Building An Omnisphere PC

[dawman]

After so many years it appears that Omnisphere is the bad boy VSTi synth to get, so many great sounds, yet it will never load as fast as Modular IV presets once loaded.
I can't figure out why Native can't scale like the CPUs RAM and SSDs. Here we are in 2014 now and DSP still smokes this stuff and even accepts audio as a source of Modulations, go figure.

But I am building a PC from spare parts and will be using Turbo Mode since Omnisphere can only use 1 x Core per instance.
I will OC this 3770K spare CPU to 4.8GHz, use 16GBs of DDR3 and 2 x Vertex 4 SSDs. so speed is not a problem.
How can I get the sound from Omnipshere over to the XITE-1 w/o buying another sound card...?

Thanks for any help.

[Bud Weiser]

How can I get the sound from Omnipshere over to the XITE-1 w/o buying another sound card...?

Thanks for any help.

Depends on your mobo and demands.

On PC I see "ASIO4ALL" http://www.asio4all.com/ using the onboard sound chip,- on Mac it would be CoreAudio,- both using the 1/8" TRS stereo line out (or SPDIF-Out if available).

On PC the sound quality might depend on the quality of the soundchip itself.
Meanwhile some onboard sound drivers support ASIO too but I doubt it is on par w/ any RME or similar soundcard.

Can be it might sound like Omnips* here w/ the wrong PC hardware ...

*(see your line above)

best

Bud

[Eanna]

You will need a soundcard of some variety - be that an external device, a PCI(e) card, or the on-board audio chip on your motherboard.
asio4all is about the only option if you were going to use the audio bundled on your motherboard, but latencies are not great - depends on the internal soundcard I think.

If Reaper was your host, you could try ReaStream (http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/). Maybe others here know of other audio-over-ethernet options?

Will you not want to get Midi into that new PC? Guess there's Copperlan...

[dawman]

What about VEPro.
I hear lots of guys say to use that.
And also heard that OC'ing Omni was a great way to get more out of it.
So my old Ivy Bridge has been laying around for a long time doing nothing,
bust it's balls with some extra voltage and up the multipliers.


upload a gif

[dante]

But I am building a PC from spare parts and will be using Turbo Mode since Omnisphere can only use 1 x Core per instance. I will OC this 3770K spare CPU to 4.8GHz, use 16GBs of DDR3 and 2 x Vertex 4 SSDs. so speed is not a problem. How can I get the sound from Omnipshere over to the XITE-1 w/o buying another sound card...?

doesnt the spare part mobo have onboard audio out ?

Or just pick up a second hand Luna (http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33218) - and use its ADAT or Analog out.....and MIDI in....

[Nestor]

I would use a soundcard, it is much stable this way, particularly if you are going to use it on stage and it is not much more money anyway.