Need help with Omnisphere! Please!

[MyungChunHa]

So I recently purchased Omnisphere and finally got through the tedious installation (twice), but now when I try to open an instance of it, it does not even open and freezes my sequencer.

I'm using a Gateway (I know, i know, wasn't my decision) with an Athlon 64 2.2 GHz processor with 3gb of RAM freshly installed and Ableton Live 7.0.1 as my sequencer.

I've tried the Spectrasonics support phone# and forums, but they are really not willing to do anything close to customer service and have gotten me nowhere. They keep blaming it on the system not being 3 GHz (the "requirement"), but I feel as though it should at LEAST open up and if it opened then ran with glitches, I'd feel much better because then I would know that is the system's fault and I could at least play around with it.

I'm all out of ideas and I'm so ridiculously eager to play this thing.

BTW, I've read several reviews that state the instrument played on computer's that were less capable than mine, so that's why I don't think it is the system. Pleassssse someone help me out, I'm getting depressed

[Electriclight]

That's a lot of money to shell out for no support!

What was tedious about the installation? (Looking for clues here.)

Have you used other synths on this system, or is this a first?

I'm in agreement with you that processor speed may be a factor when playing this thing, but it really should open up. I think I'd be raising hell with the company until I got the thing working

[Ross111]

When I first installed Atmosphere on my pc, it froze my Sonar whenever it scanned for VSTs and I therefore couldn't load it. I searched google and found out that it was something to do with the authorization not working inside Sonar.

I downloaded this VSTHost v1.45 for Windows 2000/95/98/ME/NT/XP, opened Atmosphere within it and authorized it and now it loads fine in Sonar.

I know it's a different plug-in but it's from the same company so maybe this will work for you.

[MyungChunHa]

Originally Posted by Electriclight

That's a lot of money to shell out for no support!

What was tedious about the installation? (Looking for clues here.)

Have you used other synths on this system, or is this a first?

I'm in agreement with you that processor speed may be a factor when playing this thing, but it really should open up. I think I'd be raising hell with the company until I got the thing working

Well the installation takes upwards to 4-5 hours since the library (~50 GB) is so huge. 6 disks - 45 mins each, which is actually kinda sweet, but at the same time tedious.

Yea this is the first soft synth I've ever used and a first for the machine as well.

Originally Posted by Ross111

When I first installed Atmosphere on my pc, it froze my Sonar whenever it scanned for VSTs and I therefore couldn't load it. I searched google and found out that it was something to do with the authorization not working inside Sonar.

I downloaded this VSTHost v1.45 for Windows 2000/95/98/ME/NT/XP, opened Atmosphere within it and authorized it and now it loads fine in Sonar.

I know it's a different plug-in but it's from the same company so maybe this will work for you.

Thanks for the tips, at this point I'm willing to try anything since Guitar Center won't accept returns on open software. Will report back.

[Electriclight]

Yea this is the first soft synth I've ever used and a first for the machine as well.

Good, that allows me to ask dumb questions! Let's see if Ross111's suggestion works first.

[MyungChunHa]

Originally Posted by Electriclight

Good, that allows me to ask dumb questions! Let's see if Ross111's suggestion works first.

Yea, I installed VSThost and an instance of Omnisphere opened, but then I couldn't load the control screen...If anyone has a host like this one, it loads the plug in and then you click a button to see the control screen that the plug in comes with...so I'm able to play some notes, but I can't maneuver through the different sounds and parameters, since I can't see the controls, friggin cocktease

I did read thttp://forum.recordingreview.com/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=81618
Home Recording Forum - Edit Posthis article in Keyboard Magazine though Reviews on KeyboardMag.com

Originally Posted by Keyboard Magazine

"I had a moment of panic when I couldn't load Omnisphere into any of my usual DAWs, but this was a trivial confusion in the installer, which created a folder structure for the sample library, then generated a shortcut (in my Windows "Program Files" menu) that didn't point to the right folder. I edited the shortcut and the problem vanished. Fortner had no problems with his Mac install."

I'm not sure how to do what he's talking about but it's another lead if anyone else does

[MyungChunHa]

So here's the latest update, I bought Dimension Pro and it works great, I love it, so my computer can run VSTi very well. Also, I used minihost and vsthost, minihost crashes and never loads it, then vsthost will open it and I can play one sound (I think its from Omnisphere), but it won't load the control screen that comes with Omnisphere. It only shows the instance of it being open (that little box that vsthost pops open). When I try to load the Omnisphere control screen it freezes.


So if it's not Ableton and two other VST hosts don't open it, it has to either be the install itself or my CPU. However as koalaboy (from KVRaudio.com) points out, he has basically the same set-up as me and it still runs well. The installation seemed to be flawless, but who really knows and how would I check? What's going on here?

[P.P.T.]

This is probably irrelevant but I recently installed a 20 gb library and it didn't take more than 1/2 hour if I remember correctly.

4-5 hours seems odd.

I wonder if something was going wrong with the installation.

[MyungChunHa]

Originally Posted by P.P.T.

This is probably irrelevant but I recently installed a 20 gb library and it didn't take more than 1/2 hour if I remember correctly.

4-5 hours seems odd.

I wonder if something was going wrong with the installation.

Well no, 45 mins per disk (6 of them) is what most people are reporting and Spectrasonics states the same thing. Thanks for the reply though.

[alansmithnl]

Originally Posted by MyungChunHa

Well no, 45 mins per disk (6 of them) is what most people are reporting and Spectrasonics states the same thing. Thanks for the reply though.

I copied all the DVD's to my hard drive, purely because I wanted to back up the DVD's to my system. Now, the install of each disk takes around 10 minutes, so I suspect that 45 minutes seems a very long time to wait per disk.
Incidentally, I am running a 2Ghz machine here with 4Gb RAM and a few large hard drives and it works very well for me. I am using Acid Pro 7 now, as Sonar didn't like it. So now I have Sonar 8 producer, that is totally useless for Omnisphere.