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Per Lichtman

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  1. Synth people asked about the synthesis side of Omnisphere, here are two patch tests: one for filters and one for oscillator options. They are both hosted at my SoundClick page www.soundclick.com/perlichtman --------- Well this demo, like any others I have time to whip up with my schedule, doesn't really show off the power of Omnisphere. But a lot of people asked for isolated filter tests so I stuck them in here with a drum loop (just to keep it from being easy to sample). This is a live recording of the output of my host as it played a loop while I moved through the filters for the Omnisphere patch. It starts with no filter at all and then moves on from the first LP filter until it gets to the last. The timing of the changes isn't entirely consistent because I was doing it by hand in realtime. It takes almost 3 minutes. The filter cutoff and resonance are modulated by envelope and synced LFO. The pattern is deliberately as simple and repetitive as it can get in order to make it easy to compare filter types. Resonance can get very high (since it goes up to maximum) so be careful while listening. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm? bandID=827555&songID=6910245 -------------------------------------------- And another... --------------------- This uses the same pattern/loop as the last test but this time emphasizes the oscillator options instead of the filter. Once again, this is a recording of live tweaking with no intent save to show some of the ways the features can mangle the sound if you'd like them to. The entire test is done with a single layer of "synth" oscillators as opposed to sampled ones. Most of the availble parameters in the oscillator section are modified over time including FM, waveshaping, ring modulation, shape, symmetry, hard sync, etc. It gets pretty weird and unmusical at points, but that's sort of the point: this is just to show how far you can mangle sounds without even reaching for the filter, FX or modulation matrix. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm? bandID=827555&songID=6910328
  2. Champ, the demos are a) MP3s and b) used in a non-mix context. I would never post a song that sounded like that but as I say on my page, they are just patch tests. To the other comments: the depth is there. It took me a while to dig into it and find it but I've tried Absynth, KarmaSynth, CS-80v, Rapture, Albino, Crystal and all whole lot of others and I can tell you that the synthesis function in this should be compared to those kinds of synths, not to to samplers. The modulation options are huge and there are lots of synthesis options to change your sounds. Even if it didn't have the huge sound library, Omnisphere could go to-toe-toe with a lot of synths like Sylenth, Z3ta+, etc. and still be competitive. It's difficult to explain until you dig into it.
  3. Glad it could help. Yeah, the tricky thing to get my mind wrapped around is which parameters are per layer vs. which ones are per patch. For instance filters are per layer but envelopes are per patch. So if I setup an envelope to modulate filter cutoff, then it will do so for both filters, though the filters may be of entirely different types and have different starting values. Basically, it's a really different architecture and it's taking me a lot of time to explore all of it. The interesting thing, from my perspective, is what start happening when you take the different patches in Omnisphere and stack them (either using the stack function or by routing them to the same MIDI channel within the Omnisphere mixer). Then you can have up to 16 layers of a mixture of virtual analogue and sampled waveforms... it really is like a monster workstation synth. I remember people were talking about how Albino 3 was really taking things further when they allowed one instance to have 4 layers of 4 oscillators and now you have features like that, or the per layer fx possibilities (a la the per element ones in Rapture) in the synthesis engine for a virtual instrument that's primarily been marketed on the strength of the included sound sources. I was honestly surprised an I thought I'd been keeping up on the development.
  4. route-electrique: I wasn't trying to impress you, just trying to be helpful. I didn't help design or beta test the product so I'm just coming up to speed like everybody else. I can tell you that Omnisphere does approach things quite differently, however. It may not have vector synthesis or wave sequencing like the Wavestation or Wusikstation but it has a rather unique approach to modulaton. Here's the structure of an Omnisphere instance. - One multi divided into eight patches. - Each patch divided into two layers. - Per layer and common FX available within each patch as well as send effects. - Each patch can be output to its own stereo out.. Within each patch you'll find an open ended modulation system. No standard matrix. Just add new entries as you go. The list of sources and destinations is huge. I find it difficult to detail all of it so here are just some random highlights. - 6 lfos are shared between the two layers but envelopes are specific to the layer. The LFOs are syncable and can be set to modulate each other. - Multiple sources to one destination and multiple destinations are possible. The amount that you will modulate the parameter is displayed graphically and there is a text readout specific to the parameter (e.g. measure of time for LFO, measures of frequency for filters, etc.) -Per layer filters, unison/harmonia, FM, waveshaping, ringmodulation and more. - Preset management per area: unique ones for Oscillators, filters, modulation, envelopes, LFOs. Each layer can set to either "sample" or "synth" mode. I spent hours making patches in "synth mode" alone but some additional parameters are availble in "sample" that I haven't mentioned yet, such as graintable synthesis settings. All that with a 50GB library of raw sound material to work with and 4000 patches to get you started... definitely not just a ROMpler.
  5. Here are a couple patch tests I did. Note: patch tests, not musical compositions in any way. I finished installing my copy ca. 5 PM PST yesterday and some people asked for patch tests on another forum. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=827555&songID=6898325 http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=827555&songID=6899313
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