Omnisphere 3 Wishlist

[Caine123]

I want a great granular engine/possibilities

I‘m not an expert - what’s missing in the current grain mode in the OSC for it to become great?

compared to other granular synths it is cumbersome and a blend between layers would be great (alchemy)

[TS-12]

*cough*Stylus RMX2*cough*

I wonder what can they add to stylus rmx, its my most used vsti, always find something useful and new in stylus rmx. It's timeless. Best vsti / loops library even after all these years. Eric Persing and his team are genious, they deserve technical Grammy for stylus rmx

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I don't love Omnisphere's GUI. I'd like more of the Osc, Filter, and Envelope settings exposed from the get-go. I think if it were wider, devoted less vertical space to the patches and layers, you have a ton of space where I'm not having to constantly click on magnifiers to edit oscs and filters. It's basically like four, one-osc per voice synthesizer layers, and I'd like to see them find a way to integrate the GUI in a way that makes it feel like one big instrument instead of four small ones.

[vertibration]

I don't love Omnisphere's GUI. I'd like more of the Osc, Filter, and Envelope settings exposed from the get-go. I think if it were wider, devoted less vertical space to the patches and layers, you have a ton of space where I'm not having to constantly click on magnifiers to edit oscs and filters. It's basically like four, one-osc per voice synthesizer layers, and I'd like to see them find a way to integrate the GUI in a way that makes it feel like one big instrument instead of four small ones.

Agreed. Needs a new modern look, easy access, skin color choices, better filters.....

[grdh20]

I would vote for Trilian and especially Stylus updates well before any Omni 3 updates.

[RememberBeats]

I would vote for Trilian and especially Stylus updates well before any Omni 3 updates.

yep, trilian has been the same for like 10 years...

[Gino.Cortesi]

I’d like to input one layer to another (esp for FM) Meaning that you could use the OSC from layer A as an input for layer B. For FM this would allow for larger ratios, and something closer to traditional FM.

The other thing I want is a more graphic way to browse the wave tables. It’s a great library, but finding waves that start or end with a certain waveforms is a challenge. Even an online reference would be valuable. Browsing samples/sound sources is well done, and I’d like something similar for waveforms.

Best regards,

Gino

[samsam]

Happy that Omni development over the versions has been awesome.

[slaambo]

Agree with noiseboyuk the tag system is impossibly clunky. Saving a patch in O2 is like filling in a government naturalization-form. Bureaucratic doesn't come into it!

I know some will throw up their hands but I would dispense with tagging altogether and concentrate on a brand nu flat-graphic GUI with DRAG N DROP for storing presets (like in Diva or Zebra).

Then we could create our own folders named by genre/type etc and just drag presets over.

Then the library would come to life. At present it's Omnisphere's Achilles Heel.

[TS-12]

only things I wish for Omnisphere 3 is faster interface response especialy under heavier memory loads, less CPU usage, and fix the issue of omnisphere opening up with blank parts that were chosen previously

[charmcitymusic]

I don't see Omni 3 anytime soon. I think Stylus RMX will be before that. I see Omni 2.7.

[zerocrossing]

For me Omnisphere has taken a back seat to other synths that are more specialized with things like user wavetable creation and analog modeled filters. Maybe the biggest shortcoming in Omnisphere 2 are the filters. They’re fine, just not particularly characterful. You need to hit the per-voice effects to get more interesting grit from them. Spectrasonics would be well served to hire a developer to write them some filters that are modeled after classics, or team up with a developer like GForce or XILS to license their technology.

My concern is that Omnisphere is already pretty resource hungry. You’re probably not going to be able to get a lot of unison voices out of good analog modeled filters. I think it would be a good trade off, just to be able to get those cool samples though some classic filter models. Maybe it’s time to do what Native Instruments did with Massive X when they abandoned support for non AVX processors. I don’t know that much about plugin development but I did notice that Massive X was able to add some really nice filter models and get good filter FM and the distortion is one of the best in a plugin instrument. Am I wrong to assume that?

[Brittlestem]

What do you wish Omnisphere 3 would have? We know someone from Spectrasonics lurks here, so let's feed them some ideas for the next version.

Faster loading GUI.

Better reverb.

Ability to mass delete/edit/merge the utterly borked tagging system

i.e. being able to merge arp/ARP/arpeggiated/arpeggio or synth pads/synth pad /pads synth/ pad synths tags.

and merge/delete unused/unwanted genres/moods

that you end up with if you buy 3rd party presets.

[vertibration]

For me Omnisphere has taken a back seat to other synths that are more specialized with things like user wavetable creation and analog modeled filters. Maybe the biggest shortcoming in Omnisphere 2 are the filters. They’re fine, just not particularly characterful. You need to hit the per-voice effects to get more interesting grit from them. Spectrasonics would be well served to hire a developer to write them some filters that are modeled after classics, or team up with a developer like GForce or XILS to license their technology.

My concern is that Omnisphere is already pretty resource hungry. You’re probably not going to be able to get a lot of unison voices out of good analog modeled filters. I think it would be a good trade off, just to be able to get those cool samples though some classic filter models. Maybe it’s time to do what Native Instruments did with Massive X when they abandoned support for non AVX processors. I don’t know that much about plugin development but I did notice that Massive X was able to add some really nice filter models and get good filter FM and the distortion is one of the best in a plugin instrument. Am I wrong to assume that?

MX is awesome......Omni 2 needs help imo.....its at 2.6, and if they plan on 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9 before they come out with 3, I think we are in for a really loooooong wait

[grdh20]

I would vote for Trilian and especially Stylus updates well before any Omni 3 updates.

yes, please....