For someone who used to lug a B3, Suitcase Rhodes, Clavinet, Wurlitzer A200, Mellotron and ARP 2600 to every frickin gig this stuff is like I've died and gone to heaven.  I still sometimes shake my head in wonderment at everything that resides inside that small box that sits just below my keyboard controller.
 

yorolpal
For someone who used to lug a B3, Suitcase Rhodes, Clavinet, Wurlitzer A200, Mellotron and ARP 2600 to every frickin gig this stuff is like I've died and gone to heaven.  I still sometimes shake my head in wonderment at everything that resides inside that small box that sits just below my keyboard controller.
 

Not to mention Spectrasonics quality. This will surely allow goosebumps for people playing it, or cheating and playing back via EZKeys patterns they've cobbled together. I perceive this will be a home run - especially over time - for the Spectrasonics team and for musicians that eventually (sooner or later) pick it up.

I was dubious, but now I'm not. It looks great.

Anyone who does not get this has totally missed the point.  This is a serious virtual instrument and like all things Spectrasonics it is of the highest quality and worth every cent actually.  That amount of money is nothing compared to the ten years of research rebuilding and sampling of those amazing instruments.
 
Oh and the real issue in the video is the amazing playing of all those beautiful players.  That is where the magic is.  It actually has nothing to do with the synth in reality.  If any of those guys played any keyboard it would be just as jaw dropping.  But yes this does save a lot of carrying around!
 
Just the old Frank Gambale story, even when Frank plays a $100 guitar it is also jaw dropping.  Better than any guitarist I have heard here (by a million miles) or anywhere in fact playing a $10,000 instrument!
 
 

A wonderful creation and very impressive. I'm quite certain many will find this to be perfect for their needs. Eric and his team are giants in the business... this IS an amazing and lovingly crafted creation.... the video ooooozed honest amazement of greats about what they were experiencing... and all for a few duckets!  I mean, really...  and I am quite sure that this will become the go to thing for all the giants, commercial producers on tight schedules, and newbee's wanting a well rounded kit.

Me, not so much... After discovering Omnisphere 16 years ago I immediately bought the whole kit and kabooodle... but of the three, I have to admit really only using Omnisphere 99% of the time these days... and much of THAT is due to the work of Skippy and a few others putting in the time to remake O2 with every set of patches/programs...It is their efforts which keep me exploring the depths of O2 when coming up with a new song idea...they constantly innovate and create exciting soundscapes which inspire what I do as much as the subjects I write about.

This is very like Trillian, a beautiful creation, which now sits on my hard drive and awaits my time but never really gets it... I generally use Orange Tree's basses; I explore elsewhere for the other elements/sysnths basses... for what I incorporate into my songs, for whatever reason... maybe it's that I've amassed toooo much over the years that Trillian gets lost in the clutter...I have toooooo much.  and to add more of the same doesn't excite me,

It reflects the diversity and proclivity of users that some will find this indispensable and others won't.  Part of me wishes I could play and respond like them, but the largest part of me says, "meh"... I'm meandering a different path. I wouldn't trade places for all the vst's in the universe.

That aside, VERY IMPRESSIVE!!! 

 

Dang. Saw the vid. I want dis.

Lol did i seen a drunking hunty and a sherman tank in the forum ?

I was about to jump on heavyocity sale when i heard the new ... Gas transfert : ok

My uvi keys wasn t that bad

rtucker55
Five years ago I wouldn't have thought twice about the purchase.

Same here but I have been collecting vintage keyboard libraries for Kontakt, and things like the Arturia V collection so now almost every base is covered. This one may do them better but over the 10 years this was in the making I have slaked my thirst.

TerraSin
 
Overall, I see the R&B and Worship communities benefiting the most from the core set and they will eat it up. Those are both multi-million dollar communities so those alone will likely cover the investment of the product Spectrasonics put into it.

 
It;s funny, I was just watching the homerecordingrevolution youtube video and mentioned a piece for church. I watch a lot of videos on chord voicing, or drum technique to help my midi recording, and so many times they'll talk about a when playing in church. It made me realise how many musicians in the US are church players or goers. So see what you mean, that must be a massive market.
 
I can't imagine a British person talking about church on a youtube video, unless they were talking about classical playing.

Its not just in the US, one of the local churches here recently purchased a Yamaha C5 grand, and I am in small rural town that pushes the boundaries of being a city.
 
We think it was an attempt to draw interest back into the church, as church's here were very stiff dry places for most of my life, the sort of place you avoided as they were so miserably boring.

Sorry I didn't mean that there wasn't an interst from church communities outside the US, just thay hoe often Church is mentioned in music engineering and playing videos has made me realse how big that market could be.