Major Upgrade of New Sounds, Synthesis Features, FX, Hardware Integration & more
Burbank, CA - October 15, 2025 — Spectrasonics today announced the long anticipated upgrade of their award-winning, flagship software synthesizer Omnisphere®. Version 3 comes packed with thousands of new sounds, powerful new synthesis features, brand new next-generation effects, Adaptive Global Controls for instant patch customization, curated libraries, MPE support and more.
v3.0 Features:
Thousands of Fresh New Sounds, Faster Access, Same Size
- Truly massive new factory collection of 18 stunning libraries of thousands and thousands of super creative and inspiring new sounds from the award-winning Spectrasonics Sound Design team
- New Curated Libraries - Rapidly find exactly the sounds you need within the highly curated new libraries, carefully organized by type of use
- Greatly improved Browsing experience with new organization system
- Unique new deep-sampled soundsources including Blown Ostrich Egg, Tonal Sand, Nyckelharpa, Celestaphone, Lyre Harp, Magic Wand Metallophones, Sul Tasto Cello, Percussive Snow, Piano Harmonics, Tongue Slap Flute and much more.
- Original patches have been remastered and refreshed with the latest v3 features and FX
- More sounds, same space! With new lossless optimization technology, the complete Omnisphere 3 factory sound library takes NO MORE drive space than Omnisphere 2.
New Adaptive Global Controls
Quickly customize the overall sound of Omnisphere with new Global Controls that allow easy tweaks to the most important sound characteristics: Tone, Ambience, Filter, Envelope, Vibrato & Unison. These smart controls analyze the patch automatically - so they always work with musical results, no matter what patch you select.
New Patch Mutations
At the click of a button, Omnisphere 3 can now instantly create fascinating and useful variations of any patch - from Subtle to Extreme. Every mutation you generate is automatically saved and you can easily come back to them later.
New Synthesis features
- Powerful new Quadzone modulation for dramatic timbral movement
- Upgraded Filter Section with 36 New Filter Types in seven sonic colors: Classic, Jupiter, Beefy, OB, French, Subtle and Sauce
- New circuit-modeled Filter Saturation
- New Polyphonic Dual Frequency Shifter
- New Oscillator Drift function provides coveted analog instability
- Oscillators now feature over 600 morphing wavetables
- New Unison Phase Scatter, Mix and Analog features open lush possibilities with Sample Mode
- New Glide modes: OBXA/Minimoog/Odyssey curves, Auto-Bend Up/Down, Glissando
- Granular, Unison and Harmonia can now be blended simultaneously
Vastly Expanded Hardware Integration
For the first time, Omnisphere's one of a kind Hardware Integration feature is now extended to work with nearly any kind of MIDI Controller. Over 300 new hardware profiles are included in v3 with support for popular keyboards and synths from every major manufacturer including Roland, Korg, Yamaha, Nord, Novation, Arturia, M-Audio, Studiologic, ASM, Alesis, Akai, Behringer, Casio, Native Instruments, Nektar, CME, Kurzweil, Kawai, IK Multimedia and more.
- In addition to the hundreds of MIDI controller keyboards that are newly supported, Omnisphere v3 also adds brand new profiles for the following user requested hardware synth models:
- ASM Hydrasynth
- Moog Muse
- Moog One
- Moog Messenger
- Moog Subsequent 25
- Oberheim OB-X8
- Oberheim TEO-5
- Sequential Trigon 6
- Sequential Prophet 5/10
- Sequential Take 5
- Sequential Pro 3
- Roland Jupiter X
- Roland Jupiter Xm
- Roland JD-08
- Roland JX-08
- Roland JU-06A
- UDO Super Gemini
- UDO Super 8
- UDO Super 6
- Nord Wave 2
- Behringer Wave
- Behringer PRO 800
- Behringer UB-XA
- IK Multimedia UNO
- Novation Summit
- Novation K-Station
- Novation X-Station
- Modal Argon 8
- Modal Cobalt 8
- Modal Cobalt 5
- Arturia Matrixbrute
- Arturia Minifreak
New Expression Features
- New MPE Mode gives full support for MIDI Polyphonic Expression controllers
- New Adaptive MIDI Scaling mode allows Hardware Control/MIDI Learns to operate seamlessly in live performance
- New smoothing algorithms allow for more analog-like results from MIDI Controllers and give separate smoothing options for Rise and Fall trajectories
Major FX Upgrade with 35 stunning new "Next-Gen" Effects
- Featuring the following new, incredible sounding FX Units:
REVERBS
- Super Verb
- Velvet Verb
- Solar Shimmer
- Inversions
DELAYS
- Refraction Delay
- Swiss Army Delay
- Backwards Echo
- Magnetic Echo
CREATIVE
- Flip Backward
- Pump-O-matic
- Half Speeder
- Warp Shifter
- Pulsar Split
- Ring of Fire
MODULATION
- Unstable Drifter
- Chameleon Chorus
- Barberpole Phaser
EQUALIZERS
- Super Channel
- Vintage British Desk
- 1970s Class-A Console
- Classic Tube 2-Band
- Classic Tube Midband
- Classic Tube Filters
DYNAMICS
- Optical Leveling Amp
- Multiband Compressor
- Classic 1176 Limiter
- Solid State Mix Buss
- 1950s Tube Compressor
COLOR
- Analog Studio Tape+Console
- Vintage Enhancer
- Tube Saturator
- Noisemaker
DISTORTION
- Multiband Distortion
- Tube Overdrive
- Mean Machine
New included Omnisphere FX Rack plugin
- As a bonus, you can now use all the Omnisphere FX in your DAW with the included bonus Omnisphere FX VST/AU/AAX plug-in
More v3 Highlights
- Redesigned Full Browser
- Extensive Implementation of Sub-Categories
- New Directory Tree interface in Full Browser
- New "Hide" feature - don't show sounds you don't need
- New Library images for gorgeous presentation
- Simplified Tagging System with Keywords and Moods
- Full backwards compatibility with all previous versions of Omnisphere
Pricing and Availability
Omnisphere 3 will be available on October 21, 2025
Omnisphere is $499/€399 and Omnisphere owners can upgrade for $199
Visit www.spectrasonics.net for more details.
