im going to buy it in town in the morning

just figured it was good enough news it deserved its own thread

It's about f!@#ing time,young man
You're going to have fun
ew

ive not been called young for years

good for you.... you've been waiting a while for that.

your gear list must be looking pretty tiptopmodern fantastic by now (as a certain hun would say)

enjoy

steve.

im certainly pleased with my arsenal
to be honest i think absynth is now just icing on an already sweet cake


after this its mtron and then waitin on minimonster but other than these im done for now

softwise anyway

hardware still want me KORG and a few bits like tambourines n shit

which korg is it your after >

steve.

ms2000

suppose then i better learn how to use it all instead of using blind luck to get me where i am now

you seem to get some pretty good results from "blind luck". maybe if you try and learn too much you'll loose that sponteneity(?)

never really looked at the ms2000 - more controls than you can shake a stick at.

steve.

You of all people are gonna get lost in the beautiful and arcane vaulted hallways of absynth...enjoy!

Congrats, Vurt. At long last, enjoy yourself man!

Vurt,

I thought the Korg was next???

Believe me man - Absynth will blow your fuckin sox off, you'll forget the Oddity and everything else for awhile

Be sure to sign up for the Yahoo group. Brian (Absynths creator) hangs out there and theres some awesom pearls of wisdom thrown about. A friendlier bunch I have yet to meet!!!

Do me a favour John? Download the Biomechanoid banks. I'd love to hear what they would sound like in the Vurts hands!

You wont regret it - I wish I was playing Absynth for the first time again

Kisses

The drunk Irish guy in the corner,
Dave

mckenic wrote:

Vurt, I thought the Korg was next???

even thats only a couple of weeks away now
next payday so long as ive tidied space for it

the axis of ambient evil beckons ...

Ahh yes. I love my MS2000r... I will never sell it. It has a brilliant layout for synthesis programming and the modulation matrix allows for some awesome effects. The 3 track step sequencer lets you to control almost everything, including the included 64 digital waveforms allowing for some cool wave-sequencing style patterns. The polyphony is not high, but the quality is good. I am almost finished with a little song using nothing but the MS2000r (and the ER-1 for a little synthetic percussion). It did require laying the tracks down one at a time, but the results were worth it.

-Tronam

PS: Oh yeah, good choice on Absynth. It's an excellent soft synth, albeit a little strange to program (for me anyways).

im steppin in to take over my fiend(sic)

errmm ...
there IS the small matter of the human sacrifice ...

why do ya think ive been fattening up yourself and ew

Compared to Absynth the MS2000 is more like a toy...

oh shizzle!

nice one vurt

ladies, start your granulizers

Summa wrote:

Compared to Absynth the MS2000 is more like a toy...

cant plug my guitar into absynth


cheer mike but tell the wretch to watch his back

intra vurt is on the horizon

vurt wrote:

cheer mike but tell the wretch to watch his back intra vurt is on the horizon

tell the wretch to watch his back, eh? do you realize what your'e dealing with?

the wretch will cockslap you up one side of britain and down the other

well take your cockslap and raise you a pistol whipping from south to north america




that wasnt me that was him
i did warn you what he was like

if you two start comparing personas , we're going to need alot more room ...

vurt wrote:

well take your cockslap and raise you a pistol whipping from south to north america that wasnt me that was him i did warn you what he was like

uh huh. I see how it is. it's so EASY to blame it on someone else. The wretch and I, we have an understanding

not to mention - the wretch has credibility: metasonix is going to host an audio example by him

understanding?
this guys mental how am i supposed to have an understanding with him

sometimes i dont even know which ones me anyway

vurt wrote:

Summa wrote: Compared to Absynth the MS2000 is more like a toy... cant plug my guitar into absynth

I'm glad that I don't have to play medieval instruments Btw. I own a microKorg, about the same synth engine but is missing the step sequencer...

vurt wrote:

why do ya think ive been fattening up yourself and ew

Wrong,bucko We've talked to the Hun contingent,and they want Vurtsicles...

One of your other personalities can play Absynth-YOU'LL be your own sacrifice
ew

Shouldn't be too long before I have version one

both vurt and mystahr are getting absynth?
cool...let the audio freakiness commence!

-ugo

congrats vurt
I second the idea of making sure you download
the biomech patches. can't wait to hear what you do with it.
freakin fantastic

well i didnt manage to get up in the morning but im going now
nay even pick up the KORG while im there

but also town got evacuated for a bomb scare whilst i was there so didnt have time to play with my korg

but i now have absynth,some salvia and a white rabbit

vurt wrote:

but also town got evacuated for a bomb scare whilst i was there so didnt have time to play with my korg but i now have absynth,some salvia and a white rabbit

My guess is at least 8 tracks before the weekend is over

WATCH OUT KVR ...

vurt wrote:

but i now have absynth,some salvia and a white rabbit

that's a nice combination
I can't see you operate absynth on salvia though

vurt wrote:

but i now have absynth,some saliva and a welsh rarebit

i know you think absynth is the mutts nuts ... but thats no reason to drool all over your toast john

slainte rob

this is me white rabbit
only need the jabberwocky and the card guards then

vurt wrote:

but also town got evacuated for a bomb scare whilst i was there so didnt have time to play with my korg

so you guffed then

vurt wrote:

but i now have absynth,some salvia and a white rabbit

fuckin ell, your local sound control sounds a bit different from ours. all they have in there are people that think they know everything about everything musical

looking forward to some absynth stuff from you then vurt

jim

muHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
the world will now be mine

i have to be honest i want to now know where and why i didnt make this decision earlier
some really strange and beautiful sounds so far

layout for current track wings of icarus/free falling


1 absynth providing lovely lush soundscapey pads noises
1 absynth with slightly more rythm goin on

one instance of energy xt with absynth,oddity and imposcar runnin as oscillators in a big modular type thing

1 imp runnin bass dutys(still cant do a decent bassline tho )


and then a couple of samplers providing this and that

some nice luscious sounds in my head at the moment

make sure you get Atmospheric and weird 2

featuring the utterly fantastic

pulse train
fluttering guitar
3 friendly satellites

Can't believe you've not had absynth before, vurt.

What a perfect match!

He's got it-I uploaded everything I have(except for a couple Biomechanoid banks that aren't in the public domain)in a .zip and sent him a link last night.
ew

same for you and cameleon
enjoy it my friend and congrats

ew wrote:

He's got it-I uploaded everything I have(except for a couple Biomechanoid banks that aren't in the public domain)in a .zip and sent him a link last night. ew

or he will have in a minute
i clean forgot what with bombs n shit


but...
i have actually been given the biomech stuff too
i believe you guys got them through some sort of donation thing?
well i will when i check them out get in touch with bio and ask if he still requires the donation before i use them and if not i will make a donation to some charity or other
hope this runs ok with you guys that got them legit,if not i will delete now

All's fine with me, I figured tossing em your way was a good promotion for Kolin.

That bonus bank oWnz..

did I hear ew say there was 2? I only knew of one & I spoke to kolin not too long ago..

Most of the Bio stuff is public domain-there's only two banks that aren't(and for one,the only people who have it besides the man himself are endmusik,fitch and myself-or at least that's what Kol told me...).
ew

and me.

edit: I guess I'm forgetable though

sickle666 wrote:

and me. edit: I guess I'm forgetable though

No-you probably didn't have it yet...
NI says they're going to be putting up an Absynth user library soon-I'm betting that bank will be the kickoff.
ew

well i wasnt gonna name names but hey ho
i dont know which bank it is ew i just know it was one from the yahoo site or somewhere bio wanted a donation for it and there were few who did so its quite exclusive

like i said i will square it with bio before i use them but i hope hes ok with it from what ive heard of his stuff in the past these should be special

ew wrote:

sickle666 wrote: and me. edit: I guess I'm forgetable though No-you probably didn't have it yet... NI says they're going to be putting up an Absynth user library soon-I'm betting that bank will be the kickoff. ew

I got one from him last year, I was only like 1 in 4 to donate to him for the yahoo user patches he placed there. It's a patch of 22 kick ass pre's..

Absynth library?

it's about fuckin time..hurah

Yeah-that one's the FIRST one.The other one I'm talking about is the one I used in No place like OM.It was supposed to be an add-on to the 2.04 update,and NI dropped the ball
ew

ahhh..so is the library an emminent thing, or just NI thinking out loud?

Considering the yahoo group, I'm really surpised there's not a library @ NI already..there's a gazillion patches for absynth all over the net.


For that matter, it's curious to me why they don't host patch uploads for ALL the synths, it's not like they're gonna eat up alotta space...

That would be fantastic.

well ...
you don't have mine then ...
nobody does except me ... and my precious ...

it loves me... my precious does ...

First....congrats to Vurt for getting hold of Absynth. As other folks have mentioned....a match made in heaven.... or somewhere similar Looking forward to hearing the results, and hope you have lots of fun. (Altho' I dont think I've commented on ur trax previously , I've liked pretty much everything I've heard....only recently got broadband and been able to tune in to the cafe)

Second.... erm...just to be clear... the bank ew is refering to is an Abs V2 bank I provided to NI, and AFAIK they still have plans to use it one way or t'other, and I wouldn't say they've necessarily 'dropped the ball' as such....but they certainly are taking their time ....what exactly they use them for is entirely up to them. A few people I've collaborated with have copies of this bank, but thats it at the moment, and its certainly NOT in the public domain, until NI decide otherwise.

The 'bonus bank' refered to was a mini bank I emailed to anyone who donated for my last public domain bank....therefore quite an exclusive

I'm *almost* finished a new 128 patch V2 bank which will be available from www.infinitetrajectory.co.uk....."soon" I'm planning to provide all the old banks there too, but in the meantime, you can download my most recent public domain bank from the absynth users group @ yahoo..... the older banks have been moved here:
http://www.brainstorm-music.com/absynth/3_OldBanks%20-%20folder%202/

cheers

[bio]
www.universal-communication.net
www.kkwantum.co.uk

cheers ...
your work is a foundation we all build upon ...

I'm really looking forward to some new stuff from you. I more or less based my Zebra purchase on the weight of the presets you did for Urs.

so its symbiant now then
let me know what you would like me to do about a donation to either your goodself for whatever,or some good cause you believe in and it is done

i would have done so at the time except i only picked up absynth bout 12 hours ago


cheers for listenin btw
hope i can do something to impress you with your own sounds

vurt wrote:

same for you and cameleon enjoy it my friend and congrats

Thanks, vurt. About time we got that collab under way sometime, eh?

Summa wrote:

vurt wrote: Summa wrote: Compared to Absynth the MS2000 is more like a toy... cant plug my guitar into absynth I'm glad that I don't have to play medieval instruments Btw. I own a microKorg, about the same synth engine but is missing the step sequencer...

Aww, but the microKorg takes almost all of the fun out of the instrument (at least for me) by gutting it's brilliant interface layout, stripping it down to 1/4th as many buttons and knobs, halfing the number of vocoder bands and removing the multi-track step sequencer which not only triggers notes but can modulate almost everything. The intuitive VA signal flow and hands-on mod matrix become buried within a small number of cheap multi-function buttons and knobs, while many of the finer details of the synth engine are completely inaccessible due to its crude, minimalistic red LCD that has to approximate alphabetical characters. I mean, why bother getting hardware at all if the interface is completely marginalized like this and the only way to truly control all of it's functions is through a software editor? You might as well just get a more powerful soft synth instead.

-Tronam

i prefer to think of horses for courses

i mentioned it earlier

WOI/FF

just a quick sketch so far but my first outing with absynth

the room is spinning in the other direction ...
the walls have gone all taffy-like ...

Had just found this as well, you sneaky man

And we have an absynth lift off......



This is another beginning of the end

Looking forward to all that is yet to come

told you id stop it spinning tho normal,didnt mean to get it started the other way tho


glad you guys enjoyed
but man this sounded different last night on the salvia kick
glad i said it was only a sketch

Tronam wrote:

Aww, but the microKorg takes almost all of the fun out of the instrument (at least for me) by gutting it's brilliant interface layout, stripping it down to 1/4th as many buttons and knobs, halfing the number of vocoder bands and removing the multi-track step sequencer which not only triggers notes but can modulate almost everything. The intuitive VA signal flow and hands-on mod matrix become buried within a small number of cheap multi-function buttons and knobs, while many of the finer details of the synth engine are completely inaccessible due to its crude, minimalistic red LCD that has to approximate alphabetical characters. I mean, why bother getting hardware at all if the interface is completely marginalized like this and the only way to truly control all of it's functions is through a software editor? -Tronam

Hmmm... I don't need much knops for that handfull of parameters, I guess my luck is that I worked with far less compfortable to use synths in the 80s and besides the Evolver the microKorg is the synth with most of the knobs in my setup...
Vocoder wise I prefere Vokator and I mainly use the microKorg as small controller when soundprogramming and for outdoor use. It's fun having something else to play with while lying in the sun and the gf is sleeping

Quote:

You might as well just get a more powerful soft synth instead.

True, engine wise it's a toy compared to most of my other soft/harware and that's how I use it...

...Summa

vurt wrote:

i mentioned it earlier WOI/FF just a quick sketch so far but my first outing with absynth

YIPPIEEE!!!

More....

Dave

absynth=

Vurt,

Never ceases to amaze me the sounds you get with many of the same tools I use.



Dave

its easy just forget everything youve learned and have no clue what your actually doing


watch out for alice

shameless plug alert



enter,if you dare

just been having a listen to some of the bits various users have sent me preset wise
i can see this next week is gonna be fun

Hey vurt
Without going thru this huge thread, but just to let you know I did some ab patches and there on Patch Arena. Working on some more too.

TC

tconrardy wrote:

Hey vurt Without going thru this huge thread, but just to let you know I did some ab patches and there on Patch Arena. Working on some more too. TC

I've tried them, they're good

spaceman wrote:

tconrardy wrote: Hey vurt Without going thru this huge thread, but just to let you know I did some ab patches and there on Patch Arena. Working on some more too. TC I've tried them, they're good

yeah..not your typical ab patches, but more space-pad inclined.Not so wild. Ya gotta hold a chord for at least 30 seconds for the thing to evolve on some of them. Did try my hand at S%H RYMS however. A bit harder to master on the ab.Trying some wave importing now and using the grainulizer.

TC

so should i even bother learning to program this
i already have over 50meg of glo patches

you should familiarize yourself with the copy/paste functions for the osc , filter , mods , envs , and channels ...

it can be quite fun to take parts of different patches , and re-assemble them ...

of course , don't forget the sampler and granular
oscillators , and importing you own waves ...

just a note:
from what i've read of the new Rhino specs , Tick has included some of these same functions into Rhino ...
that should be quite interesting as well ...

i refer you to rule 79b section c subclause 7a-stop temting vurt to spend money,he has a wife and child who need to eat even if he can live on crisps and fresh air

vurt wrote:

so should i even bother learning to program this i already have over 50meg of glo patches

Oh yeah-there's just so much you can do with it.As normal said,become familiar with copying and pasting between patches.Start saving your favorite parts to the appropriate library,where you can just plug them into any patch after that.Spend some time with the envelopes-that's what makes Absynth as powerful as it is.You can use the pipe or multicomb effects and do VERY abstract physical models.
Even Symbiant's patches only scrape the surface of what can be done
ew

i wasnt actually being serious

just pointin out that since the start of this thread ive een sent it now goes over 60 meg of stuff for absynth ive probably got more patches than most of you guys that have had it since version one

well go ahead & post em all so we can all consolidate our collection

Absynth is my main synth. Its one of those rare synths that lends itself well to any sound you can imagine. Songs don't sound like they were constructed with a singular synth either, which is nice

ive not seen daylight or other people for four days now and what is food?

vurt wrote:

ive not seen daylight or other people for four days now and what is food?

Its like you are Frodo going up mount doom. The ring is Absynth: you Can't Live without it!

next line: vurt..of the NINE fingers...and the Ab of Doom!

TC

tconrardy wrote:

vurt wrote: ive not seen daylight or other people for four days now and what is food? Its like you are Frodo going up mount doom. The ring is Absynth: you Can't Live without it! next line: vurt..of the NINE fingers...and the Ab of Doom! TC

Tim...even from a fellow Tolkien admirer..

You have to be one of the biggest geeks I have ever met.