Which synth was considered the precursor to Omnisphere?

[timboalogo]

It's on the tip of my tongue! Early 2000's, and a free synth if I remember correctly ...

[Korg Supporter]

Atmosphere, but that was commercial

[noiseresearch]

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/crystal-by-green-oak

[IvyBirds]

The original precursor to Omnisphere was called atmosphere which came out in 2002. Spectrasonics licensed it's synthesis engine from UVI. Before that Eric was working on Roland hardware engines like the XV and Fantom line

[Echoes in the Attic]

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/crystal-by-green-oak

The developer of Crystal went to work for Spectrasonics but while it came before Omnisphere, I wouldn't consider this a precursor to it.

[timboalogo]

Thanks, Crystal was the one I was thinking of. I remember reading that it was considered the precursor, but for sure Atmosphere was as well.

You're geniuses, one and all!
Timbo

[Ah_Dziz]

Atmosphere was definitely it. If I'm remembering things correctly there was a direct upgrade path from atmosphere to omnisphere.

[Aloysius]

One Ping Only

[CrystalWizard]

Thanks, Crystal was the one I was thinking of. I remember reading that it was considered the precursor, but for sure Atmosphere was as well.

You're geniuses, one and all!
Timbo

Just Atmosphere, not Crystal, which i really like for some reason ;-}

[audiojunkie]

The original precursor to Omnisphere was called atmosphere which came out in 2002. Spectrasonics licensed it's synthesis engine from UVI. Before that Eric was working on Roland hardware engines like the XV and Fantom line

Atmosphere came from Native Instruments, not UVI, AFAIK.

Edit: nevermind--I'm thinking Absynth.

Edit 2: It's been so long, but everyone used to talk about it all the time. I did a quick lookup, and it appears that:

Brian Clevinger was the programmer and creator of the Native Instruments Absynth plugin. He originally released Absynth through his own company, Rhizomatic, in 2000 before it was acquired and distributed by Native Instruments starting in 2001, with Clevinger continuing as the chief developer.

and....

The programmer of the Green Oak Crystal plugin is Glenn Olander. He is the developer behind Green Oak Software and is also known for his work with Spectrasonics, where he contributed to plugins like Stylus RMX, Omnisphere, and Trilian.

So, they are different developers. However:

Absynth and Green Oak Crystal are both software synthesizers, but Crystal is a free, semi-modular synthesizer while Absynth is a more complex, powerful, and historically more expensive and professional synthesizer. Crystal is known for its powerful free capabilities, while Absynth is often praised for its deep sound design features--many of Crystal's features are similar to Absynth, and its creator has stated that it was inspired by Absynth.

So there IS a relationship between the two somewhere in there.

[IvyBirds]

The original precursor to Omnisphere was called atmosphere which came out in 2002. Spectrasonics licensed it's synthesis engine from UVI. Before that Eric was working on Roland hardware engines like the XV and Fantom line

Atmosphere came from Native Instruments, not UVI, AFAIK.

According to Spectrasonics

"When it was introduced in 2002, our Atmosphere - Dream Synth Module broke new ground as the world's first virtual instrument dedicated towards unique sound design, pads and Atmospheric textures, integrating a large library of unique sounds with a powerful, yet easy to understand user interface based on the UVI engine.

https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/ ... tmosphere/

Beyond that the four UVI filters are still included inside of Omnisphere even the new version 3. They even made a brand new fifth enhanced UVI filter called "French LPF 2/4 poles" which they say was an enhanced UVI filter

https://support.spectrasonics.net/manua ... ers-page11

UVI is a French company which is why they call it French Filter

[billinder33]

I would have guessed the Kurzweil k2000. Too obscure?

[DCrown]

Xpand by AIR?

[GlennO]

The correct answer is Crystal .

[osiris]

I wanted Atmosphere so badly, but $300 AND 3 Gigabytes of space was just not there.