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ORBIT Expander: APEX Black Friday pricing is 51% off, which brings this expansion pack for Wide Blue Sound ORBIT to $19 until Nov 27, 2026.
APEX is an add-on sound pack, not a standalone instrument. It adds 80 patches to ORBIT.
Wide Blue Sound describes APEX as vast, surreal and brilliant, with a sense of awe that can sit in any production.
The maker says it took inspiration from electronic cinematic artists Tycho, Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Hopkins and Boards of Canada.
The 80 patches centre on three types of sound:
The maker's aim is to bring emotion to your listeners, and those three categories are where it does that.
If you want a quick way to fill out a cinematic electronic arrangement inside ORBIT, the pad and lead patches are the obvious place to start.
APEX requires a copy of Wide Blue Sound ORBIT in order to work. Without ORBIT loaded in your signal chain, the patches have nothing to play them.
If you already run ORBIT, this ORBIT expansion pack slots straight into the instrument you know. The patches belong to the ORBIT plugin, so they load and play from within it like any other preset.
Yes. The ORBIT Expander: APEX Black Friday deal is 51% off, bringing the pack to $19, and the offer ends Nov 27, 2026. It is an expansion pack for Wide Blue Sound ORBIT.
It includes 80 patches for ORBIT. The maker describes them as vibrant pads, emotional leads and provocative pulses, inspired by Tycho, Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Hopkins and Boards of Canada.
Yes. The maker states that APEX requires a copy of Wide Blue Sound ORBIT in order to work. It is an expansion pack for that instrument, not a standalone plugin.
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