Is Omnisphere 2 still worth it?

[noiseboyuk]

Top designers are there because they deliver the goods, regardless of whether or not people know their names. Point being - over the last few years, the level of patch design has been outstanding. I think they learned from the EDM Spotlight library which is almost the only library they've done to have missed the mark imo. Seth Norman does an amazing job now covering those genres. He did only a few (of the best ones) in Spotlight.

[Jac459]

Jac I can honestly answer no to all 3 of your suppositions. noiseboyuk wrote top designers.. in recall.. I said big names in error, same difference really.

If presets were good and made by the homeless I would buy them.I make my 95pct of my own sounds and only recently have purchased some presets so buying presets is a new thing for me personally.

Significant big name stuff really sucks for a variety of reasons. Price, over rated, slow, bad taste, low quality etc. Food is a great example. I could name many things in life, especially brands.. that follow this trait but I know you know this anyway. You learn it to be so as life progresses.

There are exceptions but in modern times, especially the last decade or so, brand and name means diddly squat in many instances.

Well you will say that we play on words but there is a pretty big difference of reasoning between "brands' and 'creators".

I could agree on brands, I don't on creators...
Reason being that in my personal experience I have been quite successful searching for new art to consume browsing by the creators I like...

Anyway, everybody is different and I don't think there is right or wrong. let's agree to disagree my friend.
I was just curious about your statement.

[Synthman2000]

Xpand2! is going for peanuts... £10/$12/€12 include an organ, Mono synth Vintage Vacuum and also Baby Audio Come Back Kid delay for free (add it as free gift at check out). Probably one of the best 10/12 you could spend on plug ins.

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[BJ]

Xpand2! is going for peanuts... £10/$12/€12 include an organ, Mono synth Vintage Vacuum and also Baby Audio Come Back Kid delay for free (add it as free gift at check out). Probably one of the best 10/12 you could spend on plug ins.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-1

Xpand2! really is the Omnisphere killer

[HydrogenHuman]

Xpand2! is going for peanuts... £10/$12/€12 include an organ, Mono synth Vintage Vacuum and also Baby Audio Come Back Kid delay for free (add it as free gift at check out). Probably one of the best 10/12 you could spend on plug ins.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-1

Xpand2! really is the Omnisphere killer

Biggest problems with Xpand2 for me is
1. No VST3 support
2. Small UI that can't be resized.

If both of those problems were addressed, then it would be great option.

[Stopani]

Omnisphere is a huge resource of sound, gets updated with new content once in a while and attracts great 3rd sound designers to make great patch libraries.

The down side is that it takes up huge amounts of CPU which for a ROMpler I don't understand.

[syntonica]

Xpand2! is going for peanuts... £10/$12/€12 include an organ, Mono synth Vintage Vacuum and also Baby Audio Come Back Kid delay for free (add it as free gift at check out). Probably one of the best 10/12 you could spend on plug ins.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-1

Xpand2! really is the Omnisphere killer

Xpsnd2! sounds like crap and it wasn't worth the $1 I spent on it.

[mixyguy2]

I've no interest in this thing, I just wanted to post so there weren't 666 replies anymore :shiver:

[Dirtgrain]

The down side is that it takes up huge amounts of CPU which for a ROMpler I don't understand.

Have only noticed it being light on CPU. Must depend on what engine is being used.

[syntonica]

The down side is that it takes up huge amounts of CPU which for a ROMpler I don't understand.

Have only noticed it being light on CPU. Must depend on what engine is being used.

And which effects.

[Jac459]

I've no interest in this thing, I just wanted to post so there weren't 666 replies anymore :shiver:

[CrystalWizard]

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[CrystalWizard]

The down side is that it takes up huge amounts of CPU which for a ROMpler I don't understand.

Have only noticed it being light on CPU. Must depend on what engine is being used.

And which effects.

Amongst my machines i run Omni on a 2014 dell i7 running windows 7, with a whopping 8G Ram, i have to program up a storm to put a dent in CPU. RAM on the other hand...

[Tulihenki]

Xpand2! is going for peanuts... £10/$12/€12 include an organ, Mono synth Vintage Vacuum and also Baby Audio Come Back Kid delay for free (add it as free gift at check out). Probably one of the best 10/12 you could spend on plug ins.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-1

Thanks for mentioning this! Comeback delay is really cool. I took another package.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/products ... ynths-Pack

About actual topic I have been occasionally dreaming Omni but price has been stopping me.

[noiseboyuk]

The down side is that it takes up huge amounts of CPU which for a ROMpler I don't understand.

And there it is - quite a lot of pages now since the celebrated ROMpler myth has raised its dumb head.

That aside, I went to use one of the NI Light series this week (I forget which one). First patch I pressed hit the buffers on my CPU. A sample based instrument. The moment effects and techniques like granular are used, CPU sky-rockets.

I do think there are a few effects in Omni that are way too CPU-hungry - often swapping them out solves CPU issues, but that is a PITA.