Omnisphere is probably one of the most anticipated software synths ever, and now the wait is over - Spectrasonics has released it today.
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Spectrasonics has announced eleven winners (which were supposed to be three!) of their “Omnisphere Remix Contest”. All eleven contest winners will receive a free copy of Omnisphere when it is released on September 15, 2008. Episode 7 of the Omnisphere video series celebrates the winners.
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Continuing their new marketing tactic, Spectrasonics have announced the beginning of their 10-week “Omnisphere Preview Remix Contest” where registered virtual instrument users can create music using special loops that Spectrasonics has created from Omnisphere. Three winners will be chosen in July to receive a free copy of Omnisphere when it is released on September 15, 2008.
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Are you guys following the “soap opera” on Omnisphere? Part three have just been posted, showing how Spectrasonics uses psychoacoustics to generate new sounds. I’m watching it right, and it’s actually really inspiring!

Check out episode three here at Spectrasonics

I wish Spectrasonics would post these in Youtube format so I could just insert the videos here (hint, hint).

Anyway, part 2 is now up. It shows a little from Spectrasonics demoing it at NAMM, a lot of user opinions, and it also talks a little about the features (like the arpeggiator).

If you missed it, you can read the press release of Omnisphere here, and about the technology behind it - the STEAM engine - here.

Omnisphere teaser 2 at Spectrasonics

NAMM is over! Thank goodness! These times are crazy, it’s like Musikmesse ‘07 all over again. You better have appreciated the news feed coming from ProTooler during NAMM because I posted like a white punk on dope! I think there were something along the lines of 35 updates on day one alone. Crazy, crazy I tell you. But what was the quality on the new products announced there?
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Spectrasonics debuted its new ‘STEAM Engine’ core technology at the Winter 2008 NAMM show. The new software, created by the company’s in-house development team, will be used as the basis of all future Spectrasonics performance instruments, just as its core S.A.G.E. technology is used for groove-based instruments like the popular Stylus RMX. STEAM is important to Spectrasonics’ future because it completes the technology transition from earlier performance virtual instruments that were based on the licensed UVI Engine.
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After many years of development, Spectrasonics today previewed their brand new flagship virtual instrument Omnisphere®. The revolutionary ‘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’ STEAM Engine, the company’s newly developed core technology. Omnisphere is set to be released September 15, 2008, the MSRP is $499 US.
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As I’m sure you know, NAMM starts soon. NAMM is a place to present new products, and I will of course do my best to report about what’s going on there. So what will be there? I’ve heard about a lot of new basses and guitars (yeah, like that was a surprise!) but as you know I don’t really write much about those kind of instruments here. Here are some of the things that I’ve gathered from around the web, and got told about in emails and press releases that have been sent to me.
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Spectrasonics has released a new product package called “Stylus RMX Xpanded” which includes the acclaimed Stylus RMX Realtime Groove Module virtual instrument software, with all five of the company’s award-winning “S.A.G.E. Xpander” expansion libraries: Backbeat, Retro Funk, Metamorphosis, Burning Grooves and Liquid Grooves. The new package is priced at only $399US/349Euro and offers a tremendous value - saving the user almost $400US off the combined price of the individual titles. The addition of the Xpanders’ 5.5 gigabytes of outstanding acoustic drum and percussion grooves enhance Stylus RMX’s already massive 7.4 gigabyte remix-oriented core library.
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