Whatsup folks?
It’s time once again to spend a little bit of quality time with our friends at native instruments.
Today I’m going to be checking out Absynth 5, one of their newly updated synths that dropped in October, they sent it over for review shortly after it released.
What is Absynth?
Well…according to the website:
ABSYNTH 5 is an exceptional synthesizer with unique sonic potential.
Its speciality is a limitless spectrum of unusual, evolving sounds created using the powerful, hybrid synthesis architecture and sophisticated modulation and effect system – resulting in sounds far removed from the everyday.
What’s more ABSYNTH 5 is not just a synthesizer, but a powerful effect plug-in for treating audio tracks using the unique ABSYNTH 5 effects bank.
According to me it’s a monster synthesizer capable of making plenty other-wordly sounds very easily.
Why Absynth?
Since it’s my civic duty to provide the musician community with the best info and personal opinion, I spend hours upon hours reviewing and testing various products.
There are quite a few synths out here available for use, but I am always on the lookout for something that provides a unique angle.
Absynth has a sound that I can’t quite get from anything else I’ve tried. There is something about the “texture” of the sounds that come out of it…they seem to sorta…float.
That’s not to say you can’t get some aggressive and harsh sounds out of it, but for me…it’s uniqueness is in the smooth, evolving, “floating” textures you can create.
There is a synthesis gumbo in the engine of Absynth. FM, subtractive, wave-table, granular, sampling, and sample morphing…not to mention all the filters and modulation in there.
Tons and tons of sounds.
Bottom line is, Absynth has a HUGE collection of sounds. And you can get anything from a sexy silk pad, to a harsh fm lead, to even flutes and guitars…yes…all with that Absynth layer of goodness I’ve grown to love.
There are, according to the website, 1800 sound in this beast!
Don’t worry, they are “Koresounds” so the browser is based on style, type, and characteristics just like Kore 2. That make it easy to find exactly what you want.
Don’t like presets? Make your own then!
With over 1700 sounds, I’m sure you’ll find something you love…but the great thing about Absynth 5, and probably the main reason I wanted to check it out…
The freaking mutator man!
This is the easiest sound design tool I’ve seen, EVER.
You can take a preset, adjust the mutation/random amount, and hit the button!
New sounds pop out like eggo waffles in the toaster.
And you can get as custom as you want. If you just want to mutate one oscillator, go for it, only want to mutate the oscillators but keep the fx? Go for it!
Very flexible and VERY EASY
This is a really amazing and inspiring synth
Like I said, I review tons of products, tons of instruments, but I’m always looking for those that offer something unique.
I haven’t come across a synth that sounds like absynth, harware or software wise.
It’s ready to go out of the box with the amazing collection of presets, but they make it super easy to sculpt your own sounds.
That’s a plus, I HATE synths that don’t make it easy to create sounds. I don’t want to have to go through tons of menus just to make changes.
Sure, Absynth has all the deep menus there for you sound scientists that like to go deep. But they don’t force you there, you can simply create tons and tons of patches right from the front panel, that I love.
The ambient combination of samples and synthesis in this plugin is straight up dope, period.
This is my first time ever playing with Absynth, and I see why it’s so popular, the textures it spits out are amazing.
You can get absynth directly from native instruments, or from any only retailer. It’s also part of komplete 6 (I think that’s the best deal)
so go on over to native-instruments.com and check it out, or hit up one of the vendors in the sidebar.
If you like different, ambient, evolving, organic sounding instruments….this is it.
lemme know what you think
leave me a comment below.
Thanks again for providing another “view” as usual. Between Absynth & Massive I don’t think I have enough hrs. in the day to even blink at Reaktor *lol*. I agree A5’s textures are etherial and the mutator…aaww-man, easy greasy! Now sprinkle that w/ a dash of arpeggiator and a dab of macro knob goodness..viola sonic sweet potato pie Mmm-mmm. For those of us w/ previous versions of Komplete or Kontakt the upgrade path to Komplete 6 may be worth the trip.
Side-Bar: BTW what did you think of Artillary 2, if you’ve had the chance to check it out? NI’s “The Finger” may have more fx for now, but something about it just ehh doesn’t put that twinkle in my eye especially the interface & the cpu hog it has the potential to be being that it needs to either run w/kore or reaktor, whereas Artillary 2 doesn’t. At least that just my take for the time being as I try to do more recon on the topic.
As always…peace & blessings to you & the family.
Hahahahaha! I thought I was a fanatic! Sonic sweet potatoe pie! HECK YEAH! lol. Artillary looks dope man, I haven’t played with it but what I saw it was pretty sexy.
I may have to check it out.
I haven’t touched Reaktor lol…I’m a lil scared of it hahahahaha…I like these others cuz it’s easy to just get in and make music. I don’t want to have to build stuff…not right now 🙂
But I know it’s prolly dope as well!
I was watching this video listening to some of the great sounds and was wondering what patches you were using. I figured if you watch in full screen + HD in the youtube player you can see everything crystal clear! That “Chordination” patch is dope!
hahahah lol, yeah man, I like that one too!
thanks for the heads up again just the reason i need to get the komplete 6 i was unsure if was worth the price but once again u convinced me iam on it thankshoie
Yo real talk, with the price where it is now, it’s a def must have. You can cop it from zzounds.com, I got them over in my sidebar. Man they got that joint for like 4 payments of 149, no credit app or nothing, just use ya own debit/credit lol.
best price i’ve seen.
But even the price alone is just crazy, it don’t even make sense to buy just one of them lol.
Yeah, this beast is the most amazing softsynth on this plane. Check out some of the brandnew sounds from my website, free of charge if you wish…
http://www.absynthsounds.com
http://absynthsounds.blogspot.com/
Cool man thanks for stopping by, nice site by the way!
I’ve stuck with Absynth 3, so I miss out on the newer streamlined editing, but like you said the sound of it is totally unique. It’s cool 4 and 5 are easier to edit, back 5 years ago people acted like it was Reaktor lite in terms of ease of editing.
Yeah lol..I didn’t have any experience with previous versions, so this one is pretty coo to me lol.
The sounds is amazing.
thanks for the sounds
no problem, thanks for downloading them bro!
Jamari – you say Now sprinkle that w/ a dash of arpeggiator and a dab of macro knob – Is there an arpeggiator in Ab5?
Cheers