Spectrasonics
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Spectrasonics is a music software company based in California
, United States
. Founded in 1994, the company originally produced sample libraries and then became one of the first companies to create software instruments in 2002 Their flagship product is Omnisphere, an extensive software synthesizer released in 2008. The companies instruments are used by many professional music producers and well-known musical artists.
They are notable for the significant awards that their software has won and the real world use by professionals in the sound industry. These awards include, but limited too:
Their products have been used by many professional musician
s and film score
rs. Their sounds can be recognized in films such as Terminator Salvation
, Transformers, and The Kingdom
. Video game music
composer
Tom Salta
and Academy award nominated film composer
James Newton Howard
have been quoted saying Spectrasonics' music software products are an important part of their music studios.
California
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, United States
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. Founded in 1994, the company originally produced sample libraries and then became one of the first companies to create software instruments in 2002 Their flagship product is Omnisphere, an extensive software synthesizer released in 2008. The companies instruments are used by many professional music producers and well-known musical artists.
They are notable for the significant awards that their software has won and the real world use by professionals in the sound industry. These awards include, but limited too:
- Best Software Instrument 2009 (Omnisphere). At the 10th annual Musikmesse International Press Awards, Spectrasonics' Omnisphere was voted the 'Best Software Instrument' of 2009. The prestigious MIPA awards are chosen by the editors of over 100 music industry magazines from more than a dozen countries. The MIPA has come to be considered the "Grammy" of the musical instrument/pro audio industry.
- Best Software Instrument 2003 (Atmosphere). At the second annual Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Awards, held March 26 at the yearly Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, the organization's members voted Spectrasonics' Atmosphere(TM) Dream Synth Module the Best Audio Software of 2003.
Their products have been used by many professional musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s and film score
Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...
rs. Their sounds can be recognized in films such as Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The fourth installment in the Terminator series, the film is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting...
, Transformers, and The Kingdom
The Kingdom (film)
The Kingdom is a 2007 film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, with Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Piven and Ali Suliman....
. Video game music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Tom Salta
Tom Salta
Tom Salta, from Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, is a recording artist and soundtrack composer. He has composed soundtracks for many popular video game titles, including Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2, Cold Fear, Red Steel and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X...
and Academy award nominated film composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films...
have been quoted saying Spectrasonics' music software products are an important part of their music studios.
List of works sampling Spectrasonics
| Music Library | Year | Media type | Name of the media | Composition name | Composer | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart of Asia | 1998 | Album | Are You Shpongled? Are You Shpongled? Are You Shpongled? is the first of four albums released by Shpongle. This album set the standard for psychedelic downtempo music worldwide, and created a revolution between psychedelic trance and ambient soundscapes.-Track listing:... |
"Divine Moments of Truth" | Shpongle Shpongle Shpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram . Their musical style combines eastern ethnic instruments and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music... |
Psychedelic Trance |
| Heart of Asia | 2000 | Video game | Diablo II Diablo II Diablo II is a dark fantasy/horror-themed hack and slash, with elements of the role playing game and dungeon crawl genres. It was released for Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North. It is a direct sequel to the 1996 hit PC game, Diablo.Diablo II... |
"Harem" | Matt Uelmen Matt Uelmen Matt Uelmen is an American video game music composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, which was recognized with the inaugural Excellence in Audio award by the IGDA in 2001... |
Experimental |
| Symphony of Voices | 2000 | Video game | Diablo II Diablo II Diablo II is a dark fantasy/horror-themed hack and slash, with elements of the role playing game and dungeon crawl genres. It was released for Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment, and was developed by Blizzard North. It is a direct sequel to the 1996 hit PC game, Diablo.Diablo II... |
various | Matt Uelmen Matt Uelmen Matt Uelmen is an American video game music composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, which was recognized with the inaugural Excellence in Audio award by the IGDA in 2001... |
Experimental |
| Symphony of Voices | 2001 | Single | N/A | "Sonne" | Rammstein Rammstein Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz... |
Industrial Metal |
| Heart of Asia | 2002 | Album | Angel Tears Vol. 3 | "Ishka" | Angel Tears Angel Tears -Background:The duo is Momi Ochion and Seb Taylor . Ochion, whose roots lie in Israeli pop and world fusion music, is the melody man of the duo—the brain behind the compositional aspects of the album and a lot of the studio work... |
Goa Goa Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its... chillout |
| Heart of Asia | 2002 | Album | Cura Me | "Cura Me" | Signum | Trance |
| Heart of Asia | 2003 | Album | Blumenkraft | "Splitting An Atom" | Ott | Dub |
| Heart of Asia | 2002 | Album | Just Be | "A Tear in the Open UR/A Tear in the Open UR and A Tear in the Open are two electronic music tracks which appeared on Tiësto's second studio album in 2004, entitled Just Be. Unlike Tiesto's other album from 2004, Parade of the Athletes, Just Be featured only unmixed tracks.... " |
DJ Tiesto | Trance |
| Heart of Asia | 2005 | Album | UR/A Tear in the Open | "A Tear in the Open (Leama & Moor Leama & Moor Leama & Moor are a DJ and production duo of Andrew Beardmore and Marty Leama hailing from the UK. They have begun their music in 1999 under Leama's solo project with the songs "Requiem For A Dream" and "Melodica" before they officially formed the duo Leama & Moor... remix)" |
DJ Tiesto | Trance |
| Heart of Asia | 2005 | Album | Fairydust | "Ailein duinn Ailein duinn Ailein duinn is a traditional Scottish song for solo female voice, a lament that was written in Gàidhlig for Ailean Moireasdan by his fiancée, Annag Chaimbeul . In 1788, Ailean, a sailor, set off with his ship to Scalpay, Harris, where he and Annag would be married... " |
Trobar de Morte | Neofolk Neofolk Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial... |
| Heart of Asia | 2006 | Album | Hall Of Dreams | "Hall Of Dreams" | En Voice | Ambient enigmatic |
| Heart of Asia | 2008 | Album | Lost Space Device | "Anna" | Spectrum Vision | Psybient Psybient Psybient, also known as ambient psy, psychedelic chillout, psychedelic ambient, ambient goa, ambient psytrance and more commonly within the Goa/psytrance scene as psychill and psydub, is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of psychedelic trance, ambient, world music, new age and even... |
| Heart of Asia | 2010 | Album | What Dreams May Come | "Ailein duinn Ailein duinn Ailein duinn is a traditional Scottish song for solo female voice, a lament that was written in Gàidhlig for Ailean Moireasdan by his fiancée, Annag Chaimbeul . In 1788, Ailean, a sailor, set off with his ship to Scalpay, Harris, where he and Annag would be married... " |
Wine and Alchemy | World |
| Heart of Asia | 2006 | Video game | Tomb Raider: Legend | "Main theme" | Troels Folmann Troels Brun Folmann Troels Brun Folmann is a composer specialized in epic orchestral music featured in TV-shows, trailers and video games, such as the Tomb Raider series, and commercial/trailers for films such as Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Illusionist, 10.000 BC, America's Got Talent 2009 and over 50... |
Electronic |
| Heart of Asia | N/A | Album | "World Inside My Heart" | Deep Spirit of Native Americans | New age, World |