Omnisphere 3

[Dirk Diggler]

I don't believe Omnisphere 3 is using multi-cores in stand alone or VST. However why not just use multiple instances tracks/channels instead?
You could check in your DAW as it may handle your cores better.

[BJ]

Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks

A single instance of Omni though it has 8 slots does not use multiple cores. If you're cpu can't handle 8 slots at once try opening multiple instances and it will spread it over different cores.

[OscSync]

Is it just me or does Omnisphere have the shittest preset browser of any synth, ever?

[BBFG#]

That goes more to DiscoDSP or any others still using a momentary drop down menu.

[IvyBirds]

Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks

I do this all time. In fact I am currently doing it with three different computers. Two for synths, and one for effects. It's actually a good way to bring new life to old/spare computers.

I use a software program called Audio Gridder. It's free and open sourced.

https://audiogridder.com/

Essentially the extra computers become "DSP Servers". On these DSP Servers you launch an instance of Audio Gridder and host the plugin inside of it. In your DAW on a track you then launch the Audio Gridder plugin it will see the server and the instance and it will send MIDI or Audio to it, and then the plugin across the network will send audio back.

If you run additional instances each one will be on a new core. So if you have 8 available cores you can run 8 instances and they all go on different cores. That can be 8 different Synths or the same synth running as 8 different instances

You can even pull up the GUI from a plugin on one of the DSP servers on your main DAW computer

[Dirk Diggler]

Another option to Audio Gridder is VB Audio Matrix.
https://vb-audio.com/Matrix/index.htm

If you're on a windows box, make sure you open your ports on your firewall.

[buzz1]

Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks

I do this all time. In fact I am currently doing it with three different computers. Two for synths, and one for effects. It's actually a good way to bring new life to old/spare computers.

I use a software program called Audio Gridder. It's free and open sourced.

https://audiogridder.com/

Essentially the extra computers become "DSP Servers". On these DSP Servers you launch an instance of Audio Gridder and host the plugin inside of it. In your DAW on a track you then launch the Audio Gridder plugin it will see the server and the instance and it will send MIDI or Audio to it, and then the plugin across the network will send audio back.

If you run additional instances each one will be on a new core. So if you have 8 available cores you can run 8 instances and they all go on different cores. That can be 8 different Synths or the same synth running as 8 different instances

You can even pull up the GUI from a plugin on one of the DSP servers on your main DAW computer

Many thanks for a very helpful post. And to BJ and Dirk diggler also.
I will investigate this further.

[IvyBirds]

Apologies if I have missed this elsewhere, but is Omni 3 multi core/thread enabled and if so how many can it use at once?
I am lucky enough to have a spare computer and am thinking of using Omni 3 as a kind of multitimbral sound module in stand alone mode.
But this is only practical if it can use more than one core/thread per instance.
Anyone have any experience of this sort of application?
Thanks

I do this all time. In fact I am currently doing it with three different computers. Two for synths, and one for effects. It's actually a good way to bring new life to old/spare computers.

I use a software program called Audio Gridder. It's free and open sourced.

https://audiogridder.com/

Essentially the extra computers become "DSP Servers". On these DSP Servers you launch an instance of Audio Gridder and host the plugin inside of it. In your DAW on a track you then launch the Audio Gridder plugin it will see the server and the instance and it will send MIDI or Audio to it, and then the plugin across the network will send audio back.

If you run additional instances each one will be on a new core. So if you have 8 available cores you can run 8 instances and they all go on different cores. That can be 8 different Synths or the same synth running as 8 different instances

You can even pull up the GUI from a plugin on one of the DSP servers on your main DAW computer

Many thanks for a very helpful post. And to BJ and Dirk diggler also.
I will investigate this further.

You are welcome, it you go the Gig Performer route I HIGHLY recommend that you don't use WIFI and have wired dedicated Gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbps) network and switch/router. Don't use the network for anything else. This is rather cheap and easy to set up and on windows anyway it's easy switch back and forth between using WIFI for when you want to connect to the Internet and turning that off to just use the wired connection. My DSP Server boxes are hardly ever connected to the internet.

Your DSP Servers can be either Windows or Mac machines and can be mixed and matched. That comes in handy if your main computer is say a Mac and you want to run plugins that are Windows only you can just run them on the DSP server and your Mac will just see and interact with the Audiogridder AU plugin

Your DSP servers also don't need to be the latest and greatest computers. I am running a very very ancient Windows 7 laptop (that I upgraded to 10) as one of my DSP servers. You can strip Windows down to the absolute bare bones. Have no antivirus, no Ai, no Windows Update, no nothing but Audiogridder which is very light on CPU and a single plugin running on each core

[legendCNCD]

OMG. Installed it on Saturday and already started doing projects with it. The sounds, OSCs, new filters and new effects. Holy ...

And we just scratched a bit of the surface. I think the whole package sounds better than 2 now, there is more this kind of solidity and presence in the 3rd iteration DSP. I think it takes a bit more CPU too.

Fell in love with Velvet Reverb instantly I can't help it... the LA2A also was really meaty sounding. Warm Tones were lovely. The package is just full on quality.
Need to play more with it soon.