The synthesizer plugin quickly became one of the most important products Native Instruments had in its portfolio. From then on, Absynth was distributed by Native Instruments and Brian remained the chief developer.įour more versions followed in the next years, each with new features and more and more new possibilities. A time when NI was managed by the founder Stephan Schmitt. In 2001 Brian Clevinger joined forces with Native Instruments. This made extremely complex sounds possible.

Unique at the time was the ability to split the synthesis into three channels, giving each channel a different sound.

Plus, 14 different filter types, ring modulation, FM, and tons of modulation. To date, the engine is based on a mix of classic (subtractive) and modern syntheses such as FM, granular, or sampling. At that time it was one of the most innovative Synthesizer plugins because its 3-channel sound engine combined new ideas that have not been seen in such a form. In 2000, American developer Brian Clevinger released Absynth as a download on his own website. That’s the official death of the innovative Absynth 5 Synthesizer plugin. Just disappeared from the official store as well as from the Classics bundle that was available from Plugin Boutique. This happened without prior notice or an official statement. If you take a closer look, you can see that Native Instruments has kicked Absynth 5 out of its KOMPLETE portfolio. More precisely, no updates for Absynth 5, FM8, etc. It is immediately noticeable that there are no updates for classics again. Today Native Instruments announced the KOMPLETE 14 bundle with Kontakt 7 and lots of new sound content. NI has published a statement, you can find it in the article. With the release of KOMPLETE 14, Native Instruments dropped Brian Clevinger’s innovative Synthesizer plugin Absynth from its portfolio without an update.

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