rivers88
Guess I know what will be eating up a lot of my free time over the next few weeks...

When I was watching something Eric Persing said, I think it was in the recent Omnisphere 2 intro but may have been elsewhere, he said their goal is to put a lifetime of unexplored sounds in their tools.  They are doing very well in that regard, even before Omnisphere 2 and their other updates are released.
 
Next few weeks sounds like an understatement.
One thing I would suggest to hustle things along is to visit pluginguru.com.  John there has some very helpful tutorials and walk-throughs that can really help accelerate learning it.

Yeah, "next few weeks" was probably a HUGE understatement.
(Especially since work, family, other hobbies tend to get a large part of my time...)
 
Appreciate the tips on the tutorials!

Sometimes, I feel a little sad when I look at my Kurzweil rack unit and remember how little it gets used nowadays. But don't unload that hardware synth just yet, Dan. It's still your best solution for zero-latency playing.
 
As much as I love Omnisphere, Kontakt and Zebra, I never play them in real time. Instead, I find a similar patch on one of my hardware synths and that's what I hear while recording MIDI. Not only is there no latency, there's also no CPU, memory or disk usage. That Roland module will never crash your DAW and never refuse to work because it thinks your license is invalid. It'll be compatible with every version of Windows and the C++ runtime library, no matter what Microsoft throws at you in the coming years. Best of all, it will never expect any more money from you.

I love a party with a happy Omnisphere.

bitflipper
Sometimes, I feel a little sad when I look at my Kurzweil rack unit and remember how little it gets used nowadays. But don't unload that hardware synth just yet, Dan. It's still your best solution for zero-latency playing.
 
As much as I love Omnisphere, Kontakt and Zebra, I never play them in real time. Instead, I find a similar patch on one of my hardware synths and that's what I hear while recording MIDI. Not only is there no latency, there's also no CPU, memory or disk usage. That Roland module will never crash your DAW and never refuse to work because it thinks your license is invalid. It'll be compatible with every version of Windows and the C++ runtime library, no matter what Microsoft throws at you in the coming years. Best of all, it will never expect any more money from you.

 
I power the rack up every time I am at my DAW. I do pretty much what you suggest and use the sounds from the racked instruments and (maybe) replace them later. It depends a lot on what I'm working on.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Very impressive. In addition to upgrading to Sonar Platinum, Omnisphere is the best investment I've made this year. It's going to take me years to go through the massive library of sounds and patches, but I'm really looking forward to the learning experience. 

Although the official release date is April 30th, it appears that JRRShop is shipping it now. And at a $20 discount over the official upgrade price.

Just got my ship notification from Sweetwater. YAY!

According to the countdown clock on their website, looks like it will be available at 9am PDT April 30

Well - I got Omnisphere 2 today... after some "jumping trough hoops (partly my own fault)"...
 
At first I was watching the countdown reaching zero... and that was it.. It stayed on zero and nothing happened. A few minutes later the website was refreshed, but no upgrade link...
 
"This will probably take juuuust an little time" I mumbled to myself, hoping I was right...
 
Well - it took some time, but better skip the word "little". You see - there was an upgrade button, but I got the message that I did not happen to have anything to update. Huh? I have Omnisphere, Trillian and Stylus RMX (jep I'm an VIP) registered in my account. What the......
 
Finally it was sorted out, and I could purchase Omni2 for the VIP price. After paying with PayPal, I was redirected to the site without any notice, and any idea what to do next. In my account downloads I had Omni 2, but only an install file - no updates. The Install file was only 164Mb, thus probably only the plugin. Well I went ahead and downloaded the file. The install procedure was short - very short. "Maybe the full upgrade will come after registering?" was my thought. So I went further and launched Sonar and indeed - I could launch Omni 2, and got the challenge/response, that went without hiccups. After re-starting Omni 2 it was indeed registered, but was missing all content!
 
Finally I got the bright idea to take an look at my mail, and there it was.. The link to the download program.. I resisted the urge to making an dent in the wall by banging my head against it (an strange need I always feel when I do something stupid), and downloaded and launched the program.
 
I am lucky to have an fairly nice download speed (120Mb/s), so the download of the (about) 18Gb went without any problem and took about 30 minutes. After that all that was left was installing and I was ready to "play around" with my brand new Omnisphere 2.
 
First impressions are very good, but I need some time to test out all the new improvements before I give an first opinion..

bjornpdx
Keep getting "Unable to connect"
 
Would all of you please get off the internet for the next half hour so I can get my software?  Thank you.

All done here.

Frustrated at the moment.  I have emailed them to find out what's up, but I believe I should get the free upgrade due to when I purchased Omni 1 (after 2 was announced).  I don't see anything in my account to indicate that I am eligible for the update, and to top things off, for some reason I don't get automatic emails from them.  i can get a response when I email their info address, but I didn't get confirmation when I first registered and have never once received any SPAM from them. (Checked my registered email at least 10 times and it's correct.)  I guess I'll just have to wait this out and see.

read this-
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3214728

Wow, next week??? That's going to piss some people off.
I still have not been able to download it. Been trying for about 11 hours. Wonder why they are having so many issues.

rtucker55
Can only imagine how much money they must have made today... I'll bet Eric is crack'in a cold one tonight!

He better be cracking the whip on his IT crew!  Then he can have ChillyPop.