Spectrasonic's Omnisphere flagship psychoacoustic virtual synth with STEAM Engine
technology is a Powerful and Ethereal Virtual Instrument that is
destined to shape the future of electronic music!
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.
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“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.”
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 System Features
- Powerfully simple interface design makes key features accessible to every
user
- Advanced users can "zoom" into deeper and deeper synthesis capabilities
- Sophisticated Browser with searching, sound attributes, descriptions and
images
- 8 independent Arpeggiators
- World´s first Arpeggiator with Groove Lock™ - which allows the Arpeggiators
to match the feel of Stylus RMX and MIDI Files.
- Special performance-oriented Live Mode interface allows for seamless,
interactive creative patch switching and layering on the fly
- Stack Mode interface allows for complex patch layering, splits, and
crossfades (velocity/positional/controller)
- 8-part multitimbral with built-in Mixer, Aux FX and Mastering FX racks
- Advanced MIDI Learn and Automation parameter handling
- Comprehensive integrated Reference Guide
- Hours of free Tutorial Videos available online to registered
users
Omnisphere Synthesis Features
- Oscillators can be sample-based or synth-based
- Up to 10 oscillators per patch with new Harmonia™ feature
- Flex-Mod™ modulation system allows powerful modular-style routing
- Dual Layer architecture
- High-definition streaming engine
- Variable DSP Oscillator Waveshapes
- Sophisticated Unison Detuning
- Variable Analog Feel
- Modulatable Hard Sync
- Granular Synthesis
- Innovative Chaos Envelopes
- Polyphonic Timbre Shifting
- Polyphonic Timbre Crushing
- Polyphonic Waveshaper
- Polyphonic Ring Modulation
- Polyphonic Glide
- FM Oscillators
- Dual Filter architecture per Layer
- Create filter combinations in series or parallel
- Arrange and blend more than 17 Filter algorithms
- Fully modulatable FX racks
- Alternate tuning scales supported
- 6 full-featured LFOs per patch
- 8 Advanced Multi-breakpoint looping Envelopes per patch
- Unique Dual Envelope interface - Simple ADSR-style or Advanced Graphic-style
- Sampled soundsources can be processed with synthesis features!
Omnisphere Sound Library
- Vast Core Library - over 40GB with thousands of sounds
- Cutting-edge sounds from the renowned Spectrasonics sound design team
- Innovative "Psychoacoustic" soundsources for organic synthesis!
- Unique multisampled "Composite Morphing™ soundsources
- Integrates the award-winning, original Atmosphere® core library
- Integrates best of Spectrasonics highly-acclaimed sample libraries
- Massive variety of inspiring sounds for all types of music production
- Searchable by sound attributes (Timbre, Genre, Mood, Tonality, Source, etc)
- Expandable sound architecture
Omnisphere Effects Features
- Integrated, full-featured FX Racks
- Up to 12 simultaneous FX per patch
- Layer FX modulatable from any mod source
- Hundreds of FX presets included
- Over 32 original FX Processors covering the full spectrum of signal
processing
Omnisphere Videos
View Omnisphere video episodes
View Omnisphere FAQ Omnispere Compatibility
Omnisphere is cross-platform
compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher as a native Universal Binary and also
with Microsoft Windows XP/Vista. Audio Units, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats are
supported for compatibility with all major host software. |
