Orion Platinum

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Orion Platinum is a music production suite developed by Synapse Audio Software.

The software supports all stages of music production, from composing/arranging music to mixing and mastering it. It includes multitrack audio recording, generators, effects and a mixing desk with sub busses. It supports both traditional linear sequencing and pattern-based sequencing. Supported external interfaces include VST, DX and ReWire. Audio output resolutions range from 16 Bit/44.1kHz up to 32 Bit/192 kHz, Stereo.

1 Features
- 1.1 Generators
2 External links

[edit] Features

[edit] Generators

Orion Platinum comes with the following internal generators (as of version 7):

[edit] Toxic III

Licensed by Maxx Claster

[edit] Toxic II

Licensed by Maxx Claster. Despite Toxic III being introduced in v7, Toxic II is still included.

[edit] Tomcat

[edit] Sampler

[edit] Ultran

[edit] Wasp XT

History

Wasps roots come from a free standalone software-synth, the TS-404. It was coded by Richard Hoffman (who is now the main driving force behind Synapse Audio), and was later licensed to Image-Line Software for FL Studio. The TS-404 was later developed into the first version of Wasp. Wasp was included in early versions Orion and also licensed to Image Line who sold it as an add on plugin for Fruity Loops and as a separate VSTi plugin.

Wasp was continually developed by Synapse Audio / Sonic Syndicate as part of Orion. A major update to Wasp, Wasp XT, was released with the first version of Orion Platinum in 2002. Image-Line didn't update their version of Wasp until FL Studio v6 was released in early 2006 (also changing the name to Wasp XT). It is not clear whether the later Image-Line version uses the same code as the Synapse-Audio version.