Cool, thanks, will give it a look. I don’t actually have any synths that can control it just now but a heap of nice presets is always good.
Awesome interview by our very own @cuckoomusic and Eric Persing, the genius and man behind Spectrasonics.
Eric seems like a top bloke, has to be one of the nicest and humble guys in the music industry
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Spoiler…Nice signing off “Two dirty words at Spectrasonics = Content and Rompler!”
Very long interview, congrats to Cuckoo for his continual and seamingly fearless attitude to just getting out and doing stuff. Yep, Eric continues to have the healthiest attitude to his business and shows deep love for his work.
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What a fantastic idea and a great update. It’s almost the other way round to normal, software changing to suit the hardware rather than the usual hardware controller trying to change to suit the software. This is going to be a revelation for Omni2 users, can’t wait to grab the beta!
They need to support more Synths…please!
Hoping they add Virus Ti2 to the list.
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It’s $AU689, it would want to be a pretty amazing piece of software. It costs more than quite a few hardware synths…
It is pretty amazing. Value for money judgments are difficult to generalize, but I think it is well worth the price. This new hardware integration has me really excited though.
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It’s actually cheaper to get the USB drive version from a retailer which is… odd.
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Yeah, Omnisphere is amazing, no question.
This has been released now - sometime in the last week I think. I didn’t participate in the beta program so its all new to me. And so much fun using my sub 37 to control it. Integration is amazing!
awesome presentation
Amazing upgrade and free as well! Works great with my SH-01a, will be trying it with my Monologue at some point today.
Interesting how it models the hardware. Have to say I have an ob6 and his demo sounded pretty impressive. Wonder if you can add more LFOs, as ob6 only has one plus the x-mod.
It’s pretty cheeky though, wonder if he has got the hardware manufacturers off side 
The presets associated with each of the currently supported hardware controllers do attempt to mimic the functionality of the conntroller. I dont think the focus was on making presets that would be considered exact copies of the orginal hardware, but it is impressive how much of the “flavor” they do capture.
But keep in mind that these are just presets with some impressive programming going on under the hood to associate all the knobs and buttons with the software - this goes way beyond what you can always do with midi-learn. You can still modify and add/change any part of that. So you can certainly add more lfos than what the hardware has. But if you want to control those extra lfos using the hardware as your controller, then you would need to devise a way to switch knob functionality.
I can see a lot of thought was put into how to make associations between the hardware controllers and the software. Even if you chose presets that dont match the hardware, there is still a pretty good correlation that makes it possible to work with (to a point) without feeling like anything has broken.
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I want a hardware version of Omnisphere! I don‘t care how much it cost, i would rob a bank for it!
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Roland Integra 7 is probably the closest you’ll get
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MacBook + Audio Card + Some of the HW Omnisphere 2.5 is as close as you get. Close the lid on the laptop and you’re there in hardware land.
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damned! I should have tried this, instead of spending all my money on gear.
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I have a jd-xi which has the same sound engine. I’m sure this thing is awesome, but it’s no substitute to the flexibility of Omnispeher.
Luckily i own a pretty decent eurorack since a few months, which is super flexible, but unlike Omnispehre, my modular has no polyphony an no ability to save patches.