all right today i'm going to do a quick overview of the Tracktion Abyss instrument and i think
it's also called the dawsome abyss and this is a visual synthesizer that's capable of making some
huge creative sounds that i think would be great in cinematic situations or
maybe edm and pretty much anything i'm Zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal
to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creative beast now i've included a link to
the tracktion abyss down in the description it's not an affiliate link or anything like that
just a regular link so you can hop over there get any other information that you
might want on this synthesizer and at the time of recording this i think it's 129
but there is a 90-day free trial that you can get and it's available on mac and windows now
i just want to jump right in give this thing a listen and then we'll go over some of the
user interface and other details let's do some more sound tests a little later on
so as you just heard the tracktion abyss synth is capable of creating some
big dramatic creative sounds which is why i think it'd be great for cinematic uses but you could
also use this in electronic styles and even rock styles just i could picture with some of these you
put a distortion on there and you could probably come up with some nine inch nails types of sounds
in there all right so now let's look at the user interface and as you can see it has this sort of
aquatic theme going on and one of the main visuals is the effects section down here so there's four
effects you have a shimmer reverb which is the first one then you have a delay then there's
another reverb right here and then this one at the end is a phaser effect and each of these
has some presets in there so you can change those up and then you can also adjust things manually if
you really wanted to here so that's the effects section and they're pretty cool let's just kind
of play with those a bit i'm going to change this to deep water all right let's listen to how this
sounds
so those are some interesting effects on there and now let's look at where the real
cool stuff is and that's in this edit view here and you can see you have these colors
and there's colors up here so the way this synth is designed is to really hear the colors
so to hear them you just sort of click with your mouse and drag through here so let's try that out
all right so if you hear a color that you like you can just
let go of your mouse on that one and you can see the color shows up here and you can drag that
wherever you want in this line here
and we can make it all green if we really want but this is
a gradient so you can see we can have other colors in there so you could
do the same thing click and drag and now we have some more colors in here
so let's listen to what it sounds like right now
and one of the things you might notice is there's some lines in here moving and the position is
moving so if you adjust this position it adjusts where on this bar it's getting the sound from but
we can automate this by adding an lfo over here so if we click on this lfo and there's some different
presets that we could choose from in here let's just go with that we can increase the rate a
little bit make it smooth and then adjust this down here and we'll see how that affects the sound
and you can see you could add several of these so it can create some really really interesting
sounds now you also have other things in here that you can automate as well you
say we want to do something with the pitch we can click on pitch
and then we can use our lfo over here to adjust the pitch so let's do that now
that's pretty interesting right there but another thing you can do here is say you don't like any
of these preset shapes in here you can just click and start creating your own shapes in
there if you really want so this thing is very very customizable and you can do that with all
of these lfo shapes here and there's so much more you can do you can also use the mod wheel on your
midi keyboard to affect these as well so you would just click there and then you could click on the
mod wheel and set it up that way if you wanted to use that and with all of these you can adjust all
of these if you want to so that's just a quick look at the colors here and this color gradient
and like i said you can add as many colors in here as you really want to and you can have the
positions of all of these doing all kinds of wacky things if you really wanted to but if you're not
really comfortable with digging in and creating the sounds on your own they've included a lot of
presets so if we click on here we can see there's a bunch of different categories for the presets
and you can just go in here we'll choose one rack and we'll hear how that sounds
so there's one let's just give some of these presets a list and we'll
listen to a few of them here
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm Zane keep creating and we'll talk soon