Computer Music

Organised chaos

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To get a handle on just how massively impactful Orbitron can be, cycling through the series of effect and orbit-presets lays bare several characterf­ul aural cocktails. Crafted by a party of producers and sound designers, these presets are carefully assigned to categories that describe how they’re made. Solo consists of presets that use just one FX section (if you just need to use a simple chorus or phaser for instance). Using this type of preset disables the other FX sections to free up CPU. Multi has up to four FX sections of the same type to provide more lush, organic versions of these effects. Hybrid, as the name implies, jumbles up often quite different effect types which can result in some unpredicta­ble – but often mindblowin­g – textures.

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