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I'm stoked!!

yeah i just got absynth two days ago. its pads make me think of how beautiful life really is. i was in complete euphoria.

if you don't have Absynth 3.. get it!

Front Line Assault wrote:yeah i just got absynth two days ago. its pads make me think of how beautiful life really is. i was in complete euphoria.

if you don't have Absynth 3.. get it!

Absynth 2 has been my main instrument for donkeys years now (ok, not quite years.. just over a year) and it'll be great to get rid of the edit windows and have it all in one. Pretty stoked about the unison feature too.

I uploaded a bank to the user library the other day - Acolmiztli's Whore In Church bank. Go check it out

Is 3 easier to program than 2? I don't have a clue what I'm doing when tweaking settings in Absynth2 but I still have fun and get good sounds out of it. Still I'd rather spend money on a set of portable keys.

what are the main advantages over 2?? Does it actually sound better, or is it just a matter of adding a few extra features / new gui?

What do you mean "does it sound better" ??? I wasn't aware there were problems with the way it sounded!

If you mean does it make "trancelead number 4" or "that Ferry Corsten sound" then yes, its quite capable of doing that. Even more so with the unison feature introduced into Absynth 3.

If you mean does it provide me with more tools to make my own patches? Yes, of course it does.

If you mean does it go "whackykahaaakkakkoooo....eeeee" ... then yes, I imagine with practice it can do that.

I did a patch yesterday that sounds like a life support machine.

yeah I dont mind the way it sounds already, im a fan of Absynth 2, things can always get better though softsynths are getting better and better all the time.

as fair as I'm concerned the main new feature is AUDIO IN!!! (an be used as an effect)

I would've prefer a new oscillator that acted as an audio in... but oh well...

my main concern is the gui. There's only one window open when editing now, and the envelopes are easier to program. And the unison will definitely have done a lot for the sound, as will free-running oscillators.

I can't wait to play. Wish Digital Village would knock on my door this morning, business as usual. Although that wont be the case.

Just got my copy yesterday, brilliant plug in now that it's all in one window. trippy background now too, though I miss the Giger inspired patch window. the new version looks too clean to me Anyway, off to play with the green devil....

I probably wont see mine until after New Year.

I picked up my Abs3 update today. When I loaded it up in Live I
noticed that it let you route audio to it from other tracks. Then I
read on the NI site that you can use it to process audio in. So I set
up some routing in Live, directing audio from the Darbuka VST into
Absynth. I have to say the results were astounding. I was just playing
around but what came out was amazing! In addition to the Audio In from
Darbuka I set one oscillator to sample and used a flute loop I had. I
also routed unprocessed Darbuka audio to another audio track. The
result is that whenever I press my Midi controller Absynth kicks in
with this delay processing and flute sound, when I let go it melts
away into the unprocessed audio. The sound processing possibilities of
this boggles my mind.

thanks for the tidbit Joe sounds fantastic, i can't wait to get my hands on this combination. anybody else using absynth in interesting ways, would love to hear about it