Review: Spectrasonics Omnisphere 1.0.2 (Bonus Material)
Jan 9, 2009 5:08 PM, By Geary Yelton
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TIMBRAL TERRITORY
Omnisphere gives you plenty of sounds to explore, and I spent many hours just perusing and modifying the thousands of included Multis, Patches, and Soundsources. The Patch Browser supplies categories such as Keyboards (electric and acoustic pianos, organs, and Clavs), Retro Underground (Casio VL Tone, vintage string machines, and the like), and Synth Classic (featuring a vast assortment of vintage analogs).
Probably the most interesting category is Psychoacoustic, which contains many of the Omnisphere design team’s most exotic sound experiments: bowing a laundry-drying rack acoustically coupled to a pair of guitars, rolling objects around in Tibetan singing bowls, playing a steel drum with fingertips, and so on. Although mostly organic in nature, the sounds in this category are some of the spaciest I’ve ever heard. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to discovering what Omnisphere can do.
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