omnisphere

It Doesn’t Have to be Good

Day one. The blank page. 29 tracks ahead of me. 696 hours in which to drag music out of the aether. Sigh. I don’t have a strong recollection of the instrumental portion of this track. It’s made up of mostly usual suspect synths like Pigments, Omnisphere, and Hive, and clearly sounds like one of my “just keep throwing things in there until it’s soup” recipes. Another Completely Successful Exercise in Planning and Self Restraint. … Continue reading

Existential Transcendentalism

Another track with no plan going in. After a few days of hardware production, I decided to turn to another old, comfortable, warm, fuzzy… virtual synth. Omnisphere has been a primary tool for me for years. In fact, it’s one of a very short list of “if I could only have one thing” tools in the studio. Along, with Stylus RMX for drums, it’s the first software I install after Digital Performer, my digital audio … Continue reading