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. 

bitflipper

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.

+1 Bit
 
It's such a great instrument and looks like it's getting even better.

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.

I love Specs' stuff, but am continually disappointed that there are no public forums to discuss/share/solve etc.
 
I have been subtly pushing them to set some up for the past few years, but alas nothing as yet.  Whilst I can understand their reticence at getting involved with the unwashed masses (AKA managing and moderating a public forum), their products are so deep and complex that a place to go to seek advice and help from more experienced users would be of great benefit (to all parties).
 
Having said that, they've always been very responsive and helpful to email inquiries, but I always feel a bit guilty about hassling them over relatively trivial points that I would normally use a public forum for.

Just got my ship notification from Sweetwater. YAY!

2 more days! :D

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

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

Right now they're getting slashdotted. It took 5 minutes to get there.

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..

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.