Tracktion Abyss – Visual Virtual Synthesizer (VST/AU) Tracktion

Abyss is a visual synthesiser with character and a bit of fairy dust. It brings to you dark, vibrating drones, vivid cinematic pads and rich evolving textures. With Abyss you find instant inspiration for your music and sound design projects.

Features:

• Amazing, intuitive new FM capabilities. Makes dialling in FM sounds as simple as using a filter.
• Twice as many factory presets.
• A touchscreen mode has been added for rapid, tactile sound design.
• A super-useful LEVEL slider has been added to the LFOs, allowing for the modulation of the modulation depth.
• Panic button and several other improvements based on user feedback.
• Unique and inspiring workflow based on sound colours.
• More than 2000 sound colours as building blocks for patches.
• Unique sound surfing for selecting sound colours.
• Each sound colour can be modified with spectral processing.
• Noise parameter adds musical noise – specifically based on and tuned to the selected sound colour.
• Virtual analog filter with resonance.
• Four sound effects: Shimmer, Delay, Reverb and Phaser.
• Optional brick wall limiter.
• Arbitrary modulation with 13 sources and 23 destinations.
• 2 ADSRs, 3 LFOs.
• LFO supports free drawing of curve.
• Two of the LFOs can be used as step sequencer.
• Unique “stereo” modifier that allows to skew most parameters differently for left and right channel.
• Modulation parameters can be modulated themselves (eg LFO-speed).
• Easy pitch snap function to stay within scale.
• MPE support.
• Scalable, responsive UI.
• More than 130 carefully crafted patches.

NUANCED INSTRUMENTS
The tone colour approach provides a simple way to create complex sounds. This is paired with a modulation system that is as powerful as it is simple to use. Tweak, mangle, modulate your sound to sonic madness or create sensible, nuanced MPE instruments.

TONE COLOURS
Whether we describe sounds or colours – we use similar words like warm, cold, dark, soft or energetic. Not by coincidence it is called tone-colour. In Abyss different sounds are represented by different colours – a whole new way to design sounds.

RICH AND DEEP SOUND
The sound engine of Abyss combines the rich and deep textures of natural sounds with the effective flexibility of classical synths. Of course there is a virtual analogue filter, but there are also controls to shape tone colours in unheard ways. Explore fresh sonic possibilities.

SURF YOUR SOUND
Navigating through endless lists of weirdly named sounds is not always fun. In Abyss you can simply surf through a panel with more than 2000 tone-colours. Find your sound faster than ever.

FM: NEW in v1.2
To further enrich its sonic potential, v1.2 brings a whole world of FM timbres to Abyss! Using FM in Abyss is as simple as using a filter. With just three sliders you can set the level and the tonal character of the frequency modulation.

TONE COLOUR GRADIENT
Its variation that makes sounds interesting. By placing tone-colours on the gradient you create a palette of timbral variation that becomes the base of your patch. Whether you mainly used presets or you are a seasoned sound designer, with Abyss you simply follow your intuition to create your own signature sound.