A few years ago, regular, very good virtual synths, without sound libraries, had a market price of around €199. Just add the very large sound library: 64 GB - 14,000, and you get €499. Omnisphere could also sell its synth for the market price of €199, and then they would have to buy each sound library separately. Eric Persin, the head of Spectrasonics, was formerly Chief Sound Designer at Roland; he chose this business model.

 

I'd say because of it's vast amount of libraries and recordings it's more comparable to Komplete, which is even more expensive

 

and don't forget two Bode frequency shifters, if you ever heard of them

 

New Omnisphere, new pianoteq, new Teletone instrument.. what the helly

 

Eric has turned into a cartoon character. Congratulations on the new release if you are reading this

 

they are packing a hybrid synth-sampler with a big library of samples in one package most of which you likely already have
but some like one arranger type Workstation keyboard with all the bells and whistles rather than building their own setup from smaller synths and effect modules

 

well, It was lovely to see Steve Jobs performing Omnisphere

Jokes aside, I am quite hyped for the new features.
I hope there is a lock button for parameters we wanna keep the value for mutation button changes.