Abyss released

[Splidge]

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Dawesome\ABYSS\Data

[c0nsilience]

Thank you. So, on macOS, the user manual, data folder, and factory preset folder show up under Computer>Library>Application Support>Dawesome>Abyss. I got it to work once I relocated the data folder and factory preset folder to User>Library>Application Support>Dawesome>Abyss

[Double Tap]

I don't think it's a rompler. There are about 2100 .ts2 files, presumably one preset timbre for each coloured blob. It mostly sounds like FM synthesis. There's a bit of a missed opportunity when selecting the timbres in the blob cloud in that you get the timbre closest to the mouse pointer rather than it blending several of the closest according to distance from the pointer. The blending takes place in the horizontal strip above once you've chosen several of the coloured blobs.

I would guess that there will eventually be additional 'packs' of .ts2 files.

I suppose the reason I say rompler is because it doesn't seem to generate sound itself - it needs to read something, ie these .ts2 files that I don't have. It's not a granulator or sampler like Spacecraft because as far as I can tell you can't load any of your own sounds into it. If it was FM, it would surely have several oscillators but I can't find them - the envelopes at the side look great, really pleasingly customisable, but they are only modulators.

[c0nsilience]

Double Tap, if you're on a Mac, you have the .ts2 files, the installer just installed them in the wrong library (i.e., the Computer library vs the User library).

[c0nsilience]

It is 100% a rompler. Reminds me of Iris 2 without the waveform editing ability (or waveforms) and a much simpler/cleaner UI. A Brian Eno machine. Fun!

[Double Tap]

Thanks - I saw that and tried but whatever I've done hasn't worked - I'll pick it up tomorrow I think.

[WasteLand]

It is 100% a rompler. Reminds me of Iris 2 without the waveform editing ability (or waveforms) and a much simpler/cleaner UI. A Brian Eno machine. Fun!

a rompler is in my book a different thing, but you mean; it is sample based? even, i can't remember the name now, so this is sentence that will disappear in the abyss..

[c0nsilience]

It’s like, if this is even a thing, additive + phase distortion as a rompler? I can’t find any oscillators. It is sample playback, as in each sound color is a sound. Each one can be combined with another or many others. Strange.

[Irate_Wombat_dot_com]

It’s like, if this is even a thing, additive + phase distortion as a rompler? I can’t find any oscillators. It is sample playback, as in each sound color is a sound. Each one can be combined with another or many others. Strange.

My guess would be that these are resynthesized samples and the editing menu does various things to the harmonics. Looking at the timbres using Vonexgo Span shows as much. For instance, dialing down detail to a minimum and you end up getting a sine wave for a lot of the timbres.

You can't modulate the selections in the editing menu, right? I'd be more interested in buying Abyss if that was the case. Plus, if there was a bit more control with the FX and envelopes.

[c0nsilience]

Your guess is spot on. Nope, in fact there is very little modulation or CC control at all. My guess is that this was done to simplify the UI as much as possible.

So, it isn’t a rompler in the sense of Nexus, but it is definitely sample playback.

[Irate_Wombat_dot_com]

Your guess is spot on. Nope, in fact there is very little modulation or CC control at all. My guess is that this was done to simplify the UI as much as possible.

So, it isn’t a rompler in the sense of Nexus, but it is definitely sample playback.

Yeah, it's weirdly both more and less complex than Harmor. Like you could actually resynthesize samples in Harmor and do some of the same manipulation of partials... but I don't think IL supports Harmor anymore.

I dunno. Not worth 80 dollars for me.

Edit- It is an interesting foundation for a synth. Even without sample resynthesis, 2100 timbres... is a lot of choices. Again, I'd be more interested in picking this up if it was possible to modulate the various parameters of the edit screen for the timbres.

[psynical]

OSX 11.4 user here and i have both presets and sound sources in Bitwig, using vst3.

[jens]

So, it isn’t a rompler in the sense of Nexus, but it is definitely sample playback.

Your definition of "sample playback" seems profoundly unusual, to say the least. Going by that definition most digital synths (even many VA ones) would be "romplers".

[c0nsilience]

Well, I am a little unusual.

[psynical]

>You can't modulate the selections in the editing menu, right?

That's kind of what the gradient in the middle is for, isn't it?