Music producers and sound designers looking for inspiration will be thrilled with the tracktion Abyss, a visual synthesizer that's filled with character and a bit of fairy dust. Dive in and discover dark, vibrating drones, vivid cinematic pads, and rich evolving textures. Find instant inspiration for your music and sound design projects.
The innovative synthesis engine represents timbres with color, providing you unprecedented intuitive access to design your own signature sound with ease. A powerful modulation system makes it easier than ever to make any patch nuanced and expressive. Abyss is MPE compatible and works with any MPE controller such as the ROLI Seaboard.
What's New in V1.2
- Amazing, intuitive new FM capabilities. Makes dialing in FM sounds as simple as using a filter.
- Twice as many factory presets.
- A touchscreen mode has been added for rapid, tactile sound design.
- A super-useful LEVEL slider has been added to the LFOs, allowing for the modulation of the modulation depth.
- Panic button and several other improvements based on user feedback.
At a Glance
- Unique and inspiring workflow based on sound colors.
- 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 brickwall 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 you 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.
Nuanced Instruments
The tone-color 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, and modulate your sound to sonic madness, or create sensible, nuanced MPE instruments.
Tone Colors
Whether we describe sounds or colors, we use similar words like warm, cold, dark, soft, or energetic. Not by coincidence is it called tone color. In Abyss different sounds are represented by different colors—a whole new way to design sounds.
Rich and 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 colors 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.
FM
To further enrich its sonic potential, v1.2 brings a whole world of FM timbres to Abyss. Using FM in Abyss is as simple as using a filter. With just three sliders you can set the level and the tonal character of the frequency modulation.
Tone-Color Gradient
Its 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 use presets or are a seasoned sound designer, with Abyss, you can simply follow your intuition to create your own signature sound.