Hey does anybody remember that free synth that east west was giving out, it was about 1gb or so download, was it that colossis? D!J!X! _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:29 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds Bryan, I personally wouldn't recommend either atmosphere or omnisphere for great, natural-sounding, woodwind, string, brass, or other natural instruments. I would label them as average at best. Just my opinion, though. A better synth for that kind of stuff is EastWest's colossis. The only drawback to that is that you need sighted help to copy and paste the presets into sonar. Otherwise, it isn't accessible. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bryan Smart <mailto:bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:15 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Omnisphere sounds All of you people using Omnisphere, what is your opinion of the sound quality in terms of bread and butter sounds? All of the demos that I've found are full of amazingly pulsing, throbbing, morphing, arpeggiating, swirling textures and synth tambers. That sounds great for creating atmospherics, or for scoring television action shows. However, how well does Omnisphere serve as a general purpose go-to instrument? For example, I have lots of plugs if I want drums, pianos, electric pianos, guitars, and synths. However, when the odd situation comes up, and I need a sax, a ukulele, a harpsichord, or a sitar, I need a general purpose synth to go to. I've used various things for that over the years, but I'm now in a spot where the old stuff like Hypersonic isn't available anymore on Win 7, and I'm trying not to use hardware synths anymore, so can't just track in something from one of those. So, how do you rate it for general purpose sounds? Bryan PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectúq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq