Interested in this question over the last months. Omni has a reputation all of its own, namely through the quality of the synth and its reputation for providing great quality sounds out of the box.
It has that huge halo factor around it too, which always makes it both attractive, and also hard to judge from the outside with that steep price tag and no demo.
I guess this leads me to 2 connected questions.
- If you have Komplete, is there a reason to own Omnisphere, and what does it bring to the table that Komplete does not in your experience? If NKS and Komplete provides production ready sounds, does Omni make sense if it also does the same, or is it more of a nice to have?
- And if staying within the NKS ecosystem is preferred, would any additional synths/Kontakt libraries bring Komplete into a similar ballpark as Omnisphere stock content? Clearly, there would always be unique differences of course, but does Komplete miss out on specific aspects of the Omnisphere library that others make? I'm wondering if adding some 3rd party libraries might be as good an option as Omnipshere for those who prefer NKS.
Just interested to hear from others if you either have both and have an opinion on both, or if you're on the fence about Omnisphere and prefer the NKS ecosystem.