How come nobody ever talks about Absynth anymore?

[dblock]

How much more can you say about something that old and not updated? This isn't exactly a case where old becomes new again especially if Native Instruments doesn't try to make it new again.

[Kalamata Kid]

Absynth is absolutely abandoned by NI.

[SLiC]

Absynth and many other of the NI products will either need to be significantly updated or dropped as at some point an increasing number of users will go 4K or MPE or any other modern VST requirement....they are getting their arse kicked by Arturia who did a great job updating even their oldest instruments.

[dblock]

Well, we're talking about Absynth alright just not in the way I think the op intended..

[0degree]

It looks like Massive X gave them a bit of momentum so why not update Absynth? It’s hard for me to imagine it would be unsuccessful

[liv]

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[McLilith]

For years, I heard professional sound designers and cinematic composers brag about Absynth. If it was great then, it should still be great now. Humans can be so fickle sometimes, especially when the latest shiny object comes along.

[mumpcake]

One other thing about absynth is that you have to work for a lot of things. You don't necessarily have chorus or flanger or phasers effects. But you can do those things by modulating the right parameters.

Maybe since the are on a roll with wavetables Abby might be next. It already has waveshaping of sorts..

[jackmazzotti]

The best Absynth upgrade it right here. Use them in the LFOs!!!
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[monomaker]

I don't know what's harder about typing cents in the little box in the Absynth interface vs that, I don't.

I wouldn't use that interface for input because I use quite a few scales with lots of notes, but the Scala export works fine so it doesn't matter, just takes a bit longer to export the gly.

doing arithmetic my own self is admittedly not ideal

This is why I like authoring with Scala, it deals with the maths for you, gives you decent stats and has a great range of options for export.

goalpost was Abynth's is 'not good', and I think it's pretty good.

I'll concede Absynth's tuning capabilities are a lot better than I remember, more so than any other NI synth. It would be nice if I didn't have to export a file specifically for it, but being able to freely retune at all is great. I pine for lockable params, not just for tuning. Regardless, I've made 3 tracks with Absynth so far this week, I forgot how good it can sound so I'm glad I read this thread; makes me hope for an Absynth 6.

Ok, I loaded the 'microtuning', which is what I'd usually choose,

That's the built in script, limited to 12 notes, +/- 50 cents range. I'm afraid that's no good for me, I want (a lot) more keys and greater range. This one seems to me to be more reliable (at handling pitch bends, other scripting) for what you're suggesting : https://www.orangetreesamples.com/blog/ ... ing-script .

...but still, no cigar for the note count/range.

[monomaker]

It's impossible to write a microtuning script for Kontakt that retunes reliably in all circumstances, it cannot really account for any specific detunings other scripts might be doing (i.e. factory mono/glide/unison script).

Thanks, I have long suspected this was the case. What's the best script you're aware of? I'm looking for something with full keyboard retuning, where I can cut and paste/load the 128 values from Scala, that works as well as can be expected given the kind of limitations you've alluded to.

[Harry_HH]

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[reggie1979]

Absynth is absolutely abandoned by NI.

It's now called "abandosynth"

[jancivil]

This one seems to me to be more reliable (at handling pitch bends, other scripting) for what you're suggesting : https://www.orangetreesamples.com/blog/ ... ing-script .

...but still, no cigar for the note count/range.

thanks for that, CC control is extra cool.

I use a microtuner for generally less than 12. The really dwell in the inbetween stuff I like pitch bend lane for.
I also like 'harmonic' in Absynth, harnonic series.

[EvilDragon]

It's impossible to write a microtuning script for Kontakt that retunes reliably in all circumstances, it cannot really account for any specific detunings other scripts might be doing (i.e. factory mono/glide/unison script).

Thanks, I have long suspected this was the case. What's the best script you're aware of? I'm looking for something with full keyboard retuning, where I can cut and paste/load the 128 values from Scala, that works as well as can be expected given the kind of limitations you've alluded to.

You can't exactly copy/paste things into a script - at least not in batch of 128 (one by one is possible - but tedious), at the very least all the detuning values would need to be stuffed into an NKA file, using millicents instead of floating point numbers.