Hats off, Spectrasonic! Hat’s off!Īs Omnisphere 2.5 brings four layers per patch instead of the previous two, you can just imagine how some of those new sounds can sound. I immediately went to some Access Virus sounds as I had that synth in the past, and was delighted to hear all those fat and nasty analog sounds from that model inside Omnisphere. Of course, along with all those hardware synth adopted waveforms, we get over 1,000 new presets that can be found inside the Hardware Library directory.

Not only that, if this synth has some specific set of effects, like Chorus and Flanger, tweaking any knob in the effect section will automatically load those two effects – Chorus and Flanger. So, what actually does this “support” really mean? It means that when you choose one specific model Omnisphere will load the appropriate set of waveforms and filters for that model and the end result – the sound produced inside Omnisphere – will definitely have the character of that specific hardware model. One thing is that Omnisphere now models a large number of well-known analog and virtual analog synths, along with some digital hardware models, and Spectrasonic claims that there will be even more of those in the future. But now it also support, actually work with a whole palette of synths that have their own unique character and sound, and this is just a start. What initially crosses your mind is that Omnisphere now supports your MIDI controllers and now you can use it without doing any additional programming. No matter which source you got your information from about this update, the first thing you would have heard about is the hardware integration.

As you can imagine, the devil is in the detail. But having tried all those new synths I should tell that this far from the truth. When you first read through the promo text explaining what’s new, you can easily get the wrong impression that the additions are just a “nice to have”, nothing much really. Secondly, the enhancements make this already legendary synth even better, if this is even possible.

Omnisphere 2.5, an impressive update for an already impressive virtual instrument – the best part: it’s a free update for all Omnisphere 2 users.įirst of all, Omnisphere 2.5 is a free update for all Omnisphere 2 users.

Omnisphere 2.5 update free download