Published 25/2/08
Software Synthesizer
Spectrasonics’ founder and sound designer Eric Persing made an appearance at NAMM this year, having been absent from last year's NAMM show. Rumour had it that he was updating the Atmosphere and Trilogy software instruments with new engines, in the same way that the Stylus RMX ‘groove module’ was updated from the original Stylus using the then-new SAGE engine — but this seems not to have been the case.
Eric and his team were working on a new engine, but its first outing is to be with a new plug-in instrument called Omnisphere. The so-called Steam Engine underpinning this instrument is designed to support multiple synthesis methods and process samples in a very sophisticated way. While instruments based around samples are nothing new, Spectrasonics have a habit of coming up with something special and more than a hint weird.
Omnisphere was shown at the NAMM show using a limited sound set, and Eric tells us it won’t be shipping until September 15th this year, as there’s the huge task ahead of cataloguing and organising the samples that will go into its substantial library. After that, who knows what the age of Steam will bring?
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Eric and his team were working on a new engine, but its first outing is to be with a new plug-in instrument called Omnisphere. The so-called Steam Engine underpinning this instrument is designed to support multiple synthesis methods and process samples in a very sophisticated way. While instruments based around samples are nothing new, Spectrasonics have a habit of coming up with something special and more than a hint weird.
Omnisphere was shown at the NAMM show using a limited sound set, and Eric tells us it won’t be shipping until September 15th this year, as there’s the huge task ahead of cataloguing and organising the samples that will go into its substantial library. After that, who knows what the age of Steam will bring?
Time + Space +44 (0)1837 55200
www.timespace.com
www.spectrasonics.net
