User Guide

3Chapter 1: Basic Setup

INTRODUCTION

ORBITING THE DANCE PLANET - V2

The Dance Planet is a cool place to be. With over 600 of the earth’s

most cutting edge samples and the introduction of new rhythmic

features, Orbit V2 blasts its way to the forefront as the dance music

machine.

Orbit features 32 voices of polyphony, 640 presets (384 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 pro-

grammable 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 Control-

ler, Orbit becomes a self-contained interactive groove machine for the

stage or studio. Check it out.

All of us at E-mu hope you have as much fun making music with Orbit

as we had making it. And we can't wait to hear the music YOU make

using it.

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VOLUME

EDITMASTER

BEATS

CURSOR

HOME/ENTER

DATA

POWER

MIDI

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