Great Omnisphere Tips Video

For those of you who've already been through all 8000+ presets and are ready to dig a little deeper into Omnisphere. There's more to this synthesizer than meets the eye, hard as that may seem to believe given the impressive array of immediately apparent bells 'n whistles.
 
I've been digging into the synth for a few months now and was pretty proud of myself when I managed to make a few useful patches from scratch. But this guy's a sound designer and creator of commercial Omnisphere patch libraries, and I definitely learned some new tricks from this video. 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQzASPMapQ&feature=youtu.be
 
 
 

I watched the first half of this yesterday and it's terrific.  The first Groove 3 series I ever watched was the Omnisphere tutorial series.  While thorough, the author didn't come anywhere close to getting me excited about this instrument than this free 90 minute whirlwind tour has done.
 
One of my main disappointments about Omnisphere is the documentation.  I dearly wish they had a detailed PDF manual that I could read off-line.  Videos are a wonderful augmentation to documentation, but they aren't sufficient by themselves.  If you forget one small point, you can't go back and just look it up.  You have to watch a bunch of video you don't need just to get to the one kernel of information you're looking for.  This is clearly a very deep instrument and needs correspondingly comprehensive documentation, IMO.

dmbaer
One of my main disappointments about Omnisphere is the documentation.  I dearly wish they had a detailed PDF manual that I could read off-line. 

 
In the Utilities drop down, the Reference Guide is a pretty good summary of the components.
 

I think as a strategy to be productive it's probably really wise to pick a few great tools and learn them well and in depth.

Like instead of roaming from one DAW to another (who has that kind of money anyway?), just pick a great one and learn it cold. Like learn Sonar Producer and learn it well so you can really motor when putting your songs together.

Similarly, if wanting a synth, pick a few great ones, like Omnisphere, and learn it well.

It would probably save a fortune in small change and a fortune in wasted time by not getting distracted by the appeal of promos on lesser capable synths.

But I'm not wise, and I have been distracted. More and more as I learn it further, I kick myself when I open Omnisphere and realize afresh how great it is for getting creative.

Lyle Mayes and the Weather Report drummer have a couple of videos (for Spectrasonics), although they're using Trilogy as a focus too.  Lyle did some fretless bass compositions off the cuff,...with a slight pno/omni pad at times...., that made me realize how good something like these synths can sound in knowledged hands.  Lyle's music (as Pat Metheny's too) is pretty much over my head, so I am *forced* to just listen and enjoy it.  I've always wanted to be a great singer 1st...but listening to Lyle makes me desire to be that level as a musician.  However besides practicing, those guys have heads on their shoulders that can explain every note that they're doing.
 
Will have to sit and watch this new unseen vid tonight... thx for the tip!  I presume you're talking about Eric Pershing.  I've got basically all Roland stuff in my studio.

paulo
the ......"he's actually from Denmark or some European country" comment doesn't really show him in a great light, but I always treat some Bitflipper derived info as something worth paying attention to, so I will let that slide for now. ;)

Who said that? The creator/narrator is a Yank, currently based in Portland, Oregon.