Spectrasonics Omnisphere Power Synth

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Psychoacoustic virtual synth with STEAM Engine Technology

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."

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 which now includes 'Crusher', and 'Reducer', Granular synthesis with advanced 'Granular Visualizer', 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.

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.

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

SYNTHESIS FEATURES:

Expanded Synthesis capabilities
Harmonia: New zoom page shows all Harmonia parameters per layer adding up to 10 oscillators per patch with new independent modulation options for Levels and Fine Tuning on each Harmonia oscillator.
Waveshaper: New zoom page with extreme new processing modules including polyphonic 'Crusher' and 'Reducer' sections with 'Force' and 'Animation' controls that can all be modulated.
Granular Synthesis: New 'Speed' and 'Position' modes. New zoom page with new 'Granular Visualizer' showing a graphic model of the effect of parameter edits which makes Granular synthesis easier to use.
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!