^^^ what they said.

JonD
...I gave up eating and sleeping, and scrolled through all the patches in five days time.

 
I spent a week going through patches when I first got it, gave up about halfway through. Even if I had managed to audition them all, it wasn't long afterward they came out with v. 1.5 which added 780 new ones. Then came v. 2 with 400 new waveforms and 4,000 new patches. And I just added 1,200 more a couple weeks ago when I installed the Keyscape Creative collection. That's over 13,000 factory patches at last count.

bitflipper

JonD
...I gave up eating and sleeping, and scrolled through all the patches in five days time.

I spent a week going through patches when I first got it, gave up about halfway through. .. And I just added 1,200 more a couple weeks ago ... That's over 13,000 factory patches at last count.

It's like the Amazon jungle in there!  Lots to explore.  You'll never make it out alive.

making use of the browser ranking system and annotating things to build your own particular corner of nirvana is a valuable exercise.  Multi building is an entire journey into personal ecstasy ... you will never risk sounding like anything else!  This is particularly true as you can build cross libraries... drawing from the entire range of resources you accumulate, and apply things like arps and customized effects to different elements of the sounds you're toying with...  Each step along the way you can tweak and modulate in so many directions that what I've said before rapidly becomes appreciated... that you can spend your entire life creating  the most mindbendingly eloquent music with your own personal touch with this platform alone...
 
This is NOT intimidating at all...You don't have to go there at all!  However, try building a multi and you'll be hooked...  once you begin to become comfortable with the very logically designed GUI, you'll be in a playground you'll love and/or can ignore...And falling to sleep learning to make passionate love to this creature, by absorbing Skippy's zillion vids, is way better than any TV besides The Expanse!
 
This really is the most lovely creature in my 6+ very substantial hard drives... 

emeraldsoul
I have Omnisphere I but I didn't upgrade to the Deuce. I think it's like $150 - does it really have more amazing stuff worth the $150?
 
Or if I need the modern synth/trance/elec drum stuff, would I be better off buying sylenth or such?
 
Or am I getting too old for this?
 
-Tom

Oh, tom... you MUST upgrade... it is unbelievably more advanced and includes a huge library expansion of uber awesomeness...And EASIER to go from A to B, lock features while exploring others, and abilities in general are greatly expanded. New effects are mindblowing and the best in class.  So many features that... well... Skippy has vids when O2 was coming out which you should view and it is without a doubt it is the BEST $150 you can spend (unless you're starving and near death).  I own most synth/trance/drum stuff and wouldn't trade the O2 upgrade for all of them,
 
 
A Bit of info from Skippy synth/editing/more
Another Guru vid on O2 enhancements effects/arps/multi's/and more
 
Suffice it to say, every O2 vid after it's release continues to explore and expand on new things, how to's and believe me....
 
"YOU ARE NOT GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS!!!!" 
 

Follow the V-man and upgrade! I got into this at 52.

nirvana...ecstasy...mindblowing...uber awesomeness...best in class...don't hold back, Dana. Tell us how you really feel.

Commenting to follow. I still don't have Omnisphere 2!

Don. Not you!