Behold Omnisphere!

[hammerman]

So funny frankymax 'cause I just updated my Waves to V6 and installed Omnisphere yesterday without a hitch. And I didn't have an iLok before! Just Challenge/response for Waves V5 on my G5. My 'puter is showing its age a bit with Omnisohere though. Dual 2GHz G5 with 3.5 GB of RAM. It does work, but I don't know how many sounds I can play at once with this thing. I can easily run 5 or 6 instances of Atmosphere with everything else. I'll have to play with the settings.

Omnisphere is a sonic candy machine and Eric and his team are Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas.

How did they create such magic? Everything from the most beautiful sounds to the scariest. I see a new 'puter on the horizon...

[jlaudon]

I used Omnisphere today in an arrangement (pop), and WOW!!!!! - it was amazing, i was able to find, and also build the things I was looking, and it all sat nicely in the tune.

Awesome sounds, lots of variety. This is not your mother's Olds - and whoever mentioned that this was basically Atmosphere for Intel - there's WAY, WAY more to Omisphere than Atmos, and everything from small sounds to big sounds - there's lots of sound building blocks, and the browser to look for sounds and stuff is very well laid out.

I think I understand why Spectrasonics didn't do audio demos of this product - a few sounds wouldn't do justice to the incredible variety. I'm also a 'when Spectrasonics comes out with something new, I'll buy it without listening kind of guy', and I have yet to be disappointed

[danworks]

I'm looking for Omni to show up on my mailbox anytime soon. My only concern, is that it will draw another deep line as it happened with RMX & Atmo, and once again, everything will sound the same. Obviously I'm not blaming Spectra for this, but all those bunch of possibilities, it does spoil musicians to stop to research or create something "custom" for their own projects.

If you try to listen to any of the soundtrack of any of the major TV series out there - for example, it seems like they've been written and arranged by the very same person, which in this case is Eric Persing, the mind behind Spectra.

Just thinking loud ...

[hammerman]

Yeah, but it's always been like that. It's nothing new. We had the DX7 phase, the D-50 phase, the M-1 phase, etc...

What excites me about this beast (as I was going through the raw soundsources) is just how versatile it is and easy to program something FAST. Remember when synth's had only 8MB for raw sounds to work with? This has 40 GB. Just immense.

I do hear you about just using the factory patches and the "sameness" to a lot of music but that is human nature.

[musicarteca]

Yeah, but it's always been like that. It's nothing new. We had the DX7 phase, the D-50 phase, the M-1 phase, etc...

Wow man you are old! Don't worry I can still remember the Arp 2600 phase!

[davelee]

In my case it was the...

rhodes,hammond,clavinet, mini moog stage...

yikes...

I must be old!

[danworks]

Yeah, but it's always been like that. It's nothing new. We had the DX7 phase, the D-50 phase, the M-1 phase, etc...

Wow man you are old! Don't worry I can still remember the Arp 2600 phase!

That is correct, we had tons of track full of Fantasia or E.PIANO, but the part they were playing were - hopefully - different. With RMX you'll actually hear the same "drummer" doing the same fills on hundreds of different songs or the same soundtrack intro (hold one note and Atmo does the rest) on several different movies.

FWIW, I still have my Prophet 5 and a DK-Synergy, both w/MIDI retrofit

[carrythebanner]

Omnisphere is a sonic candy machine and Eric and his team are Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas.

How did they create such magic? Everything from the most beautiful sounds to the scariest.

Anything as scary as the boat scene in the '70s movie?

[David Polich]

Yeah, but it's always been like that. It's nothing new. We had the DX7 phase, the D-50 phase, the M-1 phase, etc...

Wow man you are old! Don't worry I can still remember the Arp 2600 phase!

That is correct, we had tons of track full of Fantasia or E.PIANO, but the part they were playing were - hopefully - different. With RMX you'll actually hear the same "drummer" doing the same fills on hundreds of different songs or the same soundtrack intro (hold one note and Atmo does the rest) on several different movies.

FWIW, I still have my Prophet 5 and a DK-Synergy, both w/MIDI retrofit

Wow - a Synergy! I loved that thing - you're lucky to still have one. It has a sound of its own, that's for sure. Cool-looking, too.

Hey, FWIW, D-50 Fantasia and Staccato heaven and all those other "over-used" D-50 sounds are now officially vintage and back in vogue.
Everything old is new again, as they say. I don't have my D-50 any longer, but I do have a V-Synth with the D-50 card. Another unique sound, especially for pads -
there's a cool "metallic graininess" to that sound. The Ensoniq's and the PPG Wave had the same sort of metallic/grainy character. I guess you'd call it "vintage digital".

[hammerman]

How about "Digital Native Dance"?

Funny thing is I think Eric designed a lot of those sounds!

[tripit@earthlink.net]

The phases that I lived through:
PPG 2.3
Prophet 5
OB-X
Matrix 12
D50
M1
Wavestation

Never owned a DX-7 though.

[musicarteca]

With RMX you'll actually hear the same "drummer" doing the same fills on hundreds of different songs or the same soundtrack intro (hold one note and Atmo does the rest) on several different movies.

Yes, those were the days that you actually had to be able to play an instrument.

[David Polich]

The phases that I lived through:
PPG 2.3
Prophet 5
OB-X
Matrix 12
D50
M1
Wavestation

Never owned a DX-7 though.

That's a synth collector's dream list (well, except maybe for the M1). Are they all gone now?

[Xzault]

just installed Omni and so far it is incredible, a job well done. the install went great no problems

[tripit@earthlink.net]

The phases that I lived through:
PPG 2.3
Prophet 5
OB-X
Matrix 12
D50
M1
Wavestation

Never owned a DX-7 though.

That's a synth collector's dream list (well, except maybe for the M1). Are they all gone now?

I have about half of them now. Over the years I have owned so many different ones, but I never had the space or desire to hang on to them all.
I also have Micromoog, SH-101, B3 with Leslie, Wurly, D6, Virus A, OBMX 8 voice and more.