Saving and Managing Sounds

Omnisphere offers a flexible way to manage custom sounds. You can create your own sounds, organize and tag them, so you can find them easily in the browsers.

Saving Patches and Multis

Selecting the Save Patch (or Save Multi) option from the Utility Menu will open a File Save dialogue. After naming and saving the Patch or Multi, the EDIT TAGS interface will open, letting you assign various Attribute Types and Assignments, custom Assignments, and add your own Keywords and Notes to the file.
 Once you have finished editing the tags, click SAVE. You can cancel the save process by clicking CANCEL.

NOTE: Patches and Multis must be saved into a Category or Sub-Category folder inside a Library.

*If you plan to create a new Patch Library, a good starting point is to unzip the Current Categories.zip file. This contains the most up-to-date categories and sub-categories used in Spectrasonics Factory Patch Libraries. If you wish to save your own Patches in categories that match the ones currently used by Spectrasonics, you can rename the “Current Categories” folder to anything you like and save your Patches to these new folders. The original User folder will still be available to you in the Directory.

Prohibited Text Characters

Certain text characters are OS-prohibited, and if included in the name of a sound, will cause problems when searching.

MacOS prohibits:

• : (colon)

Windows prohibits:

• < (less than)
• > (greater than)
• : (colon)
• “ (double quote)
• / (forward slash)
• \ (backslash)
• | (vertical bar or pipe)
• ? (question mark)
• * (asterisk)

Managing Patches and Multis

The Browsers are designed to handle all aspects of searching, browsing, and loading sounds.

User-created Patches or Multis are managed using your computer’s built-in file manager (either the Mac Finder, or the Windows Explorer). This makes it easy to manage your custom Patch and Multi Libraries by organizing them in a way that makes sense to you.

The default save location for Patches is inside a folder named “User” located here: /STEAM/Omnisphere/Settings Library/Patches/User
The default save location for Multis is inside a folder named “User” located here: /STEAM/Omnisphere/Settings Library/Multis/User

You can create additional folders at those locations and name them whatever you like. When you create a new folder at the top level (alongside the User folder), it will show up in the DIRECTORIES drop-down menu in the respective Browser.

NOTE: When you rename or create new folders at the top level, you must re-instantiate Omnisphere, then select the Refresh button for them to appear in Omnisphere’s Browser.

Renaming, Relocating, and Deleting Patches and Multis

To rename, relocate, or delete a user-saved Patch or Multi, you must use the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer. Navigate to the User folder, locate the desired files, and rename, relocate, or delete them using your file manager. Refresh the appropriate Omnisphere Browser(s) to reflect the changes by clicking on the “Refresh” button (the circular arrow in the footer of the Full Browsers).

*Option / Alt-Refresh can be quicker, as it refreshes only the Library in which you are working.

For information on how to manage User Soundsources, visit the User Audio chapter.