“Sonic Extensions is something we’ve been working on over here for a long time,” notes stated Spectrasonics Founder and Creative Director Eric Persing. The new effects can be used on anything within Omnisphere, including imported user audio and satellite instruments like Keyscape and Trilian. Instead of quick and cheesy trailers, Spectrasonics have hefty walk-through videos on each of the Sonic Extensions and a 2-hour live stream which stylishly and artistically introduces all of the instruments, effects and features – the production values are off the charts.Spectrasonics has introduced Sonic Extensions, a new collection of add-ons for Omnisphere that add new sounds, features and effects.Įach Sonic Extension title focuses on a specific aesthetic, with new sounds, purpose-built custom controls and new effects units. Each one costs $149 although if you buy more than one at a time you can snag yourself a discount. They offer a wide range of sound palettes and possibilities with 1000s of sounds, 1000s of Scenes and variations. Seismic Shock – Heavy Modern Electronic.Sonic Extensions is launching with four new instruments: Omnisphere itself also gets a bit of an update although the road to version 3 is probably still a few years long if Spectrasonics previous rate of change is anything to go by. Another feature is the use of “Scenes” within a patch to let you save variations and get back to them without changing the preset. They also come with a couple of new effects that can be used in Omnisphere as a whole. What that means is that they have a custom front panel as if they were their own instrument running within the Omnisphere engine. However, these are more than sound packs.Įach Sonic Extension comes with a library of undoubtedly fantastic and deeply multi-sampled sounds but they also come with new ways to interact with them. And now they believe they’ve come up with a new idea to offer some sound packs for their flagship synth. Omnisphere was released in 2008 with version 2 meandering its way to release in 2015 and 2.5 appearing 3 years later. They’ve been around a long time and their output is one of the slowest in the industry. Spectrasonics make some superb virtual instruments.

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