500 3rd Party Libraries for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.6 – STEAM ONLY (OMNISPHERE)

LIBRARY FEATURES

With a probability of 99%, all libraries that appeared in the public domain before 04/17/2020 are in this distribution.
For the normal functioning of such a large library, some changes have been made to the structure and naming of files and folders. This allows you to use all the patches without problems, but can cause patch loading errors in older projects if you have previously used components of this library with a different folder structure. Such situations are solved quite simply with the help of search and redirection, since the library is structured as much as possible.
– The peer-to-peer folder structure in the library with 500 banks is very inconvenient for practical use, so the banks of this manufacturer are grouped into subfolders. Since Omnisphere considers all subfolders in folders located in Patches to be part of the same bank, an unobvious problem arises: if there are the same patch names in subfolders, then only one of the patches can be loaded into Omnisphere. This problem is present, for example, in this distribution: rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5607192
For this reason, all the same file names in subfolders are renamed by adding numbers or letters to the patch name.
– With the proposed folder structure, subfolders are considered library categories, and categories in subfolders (third nesting level) are ignored. This can create some inconvenience when using banks that do not use categories in the patch name (for example, BELL, ARP, etc.). This is easily solved by switching to a peer-to-peer structure: we move the subfolders to the root of the Patches folder and delete the old folder with the prt_omn.index file. Restart Omnisphere, wait until the black screen disappears.
– Removed duplicate banks that came out under different names
– Removed empty folders
– Partially removed special characters in patch names (#,(,),{,},[,],–)
– Removed junk words in bank names (omnisphere, the, bank, library, sound, audio, vol, etc.)
– Roman numerals in bank names are replaced with Arabic
– If there are additional banks, all banks are numbered starting from the first, in the absence of subsequent banks removed numbering from the first
– Removed all unnecessary files that are not related to the functioning of the library (documents, images not used by Omnisphere, service files of operating systems and other garbage)
– Graphic covers have been added to some libraries

INSTALLATION :

1. Mount the downloaded ISO image.
2. Copy (merge) all subfolders from the STEAM folder of the image to the STEAM folder of your Omnisphere installation.
3. Delete the file .STEAMOmnisphereSoundsourcesUserzmap.index in your STEAM folder.
4. After copying is completed, launch Omnisphere (application or plug-in) and wait until the tool interface appears instead of a black screen.
This process may take a long time, 10-30 minutes, depending on the speed of your computer.
At this time, the index files prt_omn.index and mlt_omn.index are created in the copied folders, and the zmap.index file, which is necessary for the normal functioning of the library, is recreated.