Emu Planet Phatt

Released in 1996 and evolving out of the ongoing Proteus series of modules the Planet Phatt sought to cash in on Hip-hop flavours which obviously spilled into commercial chart sounds of the time.

The Planet Phatt sought to cash in on Hip-hop & RnB flavours which obviously spilled into commercial chart sounds of the time. What does it sound like? Think Grand Theft Auto 4 music basically, but there's some good sounds in there including on the money 90's flavoured drums, basses, synths, keyboards, ambient sounds, jazz brass licks & more.

Same specifications as the Orbit basically, with sounds delivered from an 8mb ROM sample chip, two samples per voice (Primary & Secondary), 17 filters including E-mu Z Plane, 32 note poly, 16-Bit with a 39kHz top end, 16 part multi-timbrel. The Planet Phatt delivered 481 Instruments across 640 presets (256 RAM, 384 ROM) & had the same 3 stereo outs & MIDI In, Out & Thru sockets as the Orbit.

The Planet Phatt is not too hard to find in the free ads & at a typical secondhand price of around £300 upwards it's an interesting Rompler that could add some wide variety of sounds to your hardware setup.