This worked perfectly in my VSTi 2 host and does not require VSTi 3 support in order to intelligently resize. You can have Omnisphere 2 take up less horizontal space by pressing the right arrow to the right of the mini-browser to hide it, or toggle the arrow back when you need it again. The mini browser improvements are quite helpful, too.
OMNISPHERE 3 UPDATE
Spectrasonics has been great at focusing on that in free Omnisphere 2 updates, both in the Omnisphere 2.3 update and the 2.2 update earlier this year.
OMNISPHERE 3 SOFTWARE
It’s not the sort of “innovative feature” that generates a lot of buzz – it’s the sort of modification that makes the software faster and easier to use in the real world. While this may potentially be useful to other users, it seems especially helpful for those running Omnisphere in a live performance setting – making it much faster to get back on track if you make a mistake and less stressful to try tweaking things. Keyscape was released shortly before this review published, so my colleague David Townsend will be reviewing Keyscape in a future issue, so I’ll save any discussion of that aspect for now.įor me, one of the silent heroes of the update is the deceptively simple “redo/undo” functionality, which lets you undo or redo several actions without having to rely on host support. The software update covers a longer list of improvements: compatibility with Keyscape (which can be used from within the Omnisphere interface once purchased) redo/undo functionality, collapsing and expanding the Mini Browser Mini Browser ratings streaming improvements note stealing improvements progressive loading improvements the addition of a “Custom Tab Reset” user preference button in the system pane the addition of the ability to modulate the Aux Rack FX returns and several unspecified fixes and improvements. Omnisphere rarely forces you to think of things in a different way, it tries to make it easy to do it the way you naturally would – and do it quickly. Here, as in many other areas, I appreciated how Omnisphere offers many different ways to do similar things and caters to them equally well. If you modify the curve you can either copy and paste it to another part, or you can save it and load it at any point in the future using the pre-existing Omnisphere functionality.
It’s not a groundbreaking new feature, but it’s a simple and effective way for people to get the most of their keyboard controller without having to spend time doing editing and trial and error. The curve seemed well tailored to the heavier touch of many of the Yamaha keyboards (as compared to many other manufacturers), switching from the default curve on many patches (a slight downward swing) to a slight upward swing that made it easier to hit the higher velocity ranges. Since I used a Yamaha keyboard for this review, I loaded the Montage curve and compared it to a default linear curve (as well as the other presets).
OMNISPHERE 3 PATCH
To access the velocity curve presets you go the “Main” tab in the patch menu, then press the magnifying glass next to the “V-Curve” button – then click the downward arrow to the right of the word “Velocity Curve Zoom.” This gives you a list of a variety of popular MIDI keyboards – so if a model close to yours is available, you can load a preset designed to be used with that keyboard and the patch should sound close to the designer’s intent. I can’t speak to the improved tagging (as the nature of the improvements wasn’t specified) but the velocity curve presets are much easier to check. The patch library update covers three parts: new impulses responses (which are generally used to change the timbre or reverb of a sound) for compatibility with Spectrasonics new product Keyscape (which can be used in Omnisphere or on its own), tagging improvements and velocity curve presets. Like previous updates, Omnisphere 2.3.0 is split up into multiple parts: the 2.3.0h software update and the 2.3.0c patch library update.
In this review, we will initially focus on the new features, but for those completely new to Omnisphere, we look at the big picture after that. The update is free to all Omnisphere 2 users ($499 USD MSRP from or third party retailers for new ones) and expands the product’s ability to uniquely cater to a wide variety of users and settings with some small additions that show a strong understanding of current usage while setting up new ways to work – more on that in a minute. Omnisphere 2.3 is the latest update to Spectrasonics flagship power synth virtual instrument. We look at the latest release of Spectrasonics flagship virtual power synth, the elegant, potent and amazing Omnisphere 2.3.
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