KVR Audio

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:21 am

t3toooo wrote:
hibidy wrote: What I thought it was going to be was a soundscape bonanza
you mean like this, for soundscapes?

You just can't do a drive-by tease like that! How'd you do the strings? Frickin' love this! Reminiscent of Fishtank Ensemble, a band I dig.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:24 am

(opens absynth and plans on an evening of trying to get to know it better)

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:26 am

t3toooo wrote:
hibidy wrote: What I thought it was going to be was a soundscape bonanza
you mean like this, for soundscapes?

Oh yeah, I'm trying to get those sounds right now.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:28 am

swartzfeger wrote:
t3toooo wrote:
hibidy wrote: What I thought it was going to be was a soundscape bonanza
you mean like this, for soundscapes?
You just can't do a drive-by tease like that! How'd you do the strings? Frickin' love this! Reminiscent of Fishtank Ensemble, a band I dig.

This is Absynth?

That is catchy as can be.. very lively too.. as if not played with a keyboard but you hooked it to your violin somehow..

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:33 am

EDIT

@bike song: I feel like breaking dishes when I listen to it

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:34 am

I had a long play with it last night and I'm just NOT into it. I have a few other synths that are like "I want THIS sound" and I plug them up and I get that sound

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:43 am

The main reason I don't use Absynth is simply because the GUI was designed in a time gone past.. back when giant cathode ray boxes with low resolution used to fill desk space.

The fonts are small and all UI components are crammed together with the UI window also being taller than wider. It is a mess.

Sounds great, just can't see (well) what I'm programming... Hopefully NI addresses this with Absynth 6 sometime next decade when they finally get off their butts and release something interesting (such as updates to products they already have released instead of creating new distractions/lines of revenue for their developers to manage).

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:49 am

Yes I'm a NI sucka and I'm glad to say it

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:54 am

VitaminD wrote:The main reason I don't use Absynth is simply because the GUI was designed in a time gone past.. back when giant cathode ray boxes with low resolution used to fill desk space.

The fonts are small and all UI components are crammed together with the UI window also being taller than wider. It is a mess.

Sounds great, just can't see (well) what I'm programming... Hopefully NI addresses this with Absynth 6 sometime next decade when they finally get off their butts and release something interesting (such as updates to products they already have released instead of creating new distractions/lines of revenue for their developers to manage).

Well said

alexfalcao · Post by **alexfalcao** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:06 am

Steve Roach used Abynth, here his comments on EM edition of Dec 2005.
"I love [Native Instruments] Absynth, and still play with that"
http://emusician.com/em_spotlight/steve_roach/

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:07 am

why no love? its like the brock lesnar of softsynths. looks intimidating as hell and if you have the balls to challenge it, your get your ass kicked.

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:39 am

For NI it's the big thing to have over 2100 presets (where most of them are unusable and too experimental) and because of the "semi-modular signal flow" (but for such semi-modular stuff we have much better sounding and easier to use synth this days like Zebra).

Afaik it's some of the first synth NI made after the ideas of Brian Clevinger and so they will not drop them. But they have also much better synth today like Massive.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:46 am

I absolutely adore Absynth. I've been using it for years and it just keeps getting better. It is always my first go-to synth for any kind of video scoring work when I need to come up with sound effects, ambiences, or interesting melodic elements. Not long ago I scored a whole video just using the mutations function, and I got tons of compliments on the soundtrack.

I can appreciate how Absynth might seem obtuse to the casual user, but the sound mangling possibilities are endless. I've never even touched the external-audio-as-modulation-source capabilities! Really powerful tool.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:19 am

one of my main synth too, much appreciated for the creation of numerous, deep soundscapes...

Amon1973 · Post by **Amon1973** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:29 am

I don't agree with "unusable" and "too experimental". That kind of stuff is what Absynth is made to do, it's not suitable for everything, but it excels at what it is conceived to create.
It is up to the user to choose the right context - or simply ignore it because it does not fit the genre he/she is creating.

Absynth can also create more traditional sounds, but then I'll prefer to fire up Z3ta+, Albino, Massive. I see it like with guitars - you won't be using a semi-hollow to record black metal like you won't use an EMG81 loaded ESP to perform jazz.

Absynth: why no love?