Native Devices has unveiled Absynth 6, marking the return of a legendary semi-modular synthesizer constructed for creating textures and soundscapes that evolve and breathe, including new, otherworldly dimensions to your sound. Developed in partnership with Absynth’s unique creator, Brian Clevinger, Absynth 6 provides a modern AI-powered looking expertise and fashionable compatibility. Absynth’s signature suite of results and groundbreaking hybrid engine mix granular, FM, wavetable, and subtractive synthesis for sounds that transcend patches to create whole soundscapes.
“Our very first product – practically 30 years in the past – was a synth”, says Simon Cross, Chief Product and Technical Officer at Native Devices. “Returning to Absynth brings us again to the guts of what conjures up us. It stays one of the vital singular devices in digital music, and we at all times knew its revival may solely include the involvement of Brian Clevinger himself.”
“Once I initially created Absynth,” says Brian Clevinger, “I wished an instrument that invited folks to lose themselves in sound. Seeing it evolve into Absynth 6 has been genuinely shifting. It nonetheless has that unusual, alive high quality, solely now with the vary and precision to encourage a brand new technology of explorers.”
Absynth 6 represents an evolution for probably the greatest beloved delicate synths of all time, one which enabled a technology of producers and composers to create by no means earlier than heard sounds throughout ambient and dance music, and scores for movie, tv and video video games. Reflecting this heritage, Absynth 6 launches with a collection of presets, created by musicians that greatest embody this stressed creativity; Brian Eno and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith at launch, with extra to be added in future updates.
Key Options
Distinctive sounds: A hybrid semi-modular engine combines subtractive, FM, sample-based, and granular strategies
Dwelling modulation: Sculpt textures that breathe and remodel with the hyper-detailed 68-point envelope generator
Inspiring mutations: The basic Mutator affords clever preset technology with depth and randomness controls for immediate inspiration
Trendy expressiveness: Full MPE and polyphonic aftertouch help permits nuanced, per-note performances
Encompass sound and microtuning: Absynth 6 options true multichannel encompass spatialization and MTS-ESP help for international microtuning and new harmonic programs
Preset Explorer: The preset library is organized into an intuitive visible map so musicians can browse sounds by timbral high quality, or as a basic browser
Thoughts-bending results: Spatially bend Absynth’s distinctive suite of inventive results like Aetherizer and Cloud Filter with per-effect encompass management
Legacy patches and presets: Discover classic patches all the way in which again to Absynth 1, and cargo your personal presets from Absynth 4 and 5
New artist presets: From Brian Eno, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Richard Devine, with extra TBA
Absynth Preset Explorer
The brand new Absynth Preset Explorer displays Native Devices’ evolving method to AI: cut back friction, preserve artists in management, and encourage exploration over automation. A deep-learning mannequin analyses the timbral traits of each preset, arranging the library into an intuitive visible map so musicians can browse by really feel reasonably than scrolling by way of linear lists. Easy filters let customers form their very own aesthetic path, whereas the system handles the heavy evaluation behind the scenes. “AI ought to widen the inventive discipline, not collapse it,” says Andy Sarroff, Head of Utilized AI at Native Devices. “The Preset Explorer listens carefully, then offers that perception again to the musician in a approach that sparks discovery. It’s a information, not an alternative choice to craft.”
Bizarre by Design
The Preset Explorer has additionally knowledgeable the visible marketing campaign for Absynth 6, created in collaboration with digital artist Weirdcore, recognized for his visuals for Aphex Twin, Arca, MIA, Tame Impala, Yaeji, Overmono and extra; and radical post-internet designer SWARMM. Taking inspiration from the AI powered matrix of the preset explorer, in addition to Absynth’s repute for world constructing, the hero video transports us to a liminal city geography, intervened by sweeping glyphs and gaussian-splat renders, conjuring a hidden world of creativity past the floor of the odd.
Weirdcore will proceed to deliver Absynth 6’s Bizarre by Design philosophy to life with the rolling-release of specifically commissioned ‘visualizer artworks’, based mostly on unique Absynth 6 compositions from a bunch of famend DJ’s and producers. Every unique observe might be paired with customized visuals, together with an unique observe by multi-hyphenate Australian polymath HAAi, with extra artists to be added within the weeks to return.
The discharge of Absynth 6 continues a legacy and passes the baton, presenting new potentialities of sound creation, and opening the sphere to a technology of producers, unafraid to discover, and able to make their mark on the longer term.
Get all the small print at www.native-instruments.com
Pricing & Availability
MSRP: $199 / €199 / £179
Absynth 2-5 house owners can improve to Absynth 6 for $99 / €99
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