Review of Omnisphere

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Review of Omnisphere


http://www.zzounds.com/a--3745/item--SPCOMNISPHERE




Excerpt from:
http://tweakheadz.com/reviews/review_of_omnisphere.html

I purchased the Omnisphere upgrade within the first few days of its availability. Yet I had not installed it thinking I was going to go with a new Mac Pro, and my G5 did not meet the stated requirements of a 2.0 ghz processor. Then the recession hit and the new Mac Pro is probably going to have to wait. But I was just dying to run Omnisphere. Tonight I tried it after adding a new 1TB Firewire800 external drive. The installation was painless. Omnisphere is installed and working on my G5 1.8Ghz and its working well enough to use. Just a little heavier than Atmosphere.
 
So far, high marks. Omnisphere goes much deeper than Atmosphere. Perhaps the main thing of note is that it has many more sounds and is 8 part multi-timbral per instance. Much like a hardware synth, you can decide to build a multi with 8 parts on 8 different midi channels or 8 parts all on 1 channel for a monster performance preset. You could not do this in Atmosphere, and it instantly gives you access to new ways of working with these sounds that can improve your music.

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[nightspring]

Did you install Omnisphere on your external hard drive or just use it to make room so you could install Omnisphere on your Mac's hard drive?

[Tweak]

Its on a 2nd internal HD

[nightspring]

oh ok. i think i need to do the same thing with my macbook pro. install a second hard drive in place of the optical drive so i can keep my firewire available for my interface.

[MartinJG]

Tweak

What a brilliant website. A real Aladdin's Cave with a nice homely sort of feel to it. I was browsing over the weekend and stumbled onto it. Lost track of time. Next thing I knew, it was Monday.

Can you help? I have Omnisphere and want to load it onto my second HD 640GB. Is it best to load the first disc (Plugin) onto the C: Master Drive (O/S) and the library on the Second Drive (640GB)? Since my CPU is a P4 3GHz, I really need to run it as efficently as possible before I finally bite the bullet and upgrade to a multicore whatsit.

Many thanks for your help and time on this.

Martin

[Tweak]

Thanks Martin,

I have to defer to the video that comes with omnisphere on installation. It tells it better than I can.

[MartinJG]

Rich

I managed OK. What a monster. Doesn't seem to get on too well with EWQL when it comes to sharing.

Thanks

Martin

[Tweak]

Seems to run better in 64 bit mode.