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.

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

Good luck with that, rivers88. I'm in my 4th year as an Omnisphere user and still finding stuff I didn't know was in there.

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!

Omnisphere is really great. It single-handedly converted me into a soft-synth believer. It has pretty much replaced all of my Roland JV rack gear, which I am somewhat sad about, lol.
 
Regards,
Dan

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.

jeffb63

lawajava
Already my favorite plug-in/VST of the whole lot of things out there

Agreed. Omnisphere was the best thing I bought since Atmosphere (Spectrasonics, not Russ Abbot!)

What a tune!

I love a party with a happy Omnisphere.

I just bought Omnisphere yesterday at Guitar Center. Can't wait for the free upgrade to Omni 2. 10,000 more sounds and some excellent new features too. Friggin' AWESOME!!

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
 

Geo524
I just bought Omnisphere yesterday at Guitar Center. Can't wait for the free upgrade to Omni 2. 10,000 more sounds and some excellent new features too. Friggin' AWESOME!!

With V2 there will be a total of over 10,000 sounds, but that includes 2000 new soundsources so that will be interesting. 
 
I don't know how how much of the Omnisphere/Trilian library I've gone through, but certainly not all of it.  So I am excited about the new soundmatch & the ability to "lock" in certain parameters while browsing because it really should make the library easier to use on the fly.