Tracktion Atmosia 3 (update to 3.1.0)

[Spitfire31]

The genre and layout reminds me a lot of Biotek, also represented by Tracktion.

Why would I need Atmosia if I already have BioTek?
/JHS

[Lind0n]

The genre and layout reminds me a lot of Biotek, also represented by Tracktion.

Why would I need Atmosia if I already have BioTek?
/JHS

I get asked about BioTek comparisons a lot - I wonder why? - I have nothing at all to do with BioTek, so watch out for my answer, Im certainly no BioTek expert as it's an in-house Tracktion product.

I *think* Biotek is a more "generalist" synth/hybrid product, so a lot more voices are possible but none of them are focused on the atmospheric realm that Atmosia is aiming for. Obviously the power of BioTek comes at a price - its more complicated to use, and Im not sure BioTek has quite the modulation options Atmosia3 does (but as I say Im no BioTek expert...), why not just try the demo for yourself and see if its a fit? Tracktion certainly thought it was different enough from BioTek to include it in the roster...

[BBFG#]

The genre and layout reminds me a lot of Biotek, also represented by Tracktion.

Why would I need Atmosia if I already have BioTek?
/JHS

I get asked about BioTek comparisons a lot - I wonder why? - I have nothing at all to do with BioTek, so watch out for my answer, Im certainly no BioTek expert as it's an in-house Tracktion product.

I *think* Biotek is a more "generalist" synth/hybrid product, so a lot more voices are possible but none of them are focused on the atmospheric realm that Atmosia is aiming for. Obviously the power of BioTek comes at a price - its more complicated to use, and Im not sure BioTek has quite the modulation options Atmosia3 does (but as I say Im no BioTek expert...), why not just try the demo for yourself and see if its a fit? Tracktion certainly thought it was different enough from BioTek to include it in the roster...

I've become wary of their demo installs as they often won't truly uninstall. Some have no uninstall or will not do so under Windows app manager when there is an entry there. Do you have a demo that can be downloaded outside of the Tracktion DM that has an uninstall also?
(This is why I gave up on ever putting Waveform on my system(s) again.)
And finding the same problem with Collective 1&2 now. Sometimes we need to completely remove things for a clean install and Tracktion doesn't seem to understand that.

[Lind0n]

I've become wary of their demo installs as they often won't truly uninstall. Some have no uninstall or will not do so under Windows app manager when there is an entry there. Do you have a demo that can be downloaded outside of the Tracktion DM that has an uninstall also?
(This is why I gave up on ever putting Waveform on my system(s) again.)
And finding the same problem with Collective 1&2 now. Sometimes we need to completely remove things for a clean install and Tracktion doesn't seem to understand that.

Like all small independent 3rd Party developers we are at the mercy of the distributor, and in this case Tracktion and their Download Manager, if DM cant work with it we dont get to ship it. Having said that I think the DM is pretty reliable, transparent, and better than many of the "other" download managers. But yes there's little or no uninstall system I can see, but that's true of any major large scale complex install, and ours is no different, our in-plugin setup system has to put content in 2 user defined places and a further 3 or 4 system folders, so a universal uninstaller is in fact a big ask of Tracktion's DM.

But if you download and install the product as a demo and find you don't like it give me a shout over at CR and I will point out exactly what and where you need to remove to get back a "cleaned" system.

[Gribs]

Windows 11 is reporting that the size of the library on disk is 4.36 GB. So it is not too small and not too large: a good size. The GUI does not appear to be resizable,
...

The GUI should be entirely resizable, there's a small tab in the bottom right corner, click and drag this to resize the interface.

I don't see it in Bitwig

Atmosia Screenshot 2025-11-13 150438.jpg

[Gribs]

The genre and layout reminds me a lot of Biotek, also represented by Tracktion.

Why would I need Atmosia if I already have BioTek?
/JHS

I get asked about BioTek comparisons a lot - I wonder why?

(snip)

The "Easy" page of the BioTek 3 GUI looks similar to Atmosia 3 in some ways, but otherwise you are correct. BioTek is more like a combination subtractive/FM/sample-based hybrid (no wavetables AFAIK) that allows multiple layers in a combination patch. It is not dedicated to atmospheric sounds based on a library of multi-samples. It is possible to load one's own samples into the synth, but AFAIK it does not admit multi-samples.

I bought a license for Atmosia 3. It has a good intro price, especially from JRRShop or AudioDeluxe.

If you buy from the latter, I noticed that their activation link for Tracktion software is incorrect. The correct link is: https://www.tracktion.com/redeem

[Gribs]

FYI the window resizing option also does not appear to be present when the plugin in loaded into Unify 2.

[Lind0n]

FYI the window resizing option also does not appear to be present when the plugin in loaded into Unify 2.

Yeah I just checked here too, its missing..damn it. OK -:

(*embarrassed cough*)

Look for this feature to be (re)added in V3.0.1......

Sorry for setting expectations...

[Gribs]

FYI the window resizing option also does not appear to be present when the plugin in loaded into Unify 2.

Yeah I just checked here too, its missing..damn it. OK -:

(*embarrassed cough*)

Look for this feature to be (re)added in V3.0.1......

Sorry for setting expectations...

No worries.

[Puduku]

Purchased! Oh yes, for sure!!

[DCrown]

Listened to preset demo.
is it a tool to make dark times even darker?
It has that Biotech touch but with an more evil vibe
I can imagine it for horror movies, I am more into music, though

[talby]

Isn't it possible to release a version for Linux, as well?

[Tj Shredder]

As to Sample Import: this has come up before in other products. Importing a single wav file is certainly possible to do, and has a conceptually simple enough workflow. But Atmosia is a multi-sampled engine, with all the added quality and lack of anti-aliased sound associated with that. We may add single-wav file import at some point, but so far we dont know of any product(point us at it if you do) that isnt itself a full blown sampler(like say Kontakt) that allows multi-sample import in a workflow thats not massively complex or tedious.

Simply allow sfz import. It would open multisample import without hassle…
Does it support MPE? This is the mandatory feature to buy any instrument for me…

[Lind0n]

As to Sample Import: this has come up before in other products. Importing a single wav file is certainly possible to do, and has a conceptually simple enough workflow. But Atmosia is a multi-sampled engine, with all the added quality and lack of anti-aliased sound associated with that. We may add single-wav file import at some point, but so far we dont know of any product(point us at it if you do) that isnt itself a full blown sampler(like say Kontakt) that allows multi-sample import in a workflow thats not massively complex or tedious.

Simply allow sfz import. It would open multisample import without hassle…
Does it support MPE? This is the mandatory feature to buy any instrument for me…

I will look at sfz import....

..and no it doesn't support MPE (at the moment).

[Lind0n]

Isn't it possible to release a version for Linux, as well?

It's on the list of things to do, but to be honest I'm not even sure our distributor (Tracktion) supports Linux in their Download Manager...perhaps someone better informed could let me know.