Omnisphere is a fantastic synth (it remains my favorite), but you wouldn't want to use it if your goal is to sound like many real instruments. Omnisphere will always be there, right around the same price, so maybe you'd get that next and it'd complement Kontakt well.īut if you don't go the Kontakt full route, at least figure out what kinds of instruments you want to use. With the full version of Kontakt, you'll have a lot to get started with, a whole world of free and inexpensive libraries, and you'll have spent a lot less money than Komplete or Omnisphere. If you don't find a kontakt player library you want to spend money on, some people report that certain free kontakt player libraries allow the crossgrade (search this forum), but I'd encourage you to find something that you're really excited about. So let me complicate your life further and suggest an alternative: find a kontakt player library that you find truly inspiring, buy that, and buy the kontakt 6 crossgrade, which is also 50% off (so $125). It's a huge shame to spend $500+ because people tell you something is good and you find it's just okay for what you want to do. Since you're trying to choose between such disparate products, it makes me wonder if you've not really looked deeply into either. Komplete can get a bad rap around here for "wasting" your money, but it's such a phenomenal deal during sales right now that you just need to ensure there's enough there that you do like.Įither way, you may not be spending time doing a deep dive into sound design, but you will probably be spending a lot of time looking for presets, be it in the various synths and sample libraries of KU or in Omnisphere. But that's okay, it might still be the right choice for you. There's a ton to discover in the built-in presets, but purchased presets can take it so much further.įor Komplete Ultimate, you won't use most of it. You said that you don't have time/energy to do a deep dive into sound design, and for Omnisphere, that's fine - but do plan on searching for preset libraries for purchase that better match the vibe you're going for. I think it depends on the style of writing for animation that you want to do. We recommend upgrading to the latest version of Omnisphere here, which contains many added features and sounds in addition to compatibility with the latest operating systems and full backwards compatibility with older versions of Omnisphere.People have made good cases for both, but they're really hard to directly compare. If you would like to use an older version of Omnisphere, make sure it is installed on a supported operating system. Older versions of our instruments are only supported on the operating systems for which they were designed, tested, and advertised on.
Regarding Omnisphere 1, which was released in 2008 and was publicly available through April 2015 (prior to the release of Omnisphere 2) - Omnisphere 1 is officially supported on MacOS 10.6 Snow Leopard through MacOS 10.10 Yosemite it will not install on 10.12 Sierra and later. Beta versions of macOS are not supported. The latest versions of Omnisphere 2, Keyscape, Trilian and Stylus RMX are natively supported on both Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, etc.) and Intel Mac computers, on the following operating systems: Mac OS 14 Sonoma, Mac OS 13 Ventura, MacOS 12 Monterey, MacOS 11 Big Sur, and MacOS 10.15 Catalina.