As I said before, the filters sound plastic, the oscillators don’t have a lot of body, the FM and AM is god awful, the unison sounds very one dimensional and cold and the granular is just bad and doesn’t give me any musicality out of it. That being said, as far as its sound when it comes to the DSP driven synthesis, im not very impressed.
Things I like about it are its gorgeous samples, its depth of modulation capabilities, its massive fx and filter section and its arpeggiator. Ive spent a lot of time with Omnisphere and Omnisphere 2. They also shared a video introduction to Hardware Synth Integration: The new Hardware Synth Profiles added in v2.6 include:
#HOW BIG IS OMNISPHERE 2 UPDATE#
Notably, the update takes Persing’s classic sound design work from the original 1987 Roland D-50 into completely new sonic territory with Omnisphere’s vast synthesis capabilities. Omnisphere 2.6 features a newly expanded “Hardware Library” with 600 new patches created by Eric Persing and the acclaimed Spectrasonics Sound Development team.
The supported hardware synths cover a wide array of form factors and price ranges for different types of users. With the new 2.6 release, many requested hardware synth profiles have been added, including support for over 65 popular hardware synthesizers from Moog®, Sequential®, Roland®, Korg®, Novation®, Nord®, Behringer®, Access®, Studiologic® and Yamaha®.
#HOW BIG IS OMNISPHERE 2 SOFTWARE#
Omnisphere’s ground-breaking Hardware Synth Integration feature bridges the physical experience gap between software and hardware, giving users intuitive control of Omnisphere by using the familiar layout of their hardware synth. Best of all, Omnisphere 2.6 can now capture the MIDI data of the arpeggiator as a standard MIDI file, which can be dragged to any DAW for further editing! Also included is a new Arpeggiator Preset Library that showcases all the creative possibilities. The many innovations include inspiring new Pattern Modes, Step Dividers, Pitch Slides and the unique ability to have altered Chord Voicings and Chord Inversions per step. Omnisphere’s renowned Arpeggiator has received a major update in v2.6 with all new creative tools, making it one of the most flexible arpeggiators ever. Here’s what they have to say about the new features: