Most importantly, it’s easy for musicians to use – simply by selecting the hardware synth from the drop-down HW menu. The new development system also allows Spectrasonics to add new profiles for new hardware synths in the future. This new system allows Spectrasonics to enable sophisticated interactions from a single touch of a knob, including the ability for Omnisphere to automatically recall entire FX racks, assign multiple scaled parameters and even instantly create complex modulation matrix routings on-the-fly.

Under the hood, Spectrasonics’ development team has designed unique “Hardware Profiles” for each supported hardware synthesizer, making the special features of that hardware work seamlessly with Omnisphere, translating MIDI messages from the hardware into satisfying sonic results in Omnisphere. The new Hardware Synth Integration feature in v2.5 goes far beyond the typical “MIDI Learn” approaches that many software synthesizers employ. The supported hardware synths cover a wide range of types and price ranges. The initial release will officially support over 20 popular hardware synthesizers from Moog, Dave Smith Instruments, Roland, Korg, Behringer, Novation, and Sequential, with more to come. The new feature bridges the physical experience gap between software and hardware, allowing users intuitive control along with the ability to easily create and modify Omnisphere sounds by using the familiar layout of their supported hardware synth with minimal setup. With version 2.5, Omnisphere becomes the first software synth to offer a Hardware Synth Integration feature, which transforms well-known hardware synthesizers into hands-on controllers for unlocking Omnisphere’s newly-expanded synthesis capabilities.

At Superbooth this morning, Spectrasonics announced a major update of its flagship software synthesizer, Omnisphere.

Omnisphere 2.5