All user reviews for the Spectrasonics Atmosphere

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FITNESS / PERFORMANCE

yes it works it works .... you still have to let go of the dough in the ram and all the etintouin with these greedy vsti ....

For the content, nothing new compared to the ambient sound libraries for hardware sampler.


NOTICE GLOBAL

I like the opportunity to embark on a small Mac (or PC) a quantity of sounds to compose and about. J not like the fact that when the computer will be obsolete nothing said I could use the Always On (old debate)
Not that I like least is that it not sound as although we read everywhere; who has tasted the big samplers emu is far from being taped. (spectrasonics ad also created super cd rom) Omnisphere has more sounds but no body.
The presence of sound disappears that you plug a real synth side.
Yes I know it is used to film music, as in his time what s1000 ....
it's not a bad tool, but in music film is composed of a certain manner and precisely the narrowness and coldness of his makes it airy mix, allows for resortir voice fx and ambiences.


So no I do not think it is zero. but the curtain to climb ...
As said below I find absynth above, more varied and more convenient.

No problem for the installation ... on the other hand, if you need to restart your PC, you have to reinstall everything: not smart! (And not hurt Cds)
It basically works as a plug-in ... why? too bad.
No need to amnuel ... just a good pair of ear.

ADQUATION / PERFORMANCE

This is a synth layers of especially the "big sound". If you buy it you'll be delighted to ... Atmospheres, muicaux funds, transitions ... you'll find it.
I find against the access by the sound bank is lousy. In addition, it has the right of bizarrodes names and it is impossible to remember those we have loved or not ... Therefore take notes (which is, as everyone knows, drawing!).

NOTICE GLOBAL

A very good VM so. on the other hand, if you like to tweak sounds, it is better to go his way to see Rob Papen for example ... L is adjusted slightly basic sound but no more.
I suggest, however, and I wish they would leave us the standalone version ..

Installation LONG
Gnrale correct configuration; you can not resize the window of the plug-in,
We can not say that it is a model of stability (relative proteus vx, korg legacy, discovery)
Sounds a bit dats and / or seen and reviewed and better.


ADQUATION / PERFORMANCE

I tested this on a PC VSTI ddi a base intel core duo 2.9 ghz and only 512 MB of RAM (thoriquement sufficient after the sdonnes manufacturer)

I tested with two different audio systems: Roland SP606 and Digidesign mbox

Atmosphere makes me crash from time to time cubase so that he never planted with other vsti. Not super stable so. More demand for regulation of buffers (because samples from 20 January 50 MO?)

There is a clear difference between the sounds config sp606 (limitea 44.1 Hz) and mbox (in 48khz)

It's still far from spectacular especially given the enthusiastic comments on the sound quality ....

NOTICE GLOBAL

I voulai test it before can be used ll acquire ... I think to uninstall it and do not get me.
j ia tried the ptroteus vx the waldorf largo, the disco dsp discovery, the Korg Legacy.
this is the one I like least: sgourmand rained, moin sstable and a result dcevent:
3 GB of sounds pomps on banks spectrasonics sounds that I have to Adi akai format and sounding much better read by akai or emu. Many sounds penguin who can not play a chord and play with one finger.
The peculiarity that I love most: the theory that one can have a studio in compo computer.
The peculiarity that I like least: the quality of the sounds: the style is not in question is in the title, this is not the fact that the audio quality does not my tape away from the .dropoff window
Not very stable, ds that we want to use multiple vsti at once to replace a set, but it's not entirely his fault ...
Today if I were to get a laptop config and after a lot of tests j will opt for a waldorf largo, not too expensive despite its narrow its a korg legacy, and I will transfer the structure of banks akai format kontakt halion or exes according to the host software cd ... USB SoundScan etheral atmosphere that side almost nothing secondhand transfr and will give very good results for cheap.

Any fawn, now it's Omnisphere ...

Atmosphere is a virtual synth that is pretty good and very easy to use and to install. The only problem that I see with it was the price. I feel like it was overpriced (at the time) but the price may have come down some since. But when it first came out years ago the price of it was just too high . When there are other vst’s on the market that are almost the same but cost even less.


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I have been using Spectrasonics Atmosphere for years now as a vst (don’t think it can be used as a stand alone) and I havent had any issues yet. I still use it to this day and I purchased it years ago. I have had it on so many different machines and it worked perfect on all of them. Even the ones that are older and really outdated and slow. I have only used it in Fl Studio thinking about adding it to some of my other set ups though.


OVERALL OPINION

If you really take the time to get to Understand everything in Atmosphere (you will need the manual to do this!) then it can really be to your advantage in editing the sounds and parameters for each sound. You can really dig deep and just do some flat out cool stuff with it. It will allow you to bring out creativity that your fellow musicians may lack. But this virtual synth will cost you a pretty penny , which is the downside. I am happy that I purchased it though, but if I was on a tighter budget at the time I probably would have got it. Or if I tried it out before I spent the money I might not have got it because there are cheaper vsts that are almost the same. But hey if you want something good that will last you have to invest!

Installation takes just 70 minutes ... prs 3 gigabytes of sounds install on your hard drive ... registration serial number (to get on the Spectrasonics site) a bit heavy ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I use a 1 gig athlon, 512 M RAM, Sound card Terratec dmx6fire.
No problem jouabilit of stability or even more is that my motherboard chipset VIA various problems usually subject ... s no bug
To my surprise, Atmosphres normment does not require CPU resources. In each component, I use three or four, without the maddens tmoin load: in short, it's not what virtual guitarist!
A well prciser sr vsti that is not multitimbral.
The only inconvnient, if there is one, is the loading time of each preset: Some patches are not 70 or 80 prs mgas, so about ten seconds to put it in memory .. . difficult to find a sound for so sweeping CATEGORY ..

OVERALL OPINION

The sounds are properly fall to the ground ... one word comes to the main Defines CHARACTERISTICS this plug: THICKNESS.
Thickness of sound, one chord and the sound fills the space, heavy, dense, shiny, this is the first plug the minimax, or I feel like playing with an expander .. The presets are Varis and trs originals, not copies of vulgar but a real work of Fast Fashion from Persinger and his team. Note that it's not just the pads or sheets, but also synthetic bass (noooormes!), Sound effects, synths lead to some very "harsh" and a CATEGORY europads terrible. The modulation capabilities are correct: LFO, cutoff, rponse curves, filters, enough to radically change the sound of a preset: the hack is possible, it is not a player presets if you See what I mean.
At the same time I bought the 5 volume "synth" of Plugsound. Quickly delivered to the closet, so the sound is shrill and pathetic ct.
For me, the essential plug all my components. 2000 and some bullets, and a is an expander aisment 10,000 bales. I never thought to write one day.

About 1 hour of installation (but it is prvenu since Setup tells us).
It is about choosing the place or will place the file containing the samples (3.74 GB).
Trs interresting when we have two hard drives (one for samples, one for audio tracks longer).

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

My PC: Athlon XP2000 +, 512MB DDRAM, 7VAXP Gigabyte motherboard (Via KT400 chipset -> no problem in DPIT of the reputable Via), two Seagate Barracuda (80 and 120 GB -> total silence), sound card M-Audio Delta 44 (24bits, 96kHz), Windows XP
Perfect stability.
It takes 1 5 sec to load a program.

OVERALL OPINION

I think I have little essay prs all existing virtual instruments today.
I think therefore have a certain distance.
Spectrasonics Atmosphere This could (or should in my opinion) be the first virtual instrument
mythical as have many synthtiseurs t (which we find the sounds for that matter)
Certainly when evokes the name of Spectrasonics, we expect the quality but it's the one who rve couraging.
The sound library is huge, varied, a sound quality (especially in 32-bit mode) that has nothing do with any other VST instruments (except may be the Moog Modular, hlas trs heavy, complicated and sounds which standards must be reworked to be "mixable", and some sounds Plugsound).
In addition, you can REALLY CRER new sounds by fiddling little trs.
If a lot of sounds are oriented atmosphere, all types "synthetic" are around (you will not find a guitar or trumpet shrill nasal!).
Nothing is cast, no sound "rotten."
Need I say more? THANK YOU

Yes it is long ... but just one hour APRS for a great synth it goes alone.
a manipulation performed on Mac OS X says on the Spectrasonics site (but a little boring anyway)
otherwise no particular problem

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

G4 1.25 GHz.
no significant problem. loading sound is rather fast. any bug report. just that it eats some CPU load when three big sounds. a bit of audio noise when playing. but it is quite circumvented.

OVERALL OPINION

Yes c a super synth. I would like to criticize even a point in rcurant all the sounds of Spectrasonics. Their scale and complexity are their strength and beauty, but so you can forget the polyphonic complex! We must keep in mind that with 60% of atmosphere sounds you press a key on your keyboard and it will be enough!
So for a certain type of components will be excellent. The sounds of incredible power, immediately give the ambiance of your components. But for a composite harmonic evolution fast ...
All this to say that it's a great synth but in a style CIBL.

Ben is still longer than press POWER ON on a real synth .... No seriously, the software warns you that the install will be long but it's worth the wait.
Yes well I eréinstallerai the mornings not all the four anyway, especially after what comes out ....

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

on a P4 with 1GB of RAM using cubase as host it works with some additional plugs. for those who will say that it is a slight config j erepondrai I haven t the intention of slamming a 1000 euros ds pc fighter who will welcome and will be vst obsolete in two years. The mac tjs rolls as well and I want to ene allourdir with the gadgets. A PC is a 100 euros d c ets agreement and just for the test because it compares a soft and has some 300 euros (plus pc plus a decent audio card) is often a hardware synthesizer. and if we make this comparison with a PC running and expensive audio interfaces, it is not very objective either in terms of money

On a small p4 that it cuts too train too (a little long to load the run anyway)
No I have not overloaded the sprojets not

3 GB of disk space for 1000 I think it sounds exaggerated ...

OVERALL OPINION

As with vsti I find her attractive the idea of ​​being able to bring their virtual rack anywhere. is a real progress. I Scontri following the systematic opposition between hardware and software. I n the global level have not heard any vsti equal or exceed quality hardware (the piano has 40 GB pfffff if it is to play the shit, I prefer Chick Corea and kx and old sy bcp that are ridiculous now; c is about to play when you know .....)

I used the steps, I have not even reinstalled the

I prefer my bank for akai Spectrasonics (which comes from a lot of soft textures of this it looks like ....)

J aime bcp the atmosphere it inspires, but it's too nya ds this app, I prefer absynth is more varied.

TOO EXPENSIVE

d in did a bit tired of this craze for vsti when it is associated with a denigration of the hardware: for the moment I found pa ny smon counts for live, grain and value for money (but on a bcp n those who worship have always paid nothing then ...)

But that does not mean that we must denigrate these tools to deal everywhere, and are an extra interesant.

Atmosphere is very specialized and the escalation of gigabytes of Omnisphere does not convince me to listen to either, not a 400 euros.

I didn't have any problems installing the Spectrasonics Atmosphere virtual synth as it was a pretty easy process overall.  I didn't have any issues at all including those related to compatibility.  The interface of the software is pretty easy to follow as the typical functions are easy to find and are easy to use.  It has all the options and features that you expect with synths including filters, LFOs, and amp, pitch, and filter envelopes.  It also has a variety of parameters around these sections so as you can see there is a lot going on.  If you are experienced with synths you will be able to figure out everything quite easily as everything is pretty common.  I haven't seen a manual for the Spectrasonics Atmosphere so I can't say if it would be helpful or not.


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Thus far, I haven't ever had a problem running the Spectrasonics Atmosphere.  I've been running the software on a Mac Book Pro lap top that has a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM.  I am able to run the software quite well on this system and I think that if you have something similar to this configuration you won't have any problems and can probably even get away with using this fine on systems with less processing power...


OVERALL OPINION

The Spectrasonics Atmosphere synth is quite a powerful piece of software and the sounds that are possible are quite varied.  This is a great sounding overall synth as the sounds are realistic and versatile.  The price of the Spectrasonics Atmosphere isn't all that cheap, but does fall in line with what a synth of this quality costs.  If you are looking to add a great virtual synth to your rig, Spectrasonics Atmosphere is one of the best out there that you can get.

Atmosphere comes with a MASIVE 3.7 gig library with more than 1000 patches to be mixed and matched to over 1 million combinations. Three envelopes per layer for Pitch, Filter and Amplitude are available for use in this fully programmable piece of software. I would definitely love to have more exotic flute and string presets included in the next version of Atmosphere. Just the term "Atmosphere" itself screams for more ethnic-influenced instruments/sounds ranging from dreamy sitars to chinese violins.

$375

I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE Atmosphere because of it's large GUI and it's colors are easy on the eyes. hey it's blue for Christ's sake! Users don't have to worry about flipping through screen after screen or clicking on a million drop down menus to figure out out to program sounds of their own. I find that extremely attractive and a blessing for those of us who aren't quite at a doctorate's level on synth programming.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Sound quality is superb. Actually Atmosphere was the first VST that truly put the whole hardware vs. software sound quality to bed. As much as I love my Triton, I'd have to admit that the pads and strings in Atmosphere literally renders Korg's offerings obsolete. Also Atmosphere offers a number of bells, synth leads, and evolving landscapes which were programmed using popular synths such as the Juno8 and Access Virus.

It's software....hasn't crashed on me yet. I've used it on both MAC and PC without any error.

OVERALL OPINION

I'd marry this bytch if I could. I could literally produce an entire album with Atmosphere alone....oh with the help of Stylus Remix for drums/percussion of course. I basically threw away most of my othe VST's simply to spend more time learning how to program Atmosphere while discovering new and interesting sounds while layering patches. If you're into film scoring, synthy hip hop, and electronic music then Atmosphere is definitely for you. It's definitely money well spent especially since you get GREAT SOUNDING patches right out of the box. Many vst's force you to come up with hit sounds on your own. This is definitely not the case for Atmosphere. Hope you'll decide to buy because you'll definitely enjoy this great product. Oh and don't try downloading it bytches. It's worth every penny spent.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: OsamaPigLatin ( 6-, 2005)

This program installed without any problems. It did take a significant amount of time though. It has a pretty large sample library so that is to be expected. Registration was clear and easy, and so was the rest of the installation process. I did not have any compatibility issues in my installation. All the configuration to my system was automatic, Cubase found it easily. The manual is not that great, I found myself searching online sometimes to answer quick questions I had that I thought could have been answered by a more complete manual. Most things are covered though, and it is written clearly and plainly.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

My computer is a Dell with an Intel processor and 2 gigabytes of ram. I also use Cubase on Windows XP. It works very well in this configuration. It has a VST version so it will work with a lot of other PC computers. This program is not really all that CPU and memory heavy, so you can run it on a slower computer without much trouble. I myself have run three of them at a time with no trouble. This also makes me think that it's very stable. I think it only crashed one time, but my computer was a little on the fritz at the time, so it probably was no fault of Atmosphere.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using this software for a couple years. I really love the great pads you can get from this software. So many songs can benefit from just a light touch of some of these sounds in the background to help support the music. Atmosphere really does that job well. There's a lot of variation you can get, or you can keep it simple. Atmosphere even offers two modes of controlling it - a keep it simple method with only a few controls, or the full hands-on mode with tons of things to edit about the sound. There is of course a great preset library to get you started. From light fluffy airy sounds, to dark gritty ones, you will be absolutely well covered for pads with this software. It's hard to think of anything wrong with this program, I've been very happy with it. It's a great value, I really wouldn't want to have to go without it. I would definitely get it again.