KVR Audio

Audiority · Post by **Audiority** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:43 am

As far as I understood, you can only map the root key by adding the note name to your sample file (or having it as a metadata). In this test I mapped the sample at C5 and worked as expected.

Phorous · Post by **Phorous** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:52 am

Innerspace and the new granular engine =

Rajah · Post by **Rajah** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:57 am

Audiority wrote:Mine is an upgrade, so I guess my download was quicker. The installer files are 20GB, but I guess that the download archive is approx 14GB. Both download, installing and authorizing went flawlessly.

Just ran a quick test. I found some presets to be heavy (over 1GB of sampled content!) but the sonic quality is VERY good. The User Audio feature, even if limited to one sample per layer, works like a charm. Their resampler is really good. This is a short video I took using only 1 sample from one of my commercial sample libraries.

Nice... Really Nice... Don't stop... Let's hear/see some more.... Please..

Tinnitus · Post by **Tinnitus** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:08 am

Can imported audio be looped for sustained notes? Seems like such an obvious feature, but I can't find any info about it.

neverfall · Post by **neverfall** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:24 am

Watching the NFL draft AND Rangers hockey right now, but when they're over I'm jumping back in the check out the rest of the EDM presets collection....and new effects. Guess I'll report back with a more in depth review after midnight.

mwalthius · Post by **mwalthius** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:28 am

I just spent about an hour playing with the new presets starting with the letter "D". Some insanely wicked sh*t in there, for sure.

Damnation
Dark Brood
Daybreak
Deceived
Deceiver
Deep Water 01
Dervishes
Deserted Shipyard
Desolation 1
Desolation 2
Devionics
Distant Drums
Dubai
Dusk 1-5
Duty Cycle

I don't really compose music that uses sounds like these, but maybe I should. Major, major soundtrack stuff in here.... lots of these patches - hold down one note for a while and see what happens.

Great stuff - very creative sound design.

Aural Chaos · Post by **Aural Chaos** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:43 am

AB69 wrote:
Aural Chaos wrote:C'mon people, there's a whole other thread to whine about downloading and installation problems- can we try to keep this one for actual impressions by people who have used it?
I just want to know how long it takes to install and how big the file is before I drop $500

So if you loved the sounds, but found out it would take two hours longer to install than you thought it would, you'd not buy it?

mwalthius · Post by **mwalthius** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:47 am

AB69 wrote: I just want to know how long it takes to install and how big the file is before I drop $500

I downloaded the upgrade and it took about 30 minutes, with a steady 10 mbps stream. My internet tests out at 120 mbps, but it obviously didn't download that fast.

The full version is probably 2.5x that size.

Astralv · Post by **Astralv** » Fri May 01, 2015 1:48 am

Nice... Really Nice... Don't stop... Let's hear/see some more.... Please..

Yes, please, more soft synth porn. Getting excited!

Phorous · Post by **Phorous** » Fri May 01, 2015 2:06 am

My first Omnisphere 2 patch, Stalactite Dance

https://soundcloud.com/voice303/omnisph ... ce/s-SXpGH

The first sound is ice being stirred in a glass of water, put through Omnisphere's new granular engine. From there it it goes through the waveshaper for some nice crushing and through a modulated Juicy filter into a delay, making its way into a gated innerspace setting... makes a cool almost vocal sounding part.

As far as I can tell there are no new "revolutionary" filters in Omnisphere 2. Juicy is as good as its gonna get at least for now... which I used in this patch and do enjoy the sound of.

DocAtlas · Post by **DocAtlas** » Fri May 01, 2015 2:15 am

Tinnitus wrote:Can imported audio be looped for sustained notes? Seems like such an obvious feature, but I can't find any info about it.

Yes, but the loop points have to be embedded in the audio file itself, according to the manual, so you would need to use an audio editor, like Sound Forge or Audacity prior to importing the file into Omnisphere.

Phorous · Post by **Phorous** » Fri May 01, 2015 2:45 am

This is for KVR memeber zerocrossing

https://soundcloud.com/voice303/furbies-on-lsd

patcub · Post by **patcub** » Fri May 01, 2015 2:48 am

how are the EDM presets? Any audio examples?

Thanks.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Fri May 01, 2015 3:04 am

AB69 wrote:What is the download size and how long did it take to install?

Just under 19GB and the time that takes is highly dependent on your Internet connection. I will say it completely saturated my link the entire time.

There is one annoying thing though: I'm not allowed to re-download the large file. My upgrade entitled me to one, and only one, download. I think I'll order a USB stick to put it on...

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Fri May 01, 2015 3:10 am

First impressions:

1. Holy hell are the sounds hot. I lowered the master volume of Omni to -6db and several sounds still clip. I'll probably keep it around -9db just to get any kind of headroom.

2. I thought there was something wrong with the latency of my keyboard, all notes felt sluggish like I was using an arp even when I wasn't. Turns out Trigger mode was enabled by default to the next note. Talk about annoying. Here's a screenshot of what I mean to help others avoid the pitfall:

EDIT: I think it was in trigger mode because I loaded a multi and then switched to browsing presets. It wasn't obvious that was what happened though so I'll leave this tip up for others just in case.

Omnisphere 2 First Impressions?