declan
This may belong in the coffee house, but there was a lot Eric Persing says here about innovation that's unabashedly honest.  Almost scary. http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/spectrasonics-eric-persing-talks-omnisphere-2-sound-design-and-more-616236
 
 

Definitely belongs here... thanks, declan... full of great stuff...might warrant a separate post in software as it might get buried in this thread.  Eric's details of both O2 and other things is really a nice read.

As a Omnisphere + trillian + bob Moog tribute , i asked if i could have a upgarde potion : no get stylus !!
 
weird lol i own maschine studio +all expansions, battery , K9 ultimate +ez drummer ect .... i'm just covered for drums !! and percu (motu ethno 2 also !)  
 
Strange as a guy that only own omni is the same as one that spent double the price ...

Zo - just go get Stylus RMX.  the grooves etc are worth it.  I like it much better than my Maschine expansions AND Stylus RMX can be used as a plugin IN Maschine, it's a win win.
 
I have 9 or 10 expansions for Maschine and I really don't use them.  I do use Stylus RMX in Maschine, it's kinda cool.

Read that interview with Eric P. last night (there was a link on his FaceBook page).
 
best part was the end of the article, made me happy to at least hear Eric address what's next:
 
What's next for Spectrasonics?
"We're super excited to have a lot of things in the works. We've got things in the works for Trilian, and also RMX - we haven't forgotten about rhythm! - so there's a long future for all the things we do. And there'll be new instruments, too - not just the three we've done, but new ones."
 
hopefully 2015 is going to be a good year for Spectrasonics.

Got stylus installed last night. Looking forward to digging into it!

MachineClaw
Zo - just go get Stylus RMX.  the grooves etc are worth it.  I like it much better than my Maschine expansions AND Stylus RMX can be used as a plugin IN Maschine, it's a win win.
 
I have 9 or 10 expansions for Maschine and I really don't use them.  I do use Stylus RMX in Maschine, it's kinda cool.

I never use loops ...that's the thing /....

"This categorisation takes us years of full-time staff debating over each sound… "Is this 'nightmarish', or is it more 'dreamlike', or both?". It's entirely subjective, and yet not. If subjective had no meaning, then all art would be pointless, right?! We relate to things because of subjective choices made by a director or an artist, so there are universal things, which is why there are scary movies - subjectively scary, but still scary movies!"

And that's why I love presets.

What's next for Spectrasonics?

"We're super excited to have a lot of things in the works. We've got things in the works for Trilian, and also RMX - we haven't forgotten about rhythm! - so there's a long future for all the things we do. And there'll be new instruments, too - not just the three we've done, but new ones."

Nice!

Looks amazing, I can't wait.

• More than 3,000 New patches and soundsources from acclaimed Spectrasonics Sound Design Team
• New Omnisphere EDM library with cutting-edge, modern sounds
• New Exclusive Soundsources from Diego Stocco's Custom Built Instruments
• New category of Phrase-based Soundsources for granular synthesis
• Hundreds of new Circuit Bent Soundsources
• Many Innovative new Psychoacoustic Soundsources
• New Melodic Cave Stalactites Soundsources

Thanks for the heads up!
 

I just took the plunge -
Picked up v1.5 from Sweetwater, and already anxiously waiting the 2.0 upgrade!
 
Holy cow, that synth uses a LOT of data -
even with SSD's for my OS and sample drives, it still took well over an hour to do the install, and over 42GB used on the sample drive!
 
But, so far it appears that presets seem to load VERY quickly inside Sonar ~
cool stuff!
 
Guess I know what will be eating up a lot of my free time over the next few weeks...