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Mark Morgon-Shaw

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2 hours ago, husker said:

'Spensiv....

I know Omnisphere has a loyal fanbase, but $500 for one VST?   Uff da....

I get why the price raises eyebrows, but Omnisphere really isn’t aimed at casual users. There are plenty of free or budget synths out there that are great for general sound design- but for working composers, this thing is a bit of a godsend. The sheer breadth of the sound library, the reliability, and how quickly you can get a cue up and running make it invaluable. It’s a proper workhorse.

Virtually everyone I know writing for TV uses it in some capacity, and personally, I’ve made the cost back from a single placement. It’s one of those tools that quietly earns its keep over and over again.

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Starship Krupa

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1 hour ago, GoncaloL said:

199$ for everything that is added is not to bad.

my only gripe is i was hoping for a substantial UI redesign, and it is pretty much the same

I checked out the demo video, and it looks like the existing UI is fine. Could do with some color theming, if it doesn't already. The blue is nice, but are there other colors?

Are there gripes with the existing UI?

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Zo

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Same here about the gui , my main grip is the gui , tweak osc , open a tab for lfo , go back to tweak the filter , then ect ....it was a real hassle and why i don't sounddesign that much in it , other thatn in pre production stage where i have time , but during production its presets and fast tweak

 

Not super exited but the 4 quad zone is the most powerfull features , freshift : could n't not care more , nex fx : cool , new fx in daw : cool (but we all have in 90 % of cases better , the more exotics ones are great ) 

HW integration great but if your hw is used in studio one for exemple as a control surface , you cant use it (discovered that and confirmed by support)

199 euros is kinda hard imho , i usually  jump straight but i'm more exited by expansions and there fx (specialised but high quality) 

 

Oh my bad another great feature i found : mutate : nothing new but historical recall of each ones is brilliant !!!(elektron you hear that !!) 

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1 hour ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

for working composers, this thing is a bit of a godsend. The sheer breadth of the sound library, the reliability, and how quickly you can get a cue up and running make it invaluable. It’s a proper workhorse.

Virtually everyone I know writing for TV uses it in some capacity, and personally, I’ve made the cost back from a single placement. It’s one of those tools that quietly earns its keep over and over again.

For sure, it's on my "if I won the lottery" list. Which also means that if it were a tool that I used for making money, I'd have it straightaway.

Seems like they know what they have, so they're smart to price it like that. The only danger is in someone coming along and eating their lunch, but the way to fend that off is to not get complacent. Keep it far enough ahead of the competition that the competition doesn't bother.

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21 minutes ago, Nitrate Audio said:

I have heard this is *the* only synth plugin you will ever need. unfortunately, i already invested in about 100 others, so what's the point? 

time to get some HW lol 

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Pretty crazy to put it into perspective that the same price bought me all of the following on sale which covers a LOT of the same and different territory!

Technically that's not entirely true.. I still had change left over... almost enough to pay for what Kilohearts Phase Plant semi-modular softsynth cost me too.. Haha.. 

  • EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition
    • Includes over 130GB of brand new recordings (total size is now 944GB)
  • UVI Falcon (Also when you buy you get a $100 | 100€ voucher to buy even more UVI stuff!)
    • Creative Hybrid Instrument
      • Sampling and synthesis for every sound design need
      • 24 oscillators, 100+ effects, deep modulation, and event processors
      • 1,600+ handcrafted, ready-to-play presets
  • Steinberg Absolute 6 VST Instrument Collection (Includes Halion and "More than 130 GB of instruments and 7,500 inspiring presets")
    • Sampler & Workstation
      • HALion 7 (The core sample, synth, and sound creation system)
    • Synthesizer and Electronic Music
      • FM Lab (New powerful and versatile FM synthesizer)
      • Retrologue 2 (Classic vintage analog synth)
      • Padshop 2 (Unique granular and spectral synthesizer)
      • Skylab (Sample library and HALion synth combination)
      • Anima (Cutting-edge synth sounds with powerful arpeggiator)
      • Triebwerk (Club sounds, synths, and hypnotic beats)
      • Trium (Clean analog synthesizer)
      • Voltage (Inspired by famous analog synthesizers)
      • Auron (Granular synthesis soundscapes)
      • HALiotron (Sounds of 1960s and '70s rock/pop)
      • Sounds of Soul (Retrologue expansion with four decades of synth sounds)
      • Polarities (Electronic and acoustic sounds expansion)
      • Granular Guitars (Acoustic and electric guitar samples using granular synthesis)
      • Hypnotic Dance (400 synth-heavy dance sounds)
    • Drums & Percussion
      • Groove Agent 5 (Acoustic and electronic drums, grooves, and live sampling)
      • Backbone (Intuitive drum designer and sound resynthesizer)
      • World Percussion (Percussion from Africa, Asia, Europe, and more)
      • B-Box (Step sequencer for beats and drum tracks)
      • Future Past Perfect (Groove Agent Expansion for New York House, Future House, and Techno)
      • Prime Cuts (Groove Agent Expansion for Hip Hop rhythm sounds)
      • Rock Essentials (Groove Agent Expansion for hard-hitting rock beats)
    • Pianos & Keys
      • The Grand 3 (Five meticulously sampled grand pianos from Yamaha, Steinway, and Bösendorfer)
      • The Eagle (Grand piano ideally suited to modern pop and rock)
      • The Raven (Grand piano delivering a rich, harmonic sound)
      • Amped Elektra (Smooth electric piano sound)
      • Model C (Tonewheel organ emulation)
    • Cinematic & Orchestra
      • Symphonic Orchestra (Complete symphony orchestra)
      • Studio Strings (Playable string ensemble sample library)
      • Dark Planet (Creative tool for cinematic scores and suspense music)
      • World Instruments (Large array of music from different cultures)
      • Olympus Choir Micro (Lightweight, user-friendly choir instrument)
      • Hot Brass (Multi-sampled brass library)
    • Guitars & Bass
      • Tales (New intimate sound of a handcrafted guitar)
      • Electric Bass (Three legendary basses combined in one realistic instrument)

(Note: there was too much in the Absolute Collection so I asked AI to summarize, but looks pretty correct.. )

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