Cinesphere Vol.2 - Omnisphere 2

Cinesphere II for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 is the second part of our CineSphere series focused on cinematic soundtrack music and game audio.

It contains 50 short synth/pluck presets heavily inspired by Gojira’s track Another World. Main purpose of those presets is to add some edged fast attack sounds that easily cut the mix while being used in a melodic, or arping way. They encompass 80’s like synths sound character most of the time inside a big amount of space while creating nice tails with the help of delay.

They are atmospheric and dark, most of the time with a dirty saturated/distorted identity and they could be used both for melodic or rhythmic/harmonic performances within your productions. Besides cinematic styles, this soundbank could be a nice addition for electronic music especially techno, with dark atmospheres. As the synths are short they work better in conjunction with the delay effect.

Most presets have an obvious percussive almost attack sound due to the AMP envelope. If you wish to soften the sounds then a good solution is to increase the attack of the AMP envelope (and/or the filter envelope – the filter most of the times is modulated by a similar to AMP env “plucky” envelope.

A nice tip is to automate the Decay of the AMP envelope to add more body or movement to the overall sound. MW is used to add vibrato. As the presets are mainly short, vibrato is very subtle but it could be useful for adding variations to the sound.