Omnisphere 3 has arrived.

[sintil8]

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Regards to all

 

[Davey]

Omnisphere 2 is one of my favourite and most-used synths so I'm excited by the announcement but I'm not excited by the upgrade price so I'll be holding off upgrading for a while.

I love that they have added a mutate feature. More synths should have that sort of thing. The one in Absynth was superb.

 

[Jemusic]

The upgrade price is actually reasonable. High yes I agree but considering what you get this is fairly major upgrade plus you get a huge range of libraries now as well as the revamped factory sounds. I am not sure what the 'Atmosphere' upgrade option means though. This is discontinued synth. Are they bringing it back etc..

 

[sintil8]

The upgrade price is actually reasonable. High yes I agree but considering what you get this is fairly major upgrade plus you get a huge range of libraries now as well as the revamped factory sounds. I am not sure what the 'Atmosphere' upgrade option means though. This is discontinued synth. Are they bringing it back etc..

Atmosphere was the intial offering that transformed into Omnisphere 1 then 2 and now 3. It was the original product.
It's come a long way over the years. There are some things in there that I know folk have been asking for including myself.
It's probably for folk that never upgraded from Atmosphere.

The price as you say is reasonable as an upgrade, I wouldn't like to be looking at buying a full copy from scratch...
If they have been working on Ver 3., since Ver 2., was released in 2015 that would amount to almost 10 years R&D costs.

I do have some questions around DAW use as the Promo appears to be all standalone, but that and they are minor!

Kindest regards.

 

[Jemusic]

Thanks for that. They do say even in the $199 upgrade you get the 'Atmosphere' presets. I use it both ways in the DAW and standalone all the time. I have got it on 3 computers! Three Omnisphere's are better than one! The upgrade is massive though. New engines, effects, sounds, GUI improvements with advanced editing controls etc..Hardware integration has been really vamped up. They do things well and things stay pretty well the same for a long time with Omnisphere and the same will happen with V3. Once its settled in it will be solid and reliable for years. I have got the 'Undercurrent' expansion and it sounds fantastic.

 

[Davey]

I'd prefer a lower upgrade price that excluded all the new libraries. I've already got more sounds that I can ever audition so I don't place any value on that stuff.

But I'll end up buying it anyway. I don't think they ever have sales on their stuff but some of the resellers do.