Absynth 6

[aMUSEd]

I'm not actually seeing a timeline on this anywhere - am I missing something? but it is exciting news for sure.

It's not officially announced so the closest to any sort of 'timeline' is here:

https://community.native-instruments.co ... gy-officer

'As ever, I can’t share many details about what we’re working on next however…

We’ve been working hard at a new version of a much-loved synth product. We’d planned to ship this in November, but we’re taking the time to make it extra-awesome. Not only does it bring the original bang up to date, but it includes a completely new paradigm for browsing presets and sounds that’s frankly mesmerising.'

So from this maybe early December?

[zerocrossing]

Once ED didn't say it was fake news.. I personally take it as gospel that it will be and is real.
rsp

yeah, thats what im thinking!!

unless he has actually become "evil"

“Become?” Maybe he was born evil.

[EvilDragon]

[MrJubbly]

If it's real, it's amazing news !

P.S. : If any NI people is reading this : please, if you do Absynth 6, let us load old Absynth 5 presets in the new version.

Even better, let us do a "copy settings" in Absynth 5 and "paste settings" in Absynth 6, exactly like Fabfilter, Klanghelm, TDR, Valhalla etc. etc. do between plugin instances (and between different plugin versions with ProQ).

I know a synth is not like an EQ or a reverb, but I've got so many sessions with Absynth instances that I may not be able to recall when Rosetta will not exist anymore, I'd be super happy to have a simple way to upgrade any Absynth 5 instance into an Absynth 6...

The copy/paste presets between Pro-Q v3 and v4 was indeed a great addition. So much so, there was a request on FabFilter's forum for the same copy/paste feature to be expanded to the rest of FabFilter's product line.

This was FabFilter's response:

Without going into too much details, we have updated the way our presets are saved starting with Pro-R 2. Just like Pro-R 2, Pro-Q 4 now stores its presets as text, with readable information per parameter. This basically allows us to copy settings or parameters as text and to paste them into another instance.

While Pro-Q 3 did not include that feature yet, we have made a new version when we released Pro-Q 3 that allows the copy functionality to work without breaking its existing preset system, so it makes copying settings to Pro-Q 4 easier. With Pro-Q being such a widely used plug-in, this made replacing instances much easier as you experienced.

We're not sure yet if this can be incorporated with the other plug-ins that we'll release and their older versions , but we'll definitely check this out.

Please note that all of our legacy plug-ins will remain supported, and can be co-installed alongside their newer versions. So it's not really necessary to replace all your current instances with the latest versions.

Ralph (FabFilter) — Oct 6, 2025

However, one of the very best implementations of automatic plugin & preset migration features I've come across is what was added for Pianoteq 9.

Modartt recently introduced a new migration feature to Pianoteq 9, to allow not only automatic migration from VST2 to VST3 (which several plugins which support iPluginCompatibility also share), but also migration support from previous major releases (for e.g. v5/v6/v7/v8) over to their latest Pianoteq 9 release (if/when those previous major releases of the plugin are not available on the host device.)

Pianoteq 9.0.0 (15/10/2025)
• VST2 support removed.
• VST3 support now available on Linux (alongside Windows and macOS).
• Automatic migration of projects using an older major version of Pianoteq, when that version is not available.

I've tried it and it works! i.e. Older projects which were saved using instances of earlier major versions of Pianoteq can now automatically migrate to v9 including the correct settings/presets.

It would be great if similar migration features were also added to other plugins.

I think Absynth 6 could be a great candidate, if the coding and compatibility between versions would allow for it.

Either way, I'll definitely check out Absynth 6 and would likely buy it if NI release a worthy successor.

[gnu23]

Looking forward to this! Localized credit-card gravity well is now active.

[BBFG#]

Nice. I'm still waiting for them to announce a complete overhaul of Access before considering installing anything from them though.

[0degree]

No way! NI finally doing something cool - credit where it's due

[mothra]

wonder if this will be absynth 5 updated or something completely rebuild with high fidelity incorporating existing solutions from rhizomatic (Synestia and Plasmonic)

While I do enjoy Plasmonic, I hope Absynth stays Absynth because it was its own beast altogether..

[Echoes in the Attic]

Kore 3 next please? With Kore Kontrol Keyboards that have 8 assignable buttons per 8 knobs like it used to be in kore and like kk keyboards always should have been?

[imrae]

That would be Absynth X not Absynth 6 though.

We're talking about a company that has four tiers of "komplete", let's not rely too heavily on the naming system making sense

[EvilDragon]

However, one of the very best implementations of automatic plugin & preset migration features I've come across is what was added for Pianoteq 9.

The same automatic plugin migration is already implemented in Kontakt and Reaktor (maybe even KK and Maschine, I forget).

Kore 3 next please? With Kore Kontrol Keyboards that have 8 assignable buttons per 8 knobs like it used to be in kore and like kk keyboards always should have been?

Not gonna happen.

[Echoes in the Attic]

Kore 3 next please? With Kore Kontrol Keyboards that have 8 assignable buttons per 8 knobs like it used to be in kore and like kk keyboards always should have been?

Not gonna happen.

I know

[dune_rave]

Absynth 6 is late.
Absynth was neglected for years, and in the meantime several other synths were released, and many of those were continuously improved.
So when Absynth6 will be released , i will be able to layer Zebra3 and Omni3 + all my other synths in Unify2. Why the hell would i need Absynth6 anymore?

[electro]

Any hopes of a continued Reaktor?

[enCiphered]

Absynth 6 is late.
Absynth was neglected for years, and in the meantime several other synths were released, and many of those were continuously improved.
So when Absynth6 will be released , i will be able to layer Zebra3 and Omni3 + all my other synths in Unify2. Why the hell would i need Absynth6 anymore?

By that standard, no synth should ever exist after the first few, because we can already layer X + Y + Z in Unify.
Absynth wasn’t designed to win a stacking competition. It carved out an aesthetic and modulation philosophy nobody else truly replicated. It was the synth people reached for when they wanted sounds you couldn’t patch together in three others.

If version 6 arrives, the question isn’t why would you need it?
It’s why would you turn down a tool that does things your stack of megasynths can’t touch without 12 workarounds and a headache?
If you need three flagships and Unify just to replace one synth, that kind of proves Absynth’s value rather than kills it.