Having served up pumping bass lines to the trade since 2003, Trilogy has now been discontinued, but the good news is that anyone who bought the instrument during 2009 will receive a free upgrade to Trilian. Well, almost everything: once installation is complete, users are advised to download updates to the player software, sound library and patch library before attempting to make music, but, ironically, Trilian's 'check for updates' button didn't work! Fortunately Spectrasonics' on‑line updates page isn't hard to find and the updates restored the impotent button to full health. The tutorial video clip included on the installation DVD explained that I needed to direct the installer to the folder level above my existing Steam folder - and, having heeded that advice, everything was plain sailing. Installation and on-line authorisation took about 90 minutes and went fine for me, with hardly any swearing. For those who own both, the v1.1 version of Omnisphere can play Trilian patches, but as Omnisphere has more parameters than Trilian, the reverse is not true.

As the Trilian core library is large, this may necessitate having to move your Steam folder to a new, larger-capacity drive, a straightforward operation that is explained in Trilian's printed user guide.

The Californian company have now completed a similarly radical transformation of the popular Trilogy bass module: renamed Trilian, this souped‑up instrument now enjoys all the advantages of Steam and sports a brand new 34GB core library to boot.Īll of Spectrasonics Steam‑powered instruments (to date, Omnisphere and Trilian) must be installed in the same folder, so if you've already installed Omnisphere on your internal or external hard drive, you're obliged to locate Trilian's software and samples in the same place.

That evolution occurred via the creation of Omnisphere's large, imaginative sample library, and also courtesy of the intricate programming functions introduced in Spectrasonics' custom 'Steam' sound engine. Those of you who upgraded from Spectrasonics' Atmosphere to the all‑singing, all‑dancing Omnisphere over the last year will have enjoyed its remarkable metamorphosis from a comparatively simple plug‑in instrument to a complex, highly programmable and versatile sample‑based soft synth. Spectrasonics' new Steam‑driven bass module bundles 34GB of electric, acoustic and synth basses into one package.

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