Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3
Product information "Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3"
Version 3.0 – What's New
Thousands of brand-new sounds, faster access, same size
- A truly huge new factory collection with 18 impressive libraries and thousands of super-creative, inspiring new sounds from the award-winning Spectrasonics sound design team.
- New curated libraries – find exactly the sounds you need in a flash thanks to carefully organised collections arranged by use case.
- Greatly improved browser experience with a new organisation system.
- Unique new, deeply sampled sound sources, including Blown Ostrich Egg, Tonal Sand, Nyckelharpa, Celestaphone, Lyre Harp, Magic Wand Metallophones, Sul Tasto Cello, Percussive Snow, Piano Harmonics, Tongue Slap Flute and many more.
- Original patches revised and remastered – now with the latest v3 features and effects.
- More sounds, same footprint! Thanks to new lossless optimisation technology, the complete Omnisphere 3 factory library requires no more disk space than Omnisphere 2.
New Adaptive Global Control
Adjust Omnisphere's overall sound in an instant with the new Global Controls, which allow simple tweaking of the key tonal characteristics: Tone, Ambience, Filter, Envelope, Vibrato and Unison.
These intelligent controls analyse the patch automatically – and always produce musically useful results, no matter which sound you pick.
New Patch Mutations
With a single click Omnisphere 3 can now instantly generate fascinating and useful variations of any patch – from subtle to extreme.
Each mutation is saved automatically so you can return to it later with ease.
New Synthesis Features
- Powerful new Quadzone modulation for dramatic sonic movement.
- Expanded filter module with 36 new filter types across seven tonal characters: Classic, Jupiter, Beefy, OB, French, Subtle and Sauce.
- New circuit-modelled filter saturation.
- New polyphonic dual frequency shifter.
- Oscillator drift function for authentic analogue instability.
- Oscillators now include over 600 morphing wavetables.
- New Unison phase scatter, mix and analog features open lush possibilities in Sample mode.
- New glide modes: OBXA/Minimoog/Odyssey curves, Auto-Bend Up/Down, Glissando.
- Granular, Unison and Harmonia can now be mixed simultaneously.
Greatly expanded hardware integration
For the first time Omnisphere's unique hardware integration has been extended to work with almost any MIDI controller. Over 300 new hardware profiles are included in version 3 – with support for popular keyboards and synthesizers from Roland, Korg, Yamaha, Nord, Novation, Arturia, M-Audio, Studiologic, ASM, Alesis, Akai, Behringer, Casio, Native Instruments, Nektar, CME, Kurzweil, Kawai, IK Multimedia and many more.
In addition to the hundreds of newly supported MIDI keyboards, Omnisphere v3 also includes brand-new profiles for the following user-requested synthesizers:
- ASM Hydrasynth
- Moog Muse
- Moog One
- Moog Messenger
- Moog Subsequent 25
- Oberheim OB-X8
- Oberheim TEO-5
- Sequential Trigon 6
- Sequential Prophet 5/10
- Sequential Take 5
- Sequential Pro 3
- Roland Jupiter X
- Roland Jupiter Xm
- Roland JD-08
- Roland JX-08
- Roland JU-06A
- UDO Super Gemini
- UDO Super 8
- UDO Super 6
- Nord Wave 2
- Behringer Wave
- Behringer PRO 800
- Behringer UB-XA
- IK Multimedia UNO
- Novation Summit
- Novation K-Station
- Novation X-Station
- Modal Argon 8
- Modal Cobalt 8
- Modal Cobalt 5
- Arturia MatrixBrute
- Arturia MiniFreak
New expression features
- New MPE mode with full support for MIDI Polyphonic Expression controllers.
- Intelligent polyphonic modulation automatically detects when poly aftertouch or MPE devices are used, and dynamically switches LFOs and envelopes.
- New Adaptive MIDI-Scaling mode enables seamless hardware control and MIDI assignment in live use.
- New smoothing algorithms provide more organic, analogue-like response from MIDI controllers – with separate settings for rise and fall times.
Major FX upgrade with 35 impressive "Next-Gen" effects
Includes numerous new, incredibly sounding effect modules:
REVERBS
- Super Verb
- Velvet Verb
- Solar Shimmer
- Inversions
DELAYS
- Refraction Delay
- Swiss Army Delay
- Backwards Echo
- Magnetic Echo
CREATIVE
- Flip Backward
- Pump-O-matic
- Half Speeder
- Warp Shifter
- Pulsar Split
- Ring of Fire
MODULATION
- Unstable Drifter
- Chameleon Chorus
- Barberpole Phaser
EQUALIZERS
- Super Channel
- Vintage British Desk
- 1970s Class-A Console
- Classic Tube 2-Band
- Classic Tube Midband
- Classic Tube Filters
DYNAMICS
- Optical Leveling Amp
- Multiband Compressor
- Classic 1176 Limiter
- Solid State Mix Buss
- 1950s Tube Compressor
COLOR
- Analog Studio Tape+Console
- Vintage Enhancer
- Tube Saturator
- Noisemaker
DISTORTION
- Multiband Distortion
- Tube Overdrive
- Mean Machine
More highlights of Version 3:
- Completely redesigned browser
- Extensive implementation of subcategories
- New folder-tree view in the full browser
- New "Hide" feature – hide sounds you don't need
- New library artwork for an engaging visual experience
- Simplified tagging system with keywords and moods
- Full backward compatibility with all previous versions of Omnisphere
System requirements:
- Processor: 2.4 GHz or faster
- Memory (RAM): 8 GB (16 GB or more recommended)
- Storage: 64 GB free disk space
Mac users
- Operating system: macOS 13 Ventura or later
- Plugin formats: AU, VST3, VST2, AAX
- Architecture: Intel and Apple Silicon compatible (native)
- Host: 64-bit host software required
Windows users
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 or later
- Plugin formats: VST3, VST2, AAX
- Host: 64-bit host software required
