(electronic tune) Let's go ahead and check out something a little bit different. (lighthearted music) I feel like Sinead O'Connor over here, it's amazing. Let's check out some of the vocal sounds. (ominous electronic sounds) oh wow, lots of really interesting stuff here. Let's just check out some, okay, so soundscapes, destructive, that sounds pretty cool. Lots of really interesting futuristic type stuff. And as you can see down below, I'm just holding down one key. Let's look at a couple of other soundscapes, 'cause there's a whole lot of cool stuff going on here. It's really interesting that this entire sound was made with no samples. You can start to hear where that seagull type sound is coming from. You can sort of start to see where the waves sound is coming from. (ocean sound effects) It's kind of incredible. It's kind of incredible, and if we look at these, as I hold down the key. These are all parameters that can be moving. This is where a lot of the stuff goes down, and you don't have to worry about this so much right now, but just look at how complex these different envelopes can be. We've got this thing called the pipe, which is quite cool. We've got frequency modulation, we've got ring modulation, then we've got good old subtractive synthesis, some filters, some effects over here. We can see we've got three different synthesis methods happening here. Let's just take a look at some of the stuff going on here. (ocean sound effects) Feels like a commercial for a certain south of the boarder adult beverage. It's called Absynth beach, and I'm going to go ahead and double click, and I'm just going to hold down a key for you, and let's all sail away. This isn't one I use all the time, but it's the first one I show people 'cause I think it's great. I'm going to show you my very favorite Absynth sound. Let's start out just by listening to some sounds. There are a lot of different cool things that we can do. Patch is where the heavy lifting goes down. Perform is where we set up a lot of our mini controllers, for example. We have our browser and our attributes as we've seen before, and then we have all these different sections. Now, in absence, our navigation is up top. It's sort of a power house, and there's a whole lot of cool stuff that you can do using this synthesizer, and I just want to take a look at some of the presets and just talk about navigating it a little bit because there's a lot here. It can actually work in surround sound if you need it to. You can do subtractive synthesis, frequency modulation, you can sample, you can stretch samples, you can create amazing, intense, spacial effects. It's great for soundscapes and things like that, but it's also great for really aggressive sounds. Things that are a little bit softer, like easy listening. Either that or they see the color and they hear the name and they're like, oh this must be great for ambient sounds. It's really a jack of all trades, and for that reason, a lot of people find it very intimidating. There is so much that we can do with Absynth. LFOs have also been applied, adding some movement to the sound source.- The next synth that I want to talk about is called Absynth, and it's a synthesizer, it's a sampler, it's an effects unit. It is then passed through a High Pass Filter, and then finally through a Multi-comb delay effect. This is passed through the Waveshape filter section that processes it through a sine wave. This preset uses 3 oscillators with different filter types on each oscillator. Here I've used the Absynth "Follow the Mailman” preset. You can add color to your audio tracks that may be difficult to match with other plugins. This opens up many processing opportunities from one plugin.Ībsynth's filters are top class and have an organic flavor to them. Any audio on this channel will now be passed through Absynth's oscillators, effects, envelopes and LFO's. ( Audio Unit > Native Instruments > Absynth FX > Stereo). I have added the Apple Drum Loop 'Hip Hop Riding Beat' to an audio channel, and then inserted Absynth as an insert plugin on the channel. It can be applied the same way in other DAWs. Here is how to use Abysnth as an audio effect in Logic. It allows you to use Absynth's brilliant oscillators, filters, effects and envelopes as manipulators for your audio files. This opens up a whole new bag of tricks for you to process your audio with. One thing you may not be aware of is that you can also use Absynth as an effects processor for your audio channels. With its oscillators, effects, envelopes and LFOs, one can create organic soundscapes through to complex pads with evolving timbres.
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