Spectrasonics has long been a favorite sample library producer of mine. Atmoshpere was a ground-breaking virtual instrument when it was first released and Spectrasonics has followed up with another excellent VI in the form of Omnisphere. The latest incarnation of what they call a ‘Power Synth’ I would label a super synth and virtual instrument I go to first when looking for inspiration. The patches are that great.
Omnisphere is so easy to embed into just about any musical style because of the depth of sound patches it includes that it is tempting to never dig deeper into its extremely powerful engine – which seems like it would take a lifetime to fully master.
Best of all, Spectrasonics decided to include their excellent Symphony of Voices samples in Omnisphere. I recently pointed out that fact over on the Christian Filmmakers Forum about the voice samples in Omnisphere. There are no audio demos available for Omnisphere, so I decided to put together a short audio clip using a couple of vocal patches.
The audio clip below uses a full choir patch, along with a soprano solo patch:
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Note that no processing other than normalizing the audio file was used. What you hear is what is coming straight out of Omnisphere.
Hopefully this gives you a bit of an idea of the beauty of the Omnisphere vocal patches.