Speaking of inspiration… Omnisphere is great for helping you to get the creative juices flowing. I’ve created my own folder just for this, and I always find myself going back to it when I need to find something for inspiration on a track I’m working on. It’s also really easy to save the patches you like, or the patches you’ve edited as favorites. You can also stack and layer multiple patches together if the single patches aren’t thick enough for you. Sure, you can still tweak to your heart’s content-using the on-board effects, envelope filters and such, but most of the time, I’ve found it’s not really necessary. And these are expensive sounding patches. With Omnisphere, you can dial up a factory patch and it sounds amazing right off the bat. One of the things I always look at when thinking about purchasing a new plug-in is “How easy is this thing to use, right out of the box?” I just don’t have time to sit there and tweak for hours until I find the right sound. Try the “Traditional” category, and play through some of the Vintage Guitars: These samples are pretty good, especially the baritones! I wouldn’t say they are believable enough to stand on their own, but mixed and embedded well within a track- they become quite credible.Įase of use? Check. There are a variety of sounds each categorized for convenience, like Keyboards, Strings & Pads, Synths, etc. You get traditional sounds as well, which leads nicely into the next paragraph…. Don’t get me wrong, the mod retro cutting nasal synth leads are there too, but This thing has everything, from Daniel Lanois-esque landscape baritone guitars with delay to fresh electronic arpeggiated blips with auto-pan. I had been under the impression that most of the patches would be ultra synthy-analogue sounding Nord Lead kind of sounds. However, as I noticed more and more of my composer friends casually mentioning it in their blogs- the more I became intrigued. I have a Virus TI 61 key synthesizer, so when Omnisphere came out, to be honest I wasn’t even interested in knowing about it. Sure, there are some cons, but as for bang for the buck, ($479 to be exact), with over 40GB of sounds, this synth plug-in is a great addition to your virtual instrument arsenal. Remember when you used to go in the music store and play a new keyboard for the first time, and it sounded so cool that you were really inspired, and wanted to spend 5 hours there just writing a song? And you ended up just buying the thing on the spot, without even thinking about if you could afford it or not? Spectrasonics Omnisphere synth plug-in (RTAS, VST, AU) for your DAW is that kind of instrument. Review by Jason Farnham (www jasonfarnham com)
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