A Bold Leap Forward in Hybrid Synthesis
Renowned for its powerful hybrid synthesis engine and extensive sound library, Spectrasonics Omnisphere has been a staple in music production for nearly two decades. Omnisphere 3 brings with it a plethora of worthy updates, including a refreshed library with thousands of new sounds, intelligent adaptive global controls, and creativity-sparking patch mutations. It gives you a salmagundi of additional synthesis and sound design features, along with ear-grabbing, deep-sampled sound sources. Omnisphere 3 boasts vastly expanded hardware integration, offering support for synths and controllers from every major manufacturer. You’ll revel in Omnisphere 3’s updated effects library, which includes over 35 new effects, and thanks to the Omnisphere FX Rack plug-in, you’ll be able to deploy them in your DAW sessions. You also get significant interface tweaks, including a redesigned Full Browser and timesaving organizational features. Omnisphere has long been the go-to tool for top artists and producers across genres, and Omnisphere 3’s innovative new features and vast library make it even more essential for crafting unique sounds for music, films, and games alike.
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Thousands of new sounds bring fresh inspiration
Omnisphere has long been admired for its robust sound library, and Omnisphere 3 certainly delivers the goods! For starters, you get a massive new factory collection of 18 libraries, featuring thousands of inspiring sounds, meticulously crafted by the award-winning Spectrasonics sound design team. Furthermore, it retains all the classic Omnisphere patches from previous versions, painstakingly refreshed and remastered with version 3’s features and effects. Moreover, these highly curated libraries are methodically organized by type of use, making it incredibly fast and easy to find the sounds you’re searching for. Lastly, Omnisphere 3’s expanded sound library uses no more storage space than version 2, thanks to cutting-edge lossless optimization technology.
Effortless customization for every patch
With Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3’s adaptive global controls, you can quickly customize the sound of any patch by tweaking its Tone, Ambience, Filter, Envelope, Vibrato, and Unison characteristics. These intelligent controls automatically analyze the patch, ensuring musical results in seconds. Additionally, Omnisphere 3 includes patch mutations, which allow you to craft instant variations of any patch — from subtle to extreme — with fascinating and inspiring results. At Sweetwater, we’ve found that building exciting new sounds has never been easier than with Omnisphere 3.
Next-level tools for bold synth creators
First and foremost, Omnisphere is a synthesizer — and an incredibly powerful one at that. Omnisphere 3 raises the bar significantly, boasting a whole host of new synthesis and sound design features. Powerful Quadzone modulation allows for dramatic timbral movement by splitting sounds into four independently controlled layers. A fully upgraded Filter section includes 36 new filter types in seven distinct sonic flavors. Additionally, you can bathe your sounds in authentic, component-modeled filter saturation for warm analog coloration. You also get a polyphonic dual frequency shifter, which can fully track your keyboard. Omnisphere 3’s Oscillator Drift feature injects authentic analog instability, adding vintage-tinged character to your sounds. You also get an array of fresh sweepable EDM wavetables and Unison Phase Scatter, Mix, and Analog features, providing you with the raw materials you need for futuristic sound design and lush sonic landscapes. Moreover, Omnisphere 3 includes OBXA-, Moog-, and Odyssey-style portamento curves with Auto-Bend and CS80-style Glissando and full MPE support, opening up an immense creative playground for bold synthesis. Lastly, Omnisphere 3 includes a wide range of deep-sampled sound sources, giving you an expansive sonic foundation that bridges the gap between cutting-edge synthesis and richly detailed acoustic realism.
Transform your favorite synth into a hands-on controller
Omnisphere was the first soft synth to offer Hardware Synth Integration, which transforms popular synthesizers into hands-on controllers that unleash Omnisphere’s newly expanded synthesis capabilities — a groundbreaking feature that makes using Omnisphere feel just like playing a hardware synthesizer. Omnisphere 3 expands this integration, extending it to work with every major brand of synthesizer and MIDI controller. It bridges the gap between software and hardware, offering you intuitive control of Omnisphere by using the familiar layout of your favorite supported hardware synth. Easy to set up and use immediately, Omnisphere 3 includes over 300 new hardware profiles in total.
Enhance your sounds with loads of effects
There’s another excellent way to tweak your tones in Omnisphere 3: effects — tons and tons of effects, including over 35 new ones — any 16 of which can be deployed simultaneously. Omnisphere 3’s effects span every category. The Reverbs section not only includes the usual ambiences but also more esoteric options, such as Solar Shimmer and Inversions, while the Delays section features Refraction Delay, Backward Echo, and more. The newest additions to the Creative section give you tons of sound-mangling power, comprising Flip Backward, Pump-O-Matic, Half Speeder, Warp Shifter, Pulsar Split, and Ring of Fire. The Modulation section includes Unstable Drifter, Chameleon Chorus, and Barberpole Phaser, while the Dynamics section adds vintage-style hardware compressors, such as Optical Leveling Amp, Classic 1176 Limiter, and Solid State Mix Bus, to your processing arsenal. You also get ear-grabbing Color effects and a bevy of Equalizers — the latter of which includes Vintage British Desk, 1970s Class-A Console, and Classic Tube 2-band, Midband, and Filters options, among others. You also get a nice array of Distortion effects. On top of that, the Omnisphere FX Rack plug-in allows you to deploy all these incredible effects in your DAW!
A cleaner, more intuitive way to find your sound
Navigating Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3 is easier than ever, courtesy of its redesigned Full Browser. It includes extensive implementation of subcategories and a Directory Tree interface that makes exploring its vast library fast, clean, and intuitive. You also get a Hide feature that enables you to move sounds you don’t need out of sight. Moreover, Omnisphere 3 features new Library images for an eye-catching presentation and a simplified tagging system with Keywords and Moods. Beyond that, you get full backward compatibility with all previous versions.
Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3 Features:
- The latest iteration of Spectrasonics’ flagship software synthesizer
- Utilizes Omnisphere’s classic hybrid synth engine
- Refreshed library with thousands of new sounds
- Audio Import lets you drag-and-drop your own audio file to use as a sound source, which can then be processed with synthesis features
- Quadzone modulation allows for dramatic timbral movement
- Powerful Granular Synthesis for stunning transformations
- Wavetable Synthesis (each waveform is a morphing wavetable)
- Robust synthesis engine with 4 Layers per patch and doubled Mod Matrix
- Polyphonic dual frequency shifter that can fully track your keyboard
- Deeper FM/Ring Modulation capabilities for aggressive timbres
- Flex-Mod modulation system for powerful, modular-style matrix routing
- 8 full-featured LFOs per patch, with syncing and complex waveforms
- 12 Envelopes with simple ADSR-style or advanced multi-breakpoint interfaces
- Polyphonic Timbre Shifting/Crushing, Waveshaping, and Reduction
- Deep-sampled sound sources bridge the gap between cutting-edge synthesis and richly detailed acoustic realism
- Intelligent adaptive global controls allow quick customizations of your patches
- Creativity-sparking patch mutations create instant variations of any patch
- 8 independent Arpeggiators with unique Groove Lock feature
- Synth Oscillator with 500+ DSP waveforms and up to 20 oscillators per patch (can be either DSP synth or sample-based)
- Fully upgraded Filter section includes 36 new filter types in 7 distinct sonic flavors
- Component-modeled filter saturation provides warm analog coloration
- Oscillator Drift feature injects authentic analog instability
- Fresh sweepable EDM wavetables give raw fuel for futuristic sound design
- Unison Phase Scatter, Mix, and Analog features open lush sonic landscapes
- OBXA-, Moog-, and Odyssey-style portamento curves with Auto-Bend and CS80-style Glissando
- Full MPE support opens up an immense creative playground for bold synthesis
- Expanded hardware integration with support for synths and controllers from every major manufacturer
- 93 FX units, including 35+ new FX, are fully integrated and can be modulated
- FX Rack plug-in allows you to deploy FX in your DAW sessions
- Multiple interface tweaks, including a redesigned Full Browser and timesaving organizational features