But let's start at the beginning: Orbit The Dance Planet's sounds were created by the world's top sound designers. These talented individuals spent thousands of hours sampling, researching and ultimately creating Orbit's tremendous sound set. You'll hear deep, pulsating basses and melodic, ambient pads along with awesome drums and other percussion, take-no-prisoners synths and effects plus various hits, all of which were put together to be the ideal sound set for dance music. In Beats mode, you can change any onboard groove's tempo and transposition, as well as do your own custom "orchestration" by altering any of the preset sounds. This allows users to really interact with Orbit's powerful synth functions. Of course, if you just want to plug-in and play, Orbit's ready to go right out of the box.
Filters are an integral part of dance music and E-mu's 32 6-pole filters give you awesome control over the machine's 32 voices of polyphony, 8 megs of sounds and 512 presets. There are actually 16 filter types including low and high pass, band-pass, phaser, flanger, EQ and powerful Morphing, all controllable in real time for complete expressiveness. Of course, it's also 16-part multitimbral and comes with six polyphonic outputs. Check this thing out!
Despite the fact that there was probably a lot of dancing going on in the E-mu building during development of the Orbit module, the engineers and product designers still found the time to build a 76-note (six-octave) keyboard version of their highly-acclaimed Emulator Four digital sampler. It's called (again oddly enough) the Emulator 4 Keyboard (or E4K for short). Sporting a whopping 128 voices of polyphony (on the model 6901 - 64-voices on the model 6900), the ability to drop in up to 128 megs of sample memory (four megs come standard with each unit), eight +4dBu outputs, a 270MB internal hard drive (loaded with over 150 megs of new samples), digital ins and outs, 18-bit D/A converters and more. But to top it all off there's an amazingly versatile new 18-bit stereo dual effects processor onboard with over 40 great-sounding reverbs and over 20 superb chorus/flange/delay algorithms.
With internal 24-bit precision, the E4K has eliminated the aliasing and clock noise often associated with samplers, particularly when samples are transposed up or down. Also remarkable is the company's new SoundSprint technology which allows you to load and browse banks of sound in mere seconds - yes, seconds! List prices for the E4K begin at $3995, but you'll want to call your Sweetwater sales engineer right away for your special low price on this outstanding sampler, plus additional information on the E4K or the innovative Orbit module.