I received my copy yesterday and it crashes while loading some of its factory presets - and I guess Native Instruments' support doesn't work on sundays (and it's Tour de France, too!) - so anybody else having this problem (but I fear it's buggy because it's the first release...)?

Absynth 2 ?
In my place it's still July 6th ( or so ... )

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. On the NI site it says that Absynth 2 will be available on July 11th. Where did you buy it loachm?

/Yoss

... I bought it along with other stuff at www.blackfield.de (software leasing - a fine thing!). I was also very surprised to see, that I got version 2...
by the way - these anounced 800 presets doesn't seem to be completely new patches since the creation date of some files isn't 2003 and some of them doesn't use the new granular or sample synthesis - but I don't mind this marketing trick - they're still very IMPRESSIVE!

There's only 128 NEW presets, the rest are the old ones. Even says that on their website.

Devon

...whoops, should drop by at NI's homepage more often...

loachm, bastard !

... you shouldn't envy too much - I've downloaded loads of presets from the absynth yahoo group and half of them chrash the program when I load them. that's only half the fun and I hope NI can tell me tomorrow, what's wrong with it...

Less envious suddenly ... have you experienced crashes while tweaking too ?

Are you certain it's 2.0? Maybe it's only 1.3.x with the option to freely upgrade it to 2.0. If it's 1.3.x try update to the latest version, what should solve most of your problems...

I agree with Summa, what do you have in about menu?, I cannot to belive that somebody can have Absynth 2 before their officional release.

Some shops were a little naughty and sold Reaktor 4 a week or two
before its release date .

...definately 2.0 - I'll get my new glasses this week - but I can recognize this appearently new design - even if it's a bit blury . After hours of trying, i got the great idea of changing the sound driver - I suppose there is something wrong with the ASIO drivers, because I can at least open a few more patches...

...tweaking is fine - the crashes happen only when I open certain patches - perhaps they are not certificated????

man.. i'm anxious for this, buggy or not

I'm looking forward to this (upgrade?)

OT .. jdg,

Just had to check out your location URL, curiousity etc ..

It looks like a still from "Enemy of the State" with Gene Hackman


1984


Later,
Aaron.

Raven wrote:

Some shops were a little naughty and sold Reaktor 4 a week or two before its release date .

- Most software tend to be "released" a week or two before the release date, but it's seldom an official release.

a buggy release from ni ? no !!!! it can't be true ? i've never heard of anything so absurd. i mean, look at the rock solid stability of reaktor 4 and sessions - no bugs there. and all the happy kontakt users - they are always saying how good akai disk loading and direct-from-disk streaming is.

now you come here to say another ni product has bugs - well i'm shocked do you think that ni just throws these apps out the door fast to make as much money as possible, not caring about quality ? crazy !

Hmm...I find this a bit worrying, especially seeing as it is Brian Clevinger who does the coding for Absynth, and not NI.

Tell me, are you using the PC version of Absynth? Or the Mac version?

...O.K, boys & girls, just in order to stop this before it gets an irrational rumor or harms NI: their support has contacted me as a registered user to deal with this and I'll see what will happen. I had just asked yesterday, because this is the place where you can read the latest news about VSTis and I thought I might not be the only one to have this problem, but anyway - it's funny, how such things evolve - I might post a photo of my absynth's package, if someone could tell me, how this can be done...

Relax! Nobody blamed you for anything.

I guess NI will have a nice talk to this online shop though...

twatus wrote:

I'm looking forward to this (upgrade?) OT .. jdg, Just had to check out your location URL, curiousity etc .. It looks like a still from "Enemy of the State" with Gene Hackman 1984 Later, Aaron.

yeah strange no.. thats my house!!!!!!

...yep, dr. wackler, I don't feel blamed at all, I just wanted to stop this thing before it gets as ridiculous as some other topics in this forum did - I wasn't aware of the official release date, if I was, it would have been clear to me, that this is not going to become a technical discussion.

well now also the warez kids have it and not the paid people.

what a travesty

BTW, I did not mean you. It was released by a cracking group today or yesterday

...NI has answered today, but I think I'll wait for their second try to improve before I'll post their answer...

And we're still waiting for the full review !!!!!!!!!
You have 2 days!

loachm wrote:

... I bought it along with other stuff at www.blackfield.de (software leasing - a fine thing!). I was also very surprised to see, that I got version 2...

Well, I went to visit their site and noticed that they also sell... Intakt!

Anyone place an order yet?

Is there any set date for the release of Intakt?

EDIT: I just noticed that Sam Ash claims to be able to ship Intakt within 3-5 days. That's pretty good for unreleased software!

There´s one shop in germany advertising Intakt, Hitakt, Unpluakt, Komplett and all these other mysterious NI-Frankensteins since months.
(i read them in german´s keys and keyboards magazines)

putte

Seems like the time-stretching capabilities of Intakt are much better than we were led to believe

Another week's waiting for the update . . . Absynth 2.0 update from 1.x will be available for shipping or download on July 18th. 2.0 for purchase is still slated for July 11th.

Looking forward to the update!

Oh well, perhaps this is a good thing. It might mean they're fixing last-minute bugs...

hi there

just bought the official release package of absynth 2 in vienna at a music store.
installation worked, no problems, patches also.

greets hansk

I was really looking forward to this - how come people are getting hold of copies already? Are these "legit" copies or betas or something?

hi

yes its the boxed set with cd and printed book, although the manual is not really that heavy on the new functions....

hansk

apparently (according to a message on user group), NI say Absynth 2 full retail version is shipping now.

downloadable update will follow on 18th

anyone who cant wait to hear the beast in action:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=250215#250215

all the best

biomechanoid