filter sweeps and even transpositions of different instruments can all take place in real time, creating dense layers of music. All of this information is sent out through the MIDI output and can be recorded by an external sequencer.