So, if you are not looking for something over the top or too powerful, Serum is a good choice at a great price. You should, however, note that Serum is much more affordable, being only half the price of Omnisphere. Omnisphere is extremely powerful and has more capability than Serum without a doubt. If you have Kontakt (the sampler) only, Omnisphere is a good addition. There are no synths in there just samples. Sure, it’s a big money sinkhole (your library will keep growing and growing) but it’s unlike anything else, the highest quality sample libraries available today hands down. I use Omnisphere quite a lot: it’s nice for a beginner, but Kontakt is literally limitless (and free). You should spend some time into learning some Sound Design lessons, it’s really usefull and it can make your beats sound better and richer. No, While it’s not bad to have them, you’l be fine with the plugins that are already preinstalled with the DAW. Can you make good beats without omnisphere?
Find a patch you like, tweak to your heart’s content, and enjoy the unique sounds. It’s particularly good if you want to avoid the clichéd sounds you seem to find in a lot of commercial EDM. The only reason it isn’t more popular is the price. At its very core, nexus is a Rompler VST which means that it only has Read Only samples that are not editable by the user. Is omnisphere better than Nexus 3?Īnother great quality that makes Omnisphere a far much better option than Nexus is the ability to import and modify your own sounds. It gives you a huge amount of neat presets that are good for any kind of modern music right now.
What Makes Omnisphere Worth the Money? Omnisphere is definitely well worth the money and a beast when it comes to VST Synths that have tremendous capabilities to create unique sounds.
Personally, I think Serum is funner to mess around with and has more creative potential. Serum allows much more creative freedom and gives you much finer control over the sound it outputs. Nexus is typically easier to use out of the box and less CPU intensive. I also have keyscape (which is also incredible) and the preset pack “keyscape creative” you get when you own both is really good. Only the effects in Omnisphere is mindblowing. It also has a huge library but Omnisphere can do almost everything better.
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Gave bit more listen to those tracks I can tell that Port Noir track is most basic 80s styled dry brass pad Leprous - the price has basic supersaw (~4 to 8 voices of detuned saw), The Valley - intro first can't tell without experimentation but 2nd sound is strongly detuned supersaw with LP filter, pads around 2:30 could be triangles with LP and saturation, 6:30 simple detuned supersaw.Īll those sounds can be easily recreated with most decent free synths. I probably could get all needed sounds with Serum without a problem, because it was made for an advanced sound design where your sounds are not that complicated.īefore Serum came to be, the best synth was NI Massive and I remember there was a pack that's probably in your direction - Analog factory Rotten Ghetto Attack, but dunno where to get it nowadays. Sounds you are searching are too niche to be found in preset packs and even less in default presets. Click to expand.Well, default presets are generally for EDM music, so that's why they sound like they sound.