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Run is a short track, by sound designer Hans-Jörg Scheffler, that shows off his work with the new Spectrasonics Omnisphere synthesizer.

 

This short video, Train of thought, is by Hans-Jörg Scheffler and features his work with Omnisphere.
Footage was taken looking outside the window from the Shinkanze on the way from Hamamatsu to Tokyo by my good friend Tommy Snyder.
I manipulated the raw footage in V-Track and composed the soundtrack with the new Omnisphere Softsynth from Spectrasonics for all instruments [...]

 

Spectrasonics has announced that Omnisphere, its hotly anticipated mega-synth, is now shipping with an MSRP of $499 US and €379 Euro.
Omnisphere is cross-platform, compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4 and higher as a native Universal Binary and also with Microsoft Windows XP/Vista. Audio Units, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats are supported for compatibility with [...]

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icon for podpress  Spectrasonics Omnisphere: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Spectrasonics has released the latest of their Omnisphere videos. This episode takes a look at the browser and, in doing so, also takes a look at the history of synth browsers.
Kudos to Spectrasonics for making us drool over a software synthesizer six months before it’s going to be released. These are some of the best [...]

 

 
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Spectrasonics is doing a great job with their Omnisphere videos. Somebody there “gets” Internet media, podcasting and the idea that your best marketing is just doing something awesome that people will want to talk about.
Their latest video intros a new contest and dribbles out some more info about Omnisphere.

 

 
icon for podpress  Spectrasonics Omnisphere Arpeggiator: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Spectrasonics is doing a great job with its video series introducing its new mega-synth Omnisphere.
This episode looks at the history of the arpeggiator, including lots of great synth porn along the way. The second half of the video digs into the Omnisphere arpeggiator, which looks very intuitive.
If you’ve got a video iPod or iPhone, you [...]

 

 
icon for podpress  Omnisphere 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Spectrasonics takes a look at psychoascoustic sampling in Omnisphere - its upcoming mega virtual instrument.

 

The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year.
We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for 2008’s [...]