Gloomy. Bright. Organic. Rich. Inspiring. Fast. Visual. Mystical. Modulating. visual synthesizer. Abyss is a visual synth with character and some fairy dust. It features dark vibrating drones, vibrant cinematic pads, and rich evolving textures. With Abyss you will instantly find inspiration for your music and sound projects!
Instruments with nuances – The color approach provides an easy way to create complex sounds. This is combined with a powerful and easy to use modulation system. Tune, distort, modulate your sound to a sonic frenzy or create familiar tools
Tone Colors – Whether we’re describing sounds or colors – we use the same words like warm, cold, dark, soft or energetic. It is no coincidence that we call tone-color with the same words. In Abyss different sounds are represented by different colors – it’s a whole new way to create sounds.
Rich and Deep Sound – The Abyss sound engine combines the rich and deep textures of natural sounds with the efficient flexibility of classic synths. Of course, there is a virtual analog filter, but there are also controls to shape the tone colors in unheard of ways. Discover new sound possibilities!
Sound Surfing – Scrolling through endless lists of weirdly named sounds isn’t always fun. In Abyss, you can simply navigate through the panel with over 2000 color shades. Find your sound faster than ever.
Variation that makes sounds interesting – By placing color tones on a gradient, you create a palette of timbre variations that becomes the basis of your patch. Whether you mainly use presets or are an experienced sound engineer, with Abyss you simply follow your intuition to create your own signature sound.
FULL SPECS
• Unique and inspiring workflow based on sound colours.
• More than 2000 sound colors as building blocks for patches.
• Unique “sound surfing” for selecting sound colors.
• Each sound color can be modified with spectral processing.
• Noise parameter adds “musical noise” – specifically based on and tuned to the selected sound color.
• 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 a 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.
Abyss Change Log
Abyss 1.2.5
• Switch to Juce 6.1.4
• Added accessibility info for standard UI elements
• removed keyboard shortcuts “<“, “>” and “m” as these interfered in hosts like reaper
Abyss 1.2.4
• Fix : on a few patches there was strange attack noise when level was at very low values
• Added special setting “ui_scale_factor” that can be sert between 0.5 and 2.0 to specify a different default size of the plugin when opening.
To activate: open ~/Library/Application Support/Dawesome/Abyss/ABYSS.settings (on Mac)
resp. “C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Dawesome\ABYSS\ABYSS.settings” (on Win)
in a text editor and add linewithin the Properties section with a scale factor of your choice.
• NOTE: this will be used always when a new instance is initiated. To see changes applied remove plugin from host and reload, or reload your project in host
• NOTE: the ABYSS.settings file does appear only after you opened Abyss at least once after the first installation
Abyss 1.2.3
• FIX: FL Studios randomize functions randomizes the bypass, putting the plugin into bypass mode
Abyss 1.2.2
• FIX: there sometimes was a slight “blip” sound when using a hard attack and modulating filter cutoff
Abyss 1.2.1
• added setting to “disable_opengl” is Abyss.settings file
• FIX: pitch of timbres was not correctly restored when reloading a patch
• FIX: crash of VST3 in StudioOne (latest Versiopn) on Mac Mojave
Abyss 1.2 “FM”
• Free Artist Patch Pack from Audilepsy (70+ patches)
• Free Patch Expansion Pack (80+ patches)
• Free Patches from Databroth (30 patches ) -> there will be a commercial Patch pack released soon
• added FM (Frequency Modulation) capabilities
• added LEVEL to the LFOs -> allows modulation of the modulation-depth
Abyss 1.1.4
• added panic button
• added “TOUCHSCREEN” option – > all LFOs will be displayed in editable mode always
• Fix: SHIFT clicking a slider on some windows made the mouse jump to a different position
• Fix: sliders behave correctly when Abyss is bypassed by DAW
• Fix: LFOs with POLY = off and UNI = on no longer had an offset.
CAUTION: if stored patches relied on this faulty behavior they will now sound different!
• added a CHANGELOG.txt file
• The caret symbol for patch selection is extended and easier to hit now
where is the license or the authenicator?