Although this isn’t total news and is quite late, Spectrasonics; one of the leading sample and virtual instrument developers has released a podcast presenting their new software synth entitled “Omnisphere” to be released later in 2008. The video series doesn’t just demonstrate the amazing abilities of this new software synth, but also goes into the how and why they decided to approach a project such as this, right down to demonstrating some of the vintage synths of our time.

Omnisphere is known since NAMM as being a next generation synthesizer module. It combines real recordings of instruments, as well as created custom instruments, and even more odd situations right down to setting a piano on fire, and playing it while recording it. In the video podcast for Omnisphere, you can see the various techniques they used, as well as the features implemented in Omnisphere.

Omnisphere is planned to be released September 15, 2008 for Windows XP/Vista and Macintosh with Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS support for compatibility with all major host software.

To watch the video series you can go here, or check out the teaser site here.

The series is also available on iTunes.

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Nathan Allen Pinard: I’m pretty exited about this library, as it helps with a lot of things for me in terms of electronic music. It should be fun coming up with the various techniques using the arpeggiator, as well as the patches themselves. Just about any musician that is a pro would want this in their library.