After many years of development, Spectrasonics is proud to release the brand
new flagship virtual instrument
Omnisphere. This epic ‘Power Synth’
breaks completely new sonic ground by combining a wide variety of hybrid
realtime synthesis techniques, an epic library of remarkable
‘Psychoacoustic’ sounds, and many innovative features that have never been
seen before in any hardware or software synthesizer. The new instrument is
the first to be based on Spectrasonics newly developed
STEAM Engine.
“This is truly an Epic project,” said Eric Persing, Founder and Creative
Director of Spectrasonics. “We have been working for many, many years;
sampling unique sounds, experimenting, specifying the synthesis features and
building the
STEAM Engine
to run it all. It’s been a very exciting process involving our team of
software engineers, sound designers, musicians, and graphic artists from all
over the world. We’ve been very deliberate in making it easy to use, and yet
extremely powerful. Omnisphere is our new flagship synthesizer, and points
the way to all our future virtual instruments. We are thrilled to offer a
new product that will have a host of expansion capabilities in the future.”
SYNTHESIS - COMPOSITION - PRODUCTION - PERFORMANCE
Although this new synth is extremely powerful, Omnisphere is designed
with a unique user interface containing progressive layers of ‘zooming’ to
accommodate the complete range of users - from musicians who just want to be
inspired by the sounds and customize them in an easy way, to expert
synthesists and the most advanced sound designers. Users can go deeper and
deeper into the software and progress in their synthesis knowledge by simply
exploring additional levels of sound manipulation options. To make sure that
all users get the most out of the new capabilities, Omnisphere includes an
extensive set of video tutorials and synthesis lessons taught by the renown
Spectrasonics sound design team.
Omnisphere offers a host of hybrid synthesis and new control capabilities
including Variable Waveshaping DSP synthesis, Granular synthesis, Timbre
Shifting, FM, polyphonic Ring Modulation, high-resolution streaming Sample
Playback, Harmonia™, Dual Multimode Filter structure, Chaos Envelopes™, an
advanced Unison mode, and the innovative Flex-Mod™ modulation routing system
- to name a few.
The huge core library of Omnisphere is filled with years of creative
sampling experiments and thousands of inspiring patches. Spectrasonics has
pioneered several brand-new types of sampling for the core library of this
instrument, including unique “Psychoacoustic” sounds and soundsources
created with a new Composite Morphing Technique (CMT) - which morphs the
harmonic characteristics of one instrument to another. As a bonus, a section
of the core library is also devoted to representing the best of
Spectrasonics award-winning sample libraries. When all of these organic core
library soundsources are combined with the synthesis power of the STEAM engine,
the sounds become “alive” in a truly dynamic and expressive way.
Among the many unique features this new multitimbral synth offers are its
flexible arpeggiators with the innovative Groove Lock™ integration with
Stylus RMX - allowing the arpeggiator’s pattern to instantly groove with the
feel of the RMX drum loop; Live Mode for transitionless patch switching and
layering, Stack Mode for powerful performance mapping; and integrated
modulatable FX Racks.
Omnisphere is also the successor to Spectrasonics’ popular Atmosphere®
instrument, and contains enhanced versions of all the classic Atmosphere
sounds. However, the brand new core library in Omnisphere is 10-times the
size of Atmosphere and features thousands of completely new and different
sounds.
There is an upgrade for all Atmosphere customers, available from Spectrasonics
Techshop.
The culmination of many years of development, Omnisphere is an instrument of
extraordinary power and versatility. Omnisphere brings many different types
of synthesis together into one amazing-sounding instrument that will inspire
a lifetime of exploration.
Omnisphere is now shipping, and has an MSRP of $499 US and €379 Euro.
Omnisphere is cross-platform compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X 10.7 and
higher as a native Universal Binary and also with Microsoft Windows
8/7/Vista. Audio Units, VST, RTAS and AAX plug-in formats are supported for
compatibility with all major host software.