- Product: Absynth 6.1
- Developer: Native Instruments
- Type: Semi-Modular Synthesizer Plugin
- Version: 6.2.0
- Format: Standalone, VST3, AU
- Requirements: Windows 10 or later, macOS 14.0 or later
Absynth 6 marks the return of a legendary semi-modular synthesizer. Built for textures that transform and breathe, it invites you to shape sounds that are entirely your own. Deep enough for complex sound design, and intuitive enough for newcomers, it opens up distinctive, living sounds for cinematic cues, ambient soundscapes, and electronic productions. Learn more.
Absynth v6.2.0 Release Notes:
- ADDED Focus Mode: click a channel header to focus that channel and open an expanded editor below it
- ADDED Wave, Envelope, LFO, Macro, and Keyboard Editors in Focus Mode, selected from the Sidebar
- ADDED Editor Lock: prevents interactions in the channel strip from updating the editor
- ADDED Patch Focus: takes you from an item in an editor to its destination in the patch, in the Used By, Envelope, Macro, and Expression lists
- ADDED Channel headers with Solo, Mutate, and an Edit menu
- ADDED Channel Edit menu with Copy Channel, Paste Channel, Mutate Channel, Retry Mutate, Load Subpreset, and Save Subpreset
- ADDED Subpresets for channels, source modules, insert modules, effects, waveforms, and envelopes
- ADDED Load Subpreset dialog with Factory and User libraries, search, favorites, folders, Rescan, and Show on desktop. Selecting a subpreset loads it for auditioning; Cancel restores the previous settings
- ADDED Load Subpreset and Save Subpreset to the Edit menus of source modules, insert modules, and the effect module, and to the Transform menus of the Wave and Envelope Editors
- ADDED Embedded graphical previews for wave and envelope subpresets
- ADDED Global channel header, for entering Focus Mode on the Global channel
- ADDED Footer with macro knobs and an on-screen keyboard on all pages. In Focus Mode, its controls are integrated into the Macro Editor and the Keyboard Editor
- ADDED Poly AT / Mono AT, Pitch Bend, Mod Wheel, and Hold controls to the footer
- ADDED On-screen keyboard with octave buttons and a velocity and pressure display
- ADDED Computer keyboard input for the on-screen keyboard
- ADDED Keyboard Editor with Note Scale displayed directly above the keys, and a value display while drawing
- ADDED Assign button with single and multi assign modes, and an Assign menu listing all available parameters
- ADDED Assign mode indicators for available, assigned, and unavailable parameters. Clicking an assigned parameter reassigns it to the selected source
- ADDED MPE indicator on macro knobs and next to macro names in the macro lists
- ADDED Target Focus view in the LFO Editor, showing where a target is assigned across modules
- ADDED Envelope list states for envelope on/off and target module active/inactive
- ADDED Follow / Trigger switch for the Audio Modulators
- IMPROVED Macros can be reordered by drag and drop, with undo and redo
- IMPROVED Macros can be renamed by double-clicking their name in the footer
- IMPROVED Macro knobs show their value on hover; macros without assignments are drawn dimmed
- IMPROVED Assignment lists support multi-select, bulk remove, and moving assignments to another macro while keeping Depth, Invert, and Smooth
- IMPROVED The Assign page gains the same list editing as the Macro Editor; the Add button is renamed Assign
- IMPROVED The Edit and Transform menus of the Wave and Envelope pages are merged into a single Transform menu
- IMPROVED Copy Channel and Paste Channel moved from the source module Edit menu to the channel Edit menu
- IMPROVED Solo now highlights consistently on all channels
- IMPROVED Legacy Absynth template files can be loaded as subpresets
- IMPROVED Renamed: Main channel to Global channel, Macro Control X to Macro X, Templates to Subpresets