NEXUS VS OMNISPHERE HOW TO
NEXUS VS OMNISPHERE MOVIE

Out of all the stuff I got exposed to in this thread - so far, I like Firebird the best. Im gonna try it (there is a demo I presume) Ok - eventhough I never found splits useful (since I do not do live) - you got me all pumped up. Well, one cool thing you can do with energyXT is to split your midi keyboard into parts and then assign different VST instruments (with additional VST effect chains on each instrument…). If you want to produce trance, then owning Vanguard and Nexus together with the sample libraries from Vengeance make a good ‘drive’.

NEXUS VS OMNISPHERE MOVIE

If you want to produce those classic movie scores, then you’d be better off with EastWest products such as the Symphonic Choirs and Orchestra plugs. But one will always develop preferences over time depending on what type of music you produce. I didn’t really connect with Glass Viper or Vanguard (in fact, I think Vanguard sounds ‘boxy’ in some odd way, probably due to its internal reverb). That way you can build complex instruments to be loaded within a second in other projects. One thing that you could try out, that showed out to be a real nice thing for me, is to use energyXT (version 1.4) inside Renoise and then layer Nexus together with other VST-instruments and VST-effects in a modular way. I use it alot, especially the rich pads in the Big Tone expansion. But in a sense I agree with you, when I produce music it is more important to have original ideas and good compositional skills rather than having crystal clear ‘pro’ sound but a crappy song.

NEXUS VS OMNISPHERE HOW TO

Old 80’s analogue synths became like a goldmine to me once I understood how to shape sounds with them that I only heard inside my head as part of the composition process. I must honestly say that after all these years, I like to have the control over my gear. I don’t really see why you can’t be both a sound designer/engineer and a composer. The synths that I do like, are simple and I think not less powerful - see Vanguard and Glass Viper. I like driving - give me a double shot of Nexus, straight up! What do you enjoy more - fixing the car or driving it? I dont mind playing with some of the basic stuff, like simple ADSR modifications, filter cutoff here and there, trancegates and arps, but if you enjoy breaking down the sound to its layers, and then assembling it all over again - you should be a sound designer / engineer, and not a composer. So who am I to try and shape a new sound that was never heard before? I mean there are so many VST’s out there, of all types and shapes and I know that in most cases, professionals designed the sounds. I mean I can totally understand the people who want their synth to have as many customization options and knobs and shapers and envelopes as possible, but thats not me. You know, after playing with Helix for a few minutes, I must say I did not connect. Thanks both for the references - I will check this list one by one. I like the sounds, I hate the user interface so much that I deem it unusable for my taste. In Nexus, I like to go to a category, find the sound that is closest to what I need, and tweak it if needed or put Renoise DSP effects to tweak it more. This is a job for sound engineers and “synthesists”.ĭont get me wrong - I like to play with well designed synthesizers - one that make a good separation between low level modifications and high level tweaking - I like interfaces like the one used in Glass Viper (by QuikQuak)

I find myself trying to figure out how the synth is wired, and which LFO is doing what and what not, instead of focusing on putting the sounds together into a song. To me, playing with all the knobs of a synth is counter productive. Maybe you’ de better try to program some sounds by yourself …layer a few ( decent ) vst’s ( like fabilter …u-he zebra stuff )…You’ll be rewarded in the end.

Nexus vs omnisphere