Any Spectrasonics news?

[Caine123]

im still shaking my head about many comments i read about omnisphere.......... overpriced (yeah i can argue with that wif the $249 is too much, i was more thinking of a max. $200).

but others upgrade from iris v1 to iris v2 which is jsut a laugh!

then many say omnisphere is an overpriced product after all?! are you nuts? for real!?

check the acoustic guitars out, those you would pay a min of $30 in a library each?
then checkout sample logic where you get 1/50 of omnisphere library for $200 - $300?
checkout the top notch effects you get with omnisphere?

you get THOUSANDS of presets where you can mangle them (now in omnisphere 2 much better!) the way you want (nearly). the libraries included there are top quality and a sound library/DVD itself costs $100, here you get 30-40 times the stuff or even more? + you can mangle those sounds INBOX!

also spectrasonics' support is so far by my experiences helpful and were there when i needed them!

they made a charity library? didnt they?

now with more wavetables etc. you can mix even more stuff together and have 8 midi outs, so pc efficiency is not much of a concern! i had to figure out how it works first though.

and much much more!

sure if you compare omnisphere with komplete it's hard, cause then you need to decide yourself what priorities you have! for dance music omnisphere is great but i use "smaller" vsts for that kind so i would get massive etc.

again, i really cannot see why people say "there are omnisphere brainwashed people who get butthurt"..... if you didnt play with this you cannot know! and im someone who is a cheaphead who buys mostly at bargainprices, this is my only (besides komplete 7!) most expensive plugin and MOST used one.

[valerian_777]

A Grace Period of 72 month would be fair.

Oh thanks a bunch - I bought it 73 months ago.

You nailed it.

[trimph1]

Anyone want to hazard a guess on East West's little vst?

[neverenoughfunk]

I'm a paid member of the Omni Cult and I couldn't possibly give even less of a flying mental f**k than I do now about whether anyone else on the planet likes Omnisphere or not.

I like it. Good enough fo' me baby!

Which is exactly what can be expected from a cult member.
(You've just confirmed many of the previous posts).

rather be a "cult member" than a "fart in a wind storm"... in other words... every time you make a statement... one has to check the direction of the wind...

[phatty]

And here I was hoping they had sampled a Burning Bieber for o2...

[Jace-BeOS]

I saw this thread title for several days. Didn't have any interest since I own no Spectrasonics products. Then the NAMM announcement came and I saw that the new version has the most requested feature of sample import. I saw this thread get more activity and assumed users were in here praising this final actualization of their biggest feature request.

No.

No, it's a shitstorm of complaints.

Normally I think KVR is way more awesome than the naysayers that bitch about bitching. This time I kinda get it.

[wagtunes]

I saw this thread title for several days. Didn't have any interest since I own no Spectrasonics products. Then the NAMM announcement came and I saw that the new version has the most requested feature of sample import. I saw this thread get more activity and assumed users were in here praising this final actualization of their biggest feature request.

No.

No, it's a shitstorm of complaints.

Normally I think KVR is way more awesome than the naysayers that bitch about bitching. This time I kinda get it.

Welcome to the human race. Are you really surprised?

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Welcome to the human race.

yup !! when someone who has supported a company for 8 years (and countless times defended said company against unjust attacks on these forums), expresses a contrary opinion, he deserves a virtual stoning

such is the kvr strain of the human race

[Pi_314]

Upgrade price to steep?
Yeah it's a bit pricey, I'd drop it 50 bucks' but we all know it ain't gonna happen.
The question becomes,,,,,,,, will you bite? I'm personally on the fence here, got a new hobby and making noise has dropped on the list. If Spectrasonics wants to peak my interest they can't do it once every 5 friggin years, how about every 6 months.

Here's how I would run the upgrade process. Put a $100 price tag for updates on say a two year basis. Spectrasonics just adds new stuff to it's products when it's available. For cripe sakes they probably had new stuff four years ago, but we are just now hearing about it.

As it now stands, at least for me, Spectrasonics may not be getting a penny, cuz I've pretty much given them up for dead. Fact is, I might be dead by the time their next update comes. 5 friggin years!

[BBFG#]

Even though I don't own it.
I will side with those that do in feeling they should have had a more reasonable upgrade price.
Loyalty should count for something.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

The question becomes,,,,,,,, will you bite?

actually, the question for me is "for how long will i have a choice"

i am not begrudging anyone this update; clearly it has made a lot of people very happy. for me, there is nothing essential here. omnisphere, as it stands (as it had been till 2 days ago), was just about perfect.

i was never much into the idea of it having sample import (in omnisphere), but i can see how others saw it as a dealbreaker. of the rest of the improvements, i was most pleased with the browser lock, match etc. the synth improvements look good, but i can do without them

i'd be happy if omnisphere 1 would be maintained for os compatibility, but that's not going to happen. so i will be forced into upgrading or just letting it die

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Even though I don't own it.
I will side with those that do in feeling they should have had a more reasonable upgrade price.
Loyalty should count for something.

maybe i have got it wrong, but i am pretty sure the total retail is the same for 2 as 1. is that right ??

[neverenoughfunk]

not sure how the update price is too steep... Omnisphere is a luxury item to start with... how many synths on the market cost $500? they are charging half to upgrade... and for customers who own all their products... $199..

when those $200 synths get updated... how much is the upgrade price? half?

Omnisphere is not for everyone... but for those who enjoys Omnisphere... $249/$199 is worth it...

another point... for "some" who do use Omnisphere... that is the only synth they use... therefore... they do not have to budget their money to keep their other synths up to date... with 10k patches (add the trillian library/sound design capabilities... not sure how many patches is that), with the sound design capabilities and sample import... at some point the ball should be in the court of the "user" and not the "tool"!!!

right? maybe?

[Jace-BeOS]

Welcome to the human race. Are you really surprised?

To quote a friend: "I know so much bad stuff, but I can still be shocked on occasion."

But nah. Not so much. I just thought people would be really jazzed for that most requested feature. When companies say "we've added our customers' most requested feature", it's often hard for me to believe. But in this case, I witnessed the constant bashing of Omnisphere for lacking user sample import. For years. I had first hand evidence that Spectrasonics was being sincere.

Meh. It's out of my price range, so I'm not really involved. Should I have cozy income some day, Spectrasonics is on my list of wants. Is the stuff overpriced? Maybe in modern contexts. But not in the context of the years of hard work that went into the creation of the content in it. These guys are hot leftovers from the era when quality sampling was considered professional. Or professionalism meant something. Or something or other. Today, when everyone gives out free junk that's sometimes pretty good, and companies bundle massive gigs of third-party licensed content that's acceptable but unimpressive, just to pump up their package, well, people have gotten spoiled. Like the way the stock art and photography business was killed, sampling done well has lost market respect.

I haven't watched the pricing, and I get the desire for loyalty, I really do. I rarely side with the business and almost always with the customer. In this case, I'm just kinda... Meh. It's not like Propellerhead overvaluing their half-assed GUI change or Cakewalk bundling third party plugins (which tend to get abandoned) to prop up the hollow upgrade. Spectrasonics is sort of a founding member of sound libraries for electronic instruments. If they value their content and hard work highly, so be it.

If users are bemoaning lack of OS/DAW compatibility maintenance in the version they already have (which I've just read users defending in version 1), well I can maybe empathize. I've lost quite a few bucks on abandonware myself. But it's not abandonware in this case; the path exists if it's absolutely necessary to take it.

[neverenoughfunk]

Even though I don't own it.
I will side with those that do in feeling they should have had a more reasonable upgrade price.
Loyalty should count for something.

maybe i have got it wrong, but i am pretty sure the total retail is the same for 2 as 1. is that right ??

that sounds logical...

having an opinion about something does not pertain to them... a little illogical...