OT: Omnisphere

Just got this;

Greetings from Spectrasonics!


We wanted to let you know that on September 15th, we are releasing our eagerly-awaited new Omnisphereâ„¢ power synth!

This is the most epic product in the history of Spectrasonics, and so we are really excited to make it available to our users next week.

You'll be receiving another email from us on the 15th with more product information and details, but we wanted to make sure that all our Atmosphere customers were aware of the special upgrade we will be offering.

Some key information about the Omnisphere upgrade:

1. All Atmosphere customers are eligible to upgrade to Omnisphere

2. The upgrade will be available exclusively through the Spectrasonics website

3. Upgrade ordering opens on September 15th

4. Complete information about upgrade pricing and all the product details will be announced on September 15th

Until then, you can find out more about this highly-anticipated, Spectrasonics instrument at our special Omnisphere Teaser site:

http://www.spectrasonics.net/omnisphere_teaser/

And don't miss the Omnisphere Preview video episodes:

http://www.spectrasonics.net/omnisphere_teaser/explore.html

Looking forward to Monday! :-)

The Spectrasonics Team

it seems the time of year where all the companies want me to "part with my money" season

the list is numerous , but alas my cash isn't

I'll almost certainly buy this right away unless the upgrade price is more than $299 for Atmosphere users. I have Trilogy as well and I'm almost tempted to get Stylus RMX now so I can qualify for the higher discount but we'll see what the prices are like.

$249 is a nice price for Atmosphere users - I ordered right away. I could have essentially gotten Omnisphere and Stylus RMX for $550 together but I don't if I'll have much use for Stylus right now so I just went with the upgrade only.

cool!!

Thanks for posting these, Creator. Nice sounds indeed.

Been trying to talk myself out of buying Omnisphere. I have Atmosphere and have always believed it's all I would ever need. But everything I've read and seen about this new beast has me foaming at the mouth. And with the discount, it's really hard not to reach for the wallet.

New toys . . .

Well, I'm installing mine at the mo. Man, it takes a long, long time. It says in the instructions to be patient as each disk can take 45 mins to install. They are not exagerating. I'm sure the first disk has taken longer than that! I recon at this rate it will take me about 6 or more hours to install!

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Well, I'm installing mine at the mo. Man, it takes a long, long time. It says in the instructions to be patient as each disk can take 45 mins to install. They are not exagerating. I'm sure the first disk has taken longer than that! I recon at this rate it will take me about 6 or more hours to install!

I just got Kontakt last month and I thought that was a bear to install - took about 3 hours. But this is the kind of pain that's fun to endure!

I'm getting CPU spikes, audio dropouts (plugin stops making sound altogether) and clicks/pops..yes I have all the updates. I have a Q6600 and 4 gigs of RAM. I'm hoping that the next update will address this pronto.

Yeah, I get that as well. I'm using XP with the 3 gig switch activated. Turning off the multiprocessor engine helps a little bit, but not entirely.

Are those XP tips on their website anywhere or are they included with the Omni packaging? I've done some tweaking to my machine, but I'm always open to looking under more rocks if it'll help performance.

Omnisphere is a very large peice of software isn't it? Does it install on your D drive with the other sample libraries or a combination of C and D?

How's it working with Sonar? Are you using Midi to trigger it? I looked at it today again, very nice looking synth, 50 Gb! and $500 smackers. All I want is the guitars at present.

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ORIGINAL: Crg

Omnisphere is a very large peice of software isn't it? Does it install on your D drive with the other sample libraries or a combination of C and D?

You can tell it where to place the 40+GB sound library. Mine's on my G:drive, which is a 1TB drive dedicated to sounds, samples, etc.

Works really well on my rig (I'm still on Sonar 6.2.1). Out of the box there are some hiccups; some patches wouldn't load. But Spectrasonics was very quick to patch these issues. And with those patches in place it's sounding terrific. Can't wait to delve fully into it. I've already augmented some of my older projects with this thing. Neato.

Occasionally I get clicks when I press and release the keys on my MIDI keyboard while playing Omnisphere. Not major but sorta annoying. Thankfully, the clicks only happen when I'm playing and not during playback or after the sounds have been bounced. Still, I hope they address this just for the sake of making this thing perfect!