Message from Absynth developer Brian Clevinger

[Ben Jenssen]

It seems that Absynth is gone.
It's gone from the NI website.
(Thanks to Ed A. at Gearspace for the video link.)

https://youtu.be/1I9Yph08MIU

[Eric Lambert]

Sad news. It's been feeling long in the tooth, but still a great product. 22 years is an amazingly long life for software. I do hope they bring it up to Apple Silicon before abandoning it.

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

Sad news. It's been feeling long in the tooth, but still a great product. 22 years is an amazingly long life for software.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

I do hope they bring it up to Apple Silicon before abandoning it.

Like I said; it's completely gone from web site and Native Access. It's their property. I agree with people on GS saying they should simply give it back to Clevinger, and he would take care of it.

[Sugarnutz]

I have Steven Slate Drums EX 3.5 and an East/West Bosendorfer 290 from many moons ago that was originally installed via Service Center and both are currently installed and authorized via Native Access 2 as recently as two weeks ago, both run under Kontakt (fresh install of MacOS Monterey 12.5.1 on a a mid-2015 rMBP along with Pro Tools Ultimate 2022.7). Maybe Absynth will endure the same fate as long as the OS and PC architecture support it.

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Sugarnutz

I have Steven Slate Drums EX 3.5 and an East/West Bosendorfer 290 from many moons ago that was originally installed via Service Center and both are currently installed and authorized via Native Access 2 as recently as two weeks ago, both run under Kontakt (fresh install of MacOS Monterey 12.5.1 on a a mid-2015 rMBP along with Pro Tools Ultimate 2022.7). Maybe Absynth will endure the same fate as long as the OS and PC architecture support it.

I have used Absynth on and off since the beginning. The last few years, retired and not creating much, I have had the 30 min functioning trial, and have used it occationally just to print sounds to a track before the 30 mins were up.

Yesterday when I tried it, it would show up without any presets, and it worked, but only with a sinus tone. I have two theories why this happened; 1-I recently installed Native Access to update a few kontakt libs, and Absynth is simply absent from NA. 2-My first theory; that my changing the location of files and the name of startup disk. I don't know. And it seems I didn't store the trial installer.

I'll miss Absynth. It was pretty unique.

[smurfyou]

They were still selling Absynth as part of the Komplete Classics bundle a week ago. I don't think even NI could drop support that quick. Although they are related to iZotope now...

Absynth is still great. It's a shame.