[ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds

  • From: "Kevin Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:47:41 -0500

Omar, What synth are you talking about in this msg?

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Omar Binno
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 6:54 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds


The only thing I do with it is use the sounds. You don't have access to any
parameters, and even for sounds, you need sighted help to copy the presets
into sonar and save them. Otherwise, you can't access them. I feel that
unless you use a synth like Vienna, hardware boards are still the best
sounding for strings, brasses, and woodwinds. I know that's not what we'd
like to acknowledge, and I know that we'd all like to get into as much
softsynths as possible, but honestly, I haven't heard anything satisfactory
in the realm of virtual that can match a hardware synth like the motif or a
roland synth for the instruments I mentioned above, except for the Vienna
stuff.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: D!J!X! <mailto:megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 4:04 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds

I'm assuming you've got this synth? How much of it can you access with jaws?
 
D!J!X!

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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Omar Binno
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 3:44 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds


I think he meant the 1gb free one from eastwest. colossis is definitely not
a loser. it's great.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: D!J!X! <mailto:megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:19 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds

Colossis is the loser? If so, why?
 
D!J!X!

 
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gordon Kent
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 12:58 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds


I tried it and it was a loser.
Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: D!J!X! <mailto:megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:40 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds

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!

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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
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