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PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:27 am

Ben H wrote:I feel like a kid counting down the sleeps until Xmas.

Exactly!

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:34 am

As an Omnisphere owner, I'd love to get excited about this but I just can't. I missed the free upgrade cutoff by a month (story of my life).

I look at what Omni 2 would give me and it essentially comes down to a few more filters, sounds, FX and wave import ability. But it's still essentially the same synth. There is nothing radically different here that I can justify spending $250 on, which would be more money than I've ever spent on any full featured synth ever including Zebra 2.

And when you look at it that way, the extra features of Omni 2, at $250, do not come close to all that you get with Zebra 2, at $200.

So I'm going to be passing on this update.

I'm happy for all the folks who are excited about this and can't wait to get it. It's nice to get excited about things. It's what makes life fun.

I'll wait for Omni 3 where, hopefully, the upgrade cost can be justified when you're essentially getting a brand new synth.

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:46 am

wagtunes wrote: I'll wait for Omni 3 where, hopefully, the upgrade cost can be justified when you're essentially getting a brand new synth.

I hope you're a very patient man as you may well be waiting 5+ years for Omnisphere 3. Or there may never even be another a version….

Spectrasonics are not like Izotope - they don't add (or take away) a feature, call it a new version, and charge you for an upgrade every year. On past form they will tweak Omnisphere 2 for many years to come and not charge anything for those improvements.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:48 am

lnikj wrote:
wagtunes wrote: I'll wait for Omni 3 where, hopefully, the upgrade cost can be justified when you're essentially getting a brand new synth.
I hope you're a very patient man as you may well be waiting 5+ years for Omnisphere 3. Or there may never even be another a version….

Spectrasonics are not like Izotope - they don't add (or take away) a feature, call it a new version, and charge you for an upgrade every year. On past form they will tweak Omnisphere 2 for many years to come and not charge anything for those improvements.

and if Onni 2 ever reaches the point (through improvements) that it's essentially Omni 3, at that time I'll upgrade.

But right now, for me anyway, there isn't $250 worth of improvements.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:55 am

lnikj wrote:
wagtunes wrote: I'll wait for Omni 3 where, hopefully, the upgrade cost can be justified when you're essentially getting a brand new synth.
I hope you're a very patient man as you may well be waiting 5+ years for Omnisphere 3. Or there may never even be another a version….

Spectrasonics are not like Izotope - they don't add (or take away) a feature, call it a new version, and charge you for an upgrade every year. On past form they will tweak Omnisphere 2 for many years to come and not charge anything for those improvements.

yes, izotope sucks a**

neverenoughfunk · Post by **neverenoughfunk** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:36 pm

wagtunes wrote: But right now, for me anyway, there isn't $250 worth of improvements.

your sound like you are trying to convince yourself it's not worth $250 for the upgrade...

i cant count how many times in this thread you have said... Omnisphere 2 is not for me...

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:48 pm

neverenoughfunk wrote:
wagtunes wrote: But right now, for me anyway, there isn't $250 worth of improvements.
your sound like you are trying to convince yourself it's not worth $250 for the upgrade...

i cant count how many times in this thread you have said... Omnisphere 2 is not for me...

I don't have to convince myself. It doesn't give me enough "new" synth for $250. And given that I've had this thing for a little over a half a year, no, I'm NOT spending another $250 on it.

Down the road, maybe after they've added ten tons of stuff to Omni 2, maybe THEN I'll spend the money. Right now, the value isn't there.

And there is no convincing to be done. Omni 1 is an amazing synth and is just fine the way it is.

tshear23 · Post by **tshear23** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:13 pm

I'm so glad I'm not a software developer. There really is no making some people happy.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:18 pm

wagtunes do you missed the grace period just by a few days it seems? Thats not funny..

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:21 pm

tshear23 wrote:I'm so glad I'm not a software developer. There really is no making some people happy.

No, when somebody has had a synth for all of 7 months and they have to shell out another $250 for an upgrade, no, they're not going to be happy.

You make it sound like I hate Omnisphere. I don't. It is one of my top 5 favorite synths and only the 5th synth I ever paid money for after downloading hundreds of free VSTs. In fact, these are the first 5 synths I ever purchased in order.

Synthmaster
ACE
Zebra 2
Serum
Omnisphere

For me to spend money on a synth, I had to really love it.

All the versions of Serum that have come out since I made that purchase have been free upgrades, and I've had that synth longer than Omnisphere. I don't think allowing a 1 year grace period would have killed them. That to me would have been fair.

So my objection to spending $250 after just buying this synth 7 months ago has nothing to do with the quality of the synth overall but the fact that I've had it all of 7 months.

That still takes nothing away from Omni 1 being one of my top 5 favorite synths.

basslinemaster · Post by **basslinemaster** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:23 pm

wagtunes wrote: I don't have to convince myself. It doesn't give me enough "new" synth for $250. And given that I've had this thing for a little over a half a year, no, I'm spending another $250 on it.

You changed your mind quickly!

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:28 pm

basslinemaster wrote:
wagtunes wrote: I don't have to convince myself. It doesn't give me enough "new" synth for $250. And given that I've had this thing for a little over a half a year, no, I'm spending another $250 on it.

You changed your mind quickly!

You know very well that was a typo. I have not changed my mind.

noiseboyuk · Post by **noiseboyuk** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:08 pm

wagtunes wrote:I look at what Omni 2 would give me and it essentially comes down to a few more filters, sounds, FX and wave import ability.

Well, and 400 morphing wavetables. And unison drift. And a totally new browser with soundmatch and sound lock. And expanded FM and ring mod. And 20gb of new sound sources. And expanded modulation. And an expanded ARP. And a new granular engine. But apart from that, yeah just filters, sounds, fx and wave import. Mainly.

I get that you have to convince yourself that there's not that much in it by ignoring a good 75% of the new features and thus finding that its just tweaking at the margins, but fwiw I think your JOGG (Just Outside the Grace-period Grievance) Syndrome is clouding your judgement.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:19 pm

can wt's be imported?

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:20 pm

So if you couldn't fight GAS by time you can get JOGG? WTF???

Omnisphere 2 is here! (yes, it's really here!)