This is a category that has mushroomed in Omni 2. This is the most logical term for a large number of factory and third party patches, and its reintroduction would be hugely beneficial (indeed The Unfinished, who try to follow the factory tagging, did just this on the recent release, Colossus). One more issue on Categories – for some reason Hybrid Instruments was removed. It would no longer matter where you started, because your patch is in ALL the appropriate places, rather than the current lucky dip. The obvious practical problem with this is that currently all third party patches are arranged into category folders, and it’s not obvious how one would put these patches into two places at once, but if that can be overcome and tagging updated throughout, then the system would likely work much, much better. The second solution was hinted at by Eric as a possibility, which would be to allow multiple categories – so our example patch goes into Textures AND Distortion AND Noisescapes. You’d still have all your distorted sounds easily searchable – you’d just click on Distortion in Type rather than Category (and likely then click the most appropriate category, be it a synth lead, texture or whatever). The first would be to move all the descriptive terms to Type, so Distortion can be a selectable attribute for any noun. There are two possible solutions to this. It also affected Omnisphere 1, but has become more challenging in Omnisphere 2 with a much greater number of conflicts. ![]() This is one of the biggest problems with the current system – a user literally does not know where to start. If you want to look for a distorted texture, do you start in Textures or Distortion? Or actually Noisescapes, perhaps? The patch you are looking for can only be in one. ![]() I first look at the current problems many of us find in Omni 2 and ways that they might work better, and then turn to how this might affect user and third party patches.Ĭategories are the most prominent tag, and the only one with a physical component – third party and user library patches are placed into category folders within the OS, which means that there can only be a single category for each patch.Īt the moment there are nouns and adjectives both found in Categories. This very short open document will attempt to address that, and hopefully start a better dialogue between customers and Spectrasonics on finding a way forward. However on some of the issues, it is obvious I did a poor job of explaining exactly why so many of us are having problems, and an even poorer one on what possible solutions might look like. In correspondence with myself in January 2016, Eric Persing has more fully explained some of the rationale behind the tagging, and indicated some improvements would be forthcoming. In a KVR poll conducted in August 2015, 47% of users describe their reaction as “so-so”, “not too happy or “very unhappy”. However, while there has been some that have welcomed the changes, a significant proportion of users have found them counterproductive. The tagging in Omnisphere 2 has been substantially overhauled, and allows for new attributes such as mood which can only be a good thing. In Omnisphere 1, the tagging system was widely praised and quickly became best in class for virtual synths. With over 10,000 patches including Trilian and Moog expansions just of the core libraries, finding a quick way through them all essential. Omni 2 tags – a few ideas of how to make them work better for everyone ![]() Nb - the following has come out of some forum discussion and private correspondance between myself and Eric Persing at Spectrasonics
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