ORBIT Black Friday Deal 2026: $99.50, 50% off

ORBIT Black Friday pricing sits at $99.50, 50% off, until Nov 27, 2026, on Wide Blue Sound's Kontakt instrument for building synths, pulses and atmospheric textures.

The maker calls its Orbital Synthesis engine the heart of the instrument. It morphs between four sound sources to produce tonal pulses, hybrid rhythms and dreamy beds that keep evolving over time.

What does the ORBIT Kontakt instrument do?

ORBIT has four Orbits, and each one picks from 101 sounds in its selector menu. Gain, Pan, Tune, Cut and Resonance shape each Orbit.

Hold ALT while turning a knob and the move applies relatively across all four Orbits at once.

The maker pitches it at fast cinematic synths and atmospheric textures, from dreamy to mysterious to dark.

How do the three engines work?

Three rhythmic engines sit under the hood:

• Pulse: each Orbit starts at full volume before the next one begins, driven by a sawtooth LFO
• Chop: rhythmic slices of sound from a pulse-wave LFO
• Flow: pads and textures

You can morph between the modes in time using the sequencer.

Rate sets the length of each Orbit rotation and is clocked to your DAW. Depth sets how much pulse feeds each Orbit, and Punch controls how hard the Pulse hits. In Chop mode that same control is called Gate.

Attack and Release shape the main volume envelope.

Which tools speed up sound design?

Four buttons help you get moving quickly:

• Clone copies the settings of Orbit 1 to the other three Orbits, for the most stable sound possible
• Random assigns new sound sources to all four Orbits without touching other settings
• Cmd or Ctrl plus click on Random also randomizes the main Orbit controls
• Waves steps all four Orbits to the previous or next source, so you can audition new sounds while keeping some matched

Each Moon works as a mute button. Cmd or Ctrl plus click on one solos it, and the arrows swap Orbit positions in the playback sequence.

Effects and sequencers

The effects page covers delays, multiple modulations and several distortions. It also has a convolution engine with creative impulses and reverbs taken from hardware units common in cinematic production.

Four independent sequencers modulate 24 parameters. Each has its own playback rate and runs up to 64 steps. You can generate new patterns automatically or process existing ones, then play them forward, in reverse, both ways or at random.

Requirements

ORBIT needs Kontakt or Kontakt Player 5.6.6 or higher and runs on PC and Mac. The maker says it works with the free Kontakt Player.

NKS support covers KOMPLETE KONTROL S-Series keyboards and MASCHINE hardware.