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«  While the one who knows (almost) everything! »

Published on 09/15/12 at 07:18
Value For Money : Excellent
Easy installation although a little long .. but even when good considering the amount of sound banks to install it is quite normal, there is nothing nothing!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Laptop i7 740 / 8GB RAM

the app runs well, but hey do not stack instances has force if the cpu gets on his knees! Each instance of Omnisphere allows 8 "sounds" that can be "read" by 8 different MIDI tracks if necessary. With my CPU according to the DAW (Reaper being the best of the point of view) I get a reading between 30 and 40 MIDI tracks routed to four or five instances of Omnisphere ... I never needed as in my projects (and the worst I can do a bounce) so if you have a machine correctly, no problem. Some banks may also be beefy enough so the RAM is not to overlook either especially if you use multiple sounds at once (and other VST / VSTi)
On my machine everything is very stable and in 4 years I have never had any problem or crash from Omnisphere (, Trilian and Stylus RMX).

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a few years already and before I Omnisphere tests (continuous test) countless synth / piano / generator soundscapes etc. .. I still use some as Massive, Nexus, Rob Papen etc. .. I find good ... but in all honesty, none at Omnisphere.
The report price is good quality at very good I would say (very good for me). Must see if you need all of "his" and in fact the importance that is given to the quality of those below. One thing is sure with Omnisphere if you know how to use (like always!) Can (almost) do everything and I have to admit that I used quite a few other synth that i (only when I want a well accurate and i lazy to recreate in Omnisphere!), especially if you also have Trilian, the sound banks are available in Omnisphere Trilian. Obviously Spectrasonic products combine very well with each other (=> Stylus RMX and Trilian)

The app even him is really very well designed and organized. It is a gas plant but really thinks and allows ranking very convenient (and customizable) to find banks or sort them according to certain criteria. This being said, even when it is necessary to spend time exploring all the possibilities offered (and believe me there and I discovers yet!) Under penalty of missing out on a lot of stuff (and incidentally not return on investment!) ... so you have to predict the time to learn even if Omnisphere sounds bases that have already very good quality can often be sufficient to our happiness! And Commes sounds are really good and almost infinite possibility, spend time on ca omnispheres is nothing unpleasant to do!

In short, if you want something that really sounds and makes almost everything very well ... look no further this is the one you need, you buy nothing else after (or almost nothing! Lol )