Tracktion Abyss

A Visual Synthesizer

Abyss is a visual synthesizer 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.

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 Colors

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

Rich & 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 analog 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-colors. Find your sound faster than ever.

Tone Colour Gradient

It's variation that makes sounds interesting. By placing tone-colors 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.

Features

• 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.

System Requirements

• MacOS 10.11 El Capitan and later
• Windows 10 (64-bit only)

Plugin Formats

AU and VST3 only