Atmosphere versus Absynth

Is anyone familiar enough with these two (Absynth 4, by the way) to do a comparison. I already own Atmosphere, and am considering Abby for additional textural sounds (recognizing that I could tweak Atmosphere all day long!).

Thanks a lot,

How weird - I just posted the same question on the Rapture v. Absynth thread.

ORIGINAL: syrath


Atmosphere doesnt have patchs of its own , per se, its a rompler (quite highly configurable by the looks of it). Absynth is a true synth in that it generates the sound the way a synth would. 2 different ways of doing things. Absynth is infinitely more customisable than Atmosphere, but to roll your own sounds you need to have a bit of techno knowledge. Atmosphere works quicker out of the tin and has some limits set upon it (like it needs space to hold all those loops)

True on both counts: Atmo is a bit of rompler and Abs is more of a true synth. However, you can do a lot with Atmo, each sound combines up to two "romples" (is that a word??) and you can tweak envelopes etc. Plus, many of the romples (it is a word now!!) in Atmo are made of several synths. Abs can be pretty deep, but like a lot of synths, you can also start with tweaking and it comes with a lot of patches, plus access to many more on the NI website (in the user's group.)

Take care

Atmosphere is very, very different from RMX, which I also own (as well as Triology--can you tell I like Spectrasonic synths!!) Atmo is much more like a Rompler with the ability to combine two of the romples, change some filter, amp envelope settings etc.

That's too bad.... I always thought that was a highly underated romp-a-sizer. It, like Atmosphere, had an amazing number of samples. You could combine two of them together into one sound, and had about as much sound editing power as Atmosphere. The sounds (IMHO) were a bit more varied and brighter. Plus, they were broken down by synthesis type (for example there would be FM and under that would be a folder of leads, pads, drones, etc. etc.) I don't think it ever competed well with Atmosphere, although I thought it could do as much.

I looked on their website and I think "Synths Anthology" may be version two of Ultrafocus. Drop them an e-mail. If they have a demo, try it out. You may be surprised.

Take care