Omnisphere or Syntronik?

[szurcio]

Is Omnisphere a better purchase for classic analog synth samples than IKM Syntronik? Does it include many of them in its library or any add-on third-party libraries?

[bmrzycki]

The Omni 2 sound sources for synth sounds are of two kinds:
* raw, unprocessed oscillators (or a mixing of a few oscillators)
* highly processed "soundscapes" more in the theme of the older Atmosphere product.

You can see the list of soundsources in Omni 2 here:
https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/ ... ources.php

If you're looking for more of the raw, unprocessed variants consider adding Trilian. The synth bass collection has tons of starter waveforms and edgy sounds.
https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/trilian-lib.php

You can load Trilian sounds into Omnisphere (both the patches and the soundsources).

Finally, the Moog Tribute library has quite a few synth soundsources, but these are much more processed or niche than the ones in Omni or Trilian. Good stuff, but not bread n' butter synth sounds.
https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/ ... ibrary.php

Omni 2 also allows importing single-sample sources, allowing for third party developers (or you) to add in whatever source they desire. It's not as complex or comprehensive as the native sounds but it is at least one more avenue to import samples. Don't think sampler, think sample-oscillator...

I know next to nothing about Syntronik, hopefully someone else can give you background on it.

[dmbaer]

How deeply do you like/need to tweak sounds? If you are mainly a "just the presets as they are" type player, Syntronik is just for you. That's not to say that you cannot do some significant tweaking in Syntronik, but you cannot do it nearly as deeply as in Omnisphere.

Syntronik is jam-packed with superb samples, both fairly basic, unfiltered raw waveforms and sample sets of sweeps, etc. There is a *ton* of sample content, and I think it was an incredible effort to collect it all. To me, Omnisphere has much to commend it, but it has a more of its focus on non-traditional, very contemporary synth applications (as opposed to classic analog). No burning pianos in Syntronik, that's for sure, but plenty of the sounds of the legends of early synth music (Carlos, Wakeman, Vangelis, Jarre, etc.).

There will be a fairly in-depth review of Syntronik in the next issue SoundBytes Magazine (soundbytesmag.net) - available in about ten days.

Edit: By the way, this is not the best place to ask this particular question. Omnisphere has very limited sample capability for using user-supplied samples, and Syntronik has none. The KVR Instruments forum would be a better place (and there's been plenty of discussion of both these instruments there - you won't likely have time to read it all).

[Windy23451]

So many possibilities with Omnisphere. It's in a league of it's own.

[quantum7]

Omnisphere!!!