Having said all that, I can't get rid of my Output stuff, and I am very seriously considering whether the other Output libraries I don't have and the many expansions are worth the price it would cost me to get them. But on a scale from one to ten, Omnisphere is a billion. I don't know how I talked myself finally into spending all that money. On the other hand, Omnisphere looks so tired and corny and 70s-particularly its name. A decision to expand output by one or more units will be based on an assumption that unit price. Its hard to predict how quickly prices will decline, but, as in the computer world, the technology has been improving vastly and prices have been dropping steadily in recent years. This involves calculating the cost of producing each. They look like a 10 but for me in practice they were a 2. Though prices are dropping rapidly, recently falling below the 1,000 threshold, they are still relatively high. If you buy their stuff, you will be young and beautiful They have the best interface in the business. My feeling about Output is that they are sold like the bright shiny, hippest, coolest thing. I've already been using GrainSpace, and now I will be using Portal. I've played with them a lot, but never used them.

They are cool, but I have never used any of them once in my music. In fact, if I could get permission from Output, I would sell all my stuff-Signal, Exhale, Substance, Rev, lots of expansions, in a heartbeat. By a county mile it is my favorite purchase from Output. But now, thanks to Matthew, that I have Portal, it's just on a whole other level.

So I talked myself out of getting Portal because I had this.

Cost price exhale by output