Orion is a music production suite developed by Synapse Audio Software

Synapse Audio Software

is a software company located in Germany. Previously known as Sonic Syndicate and headed by Richard Hoffman they develop music production software for the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows platforms...

 for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

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The software

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

 supports all stages of music production, from composing and arranging music to mixing and mastering

Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

. Its features include multitrack audio recording

Multitrack recording

Multitrack recording is a method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole...

, audio generation, audio effects, and a mixing desk with sub busses. It supports both traditional linear sequencing and pattern-based sequencing. Supported external interfaces include VST

Virtual Studio Technology

Steinberg's Virtual Studio Technology is an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional recording studio hardware with software...

, DirectX

DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...

, and ReWire

ReWire

ReWire is a software protocol, jointly developed by Propellerhead and Steinberg, allowing remote control and data transfer among digital audio editing and related software...

. Audio output resolutions range from 16 bit/44.1 kHz to 32 bit/192 kHz, Stereo.

Generators

Orion comes with the following internal generators (as of version 8.02):

• Pro-9http://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-pro9.php
• Acoustic Grandhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-piano.php
• Toxic IIIhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-toxic3.php
• Toxic IIhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-toxic.php
• Tomcathttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-tomcat.php
• Samplerhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-sampler.php
• Ultranhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-ultran.php
• Wasp XThttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-wasp.php
• Drumshttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-drums.php
• Monobasshttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-monobass.php
• XR-909http://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-xr909.php
• Wavefusionhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-wave.php
• Screamerhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-screamer.php
• Plucked Stringhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-plucked.php
• MIDI Outhttp://www.synapse-audio.com/gen-midi.php

External links

• Orion