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Posted by kitphillips on Sep-08-2010 12:26:

Absynth Weirdness (please help)

Hey guys,

Wondering if anyone here has absynth 4 and is experiencing something strange.

When I load the preset "cold corners" I can't seem to instantiate a low pass filter without losing the sound from the oscillators?? Can anyone just load the preset and see if they can change the main filter to a lowpass in the patch view for me?

I've been fiddling with it for two weeks on and off and can't make it work, I think I'm doing something wrong, but even when I try to load a filter on the oscillator's individual channel rather than the master, I get the same thing, losing audio from that channel completely. This only happens with lowpass filters for some reason, not bandpass filters or anything else.

HALP?!


Posted by cryophonik on Sep-08-2010 13:36:

Yeah, same problem here. But, if I select LPF-6 or LPF-12, I get a very faint sound. That is weird. It doesn't look like any of the modulators are assigned to any filter parameters, and even when I open the LPFs all the way, I still don't hear any sound.


Posted by kitphillips on Sep-08-2010 14:37:

What a pain. This is really holding up my ability to finish a really promising project.

Good to hear its not just something wrong with my absynth though. Do you have any thoughts on why it might be cryo? I've only just started really delving into absynth so I'm not that great at it yet...

I guess if worst comes to worst I can always rebuild the patch. I just really liked the tone they had coming out of the osc bank


Posted by tehlord on Sep-08-2010 14:39:

I'll have a look when I get home, but can't you disable the filter for now and use a 3rd party filter on the sound?


Posted by cryophonik on Sep-08-2010 15:23:

quote:
Originally posted by kitphillips

Do you have any thoughts on why it might be cryo?


No, unfortunately, I just looked at it briefly before leaving for work this morning, but I can take a closer look when I get home this evening. In the meantime, it's very easy to disengage the filter, so tehlord's advice should work fine, provided you're not needing velocity modulation of the cutoff/resonance, keyfollowing, etc.


Posted by kitphillips on Sep-08-2010 15:34:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
No, unfortunately, I just looked at it briefly before leaving for work this morning, but I can take a closer look when I get home this evening. In the meantime, it's very easy to disengage the filter, so tehlord's advice should work fine, provided you're not needing velocity modulation of the cutoff/resonance, keyfollowing, etc.


quote:
Originally posted by tehlord
I'll have a look when I get home, but can't you disable the filter for now and use a 3rd party filter on the sound?


In response to both of these posts: yeah, I've thought of it, but I'm keen to map an envelope (triggered by the note press) to the filter... I know I could use an envelope triggered by the amplitude instead using ableton's auto filter or similar, but its a bit less than ideal really.

I'm just wondering what's causing the issue tbh, it really annoys me when I can't track down a glitch in a patch

Thanks very much for your help though, I'd really appreciate it if you could both take a look for me and see what you think


Posted by tehlord on Sep-08-2010 16:25:

Same deal for me, and Absynth baffles me at the best of times so my input is now officially over


Posted by kitphillips on Sep-15-2010 09:03:

Bumpy....


Anyone able to help out here and give some opinion on why abysnth is behaving like this?

If not I guess I'll take it to the NI forums...


Posted by tehlord on Sep-15-2010 09:07:

quote:
Originally posted by kitphillips
Bumpy....


Anyone able to help out here and give some opinion on why abysnth is behaving like this?

If not I guess I'll take it to the NI forums...


If you have a KVR account there's a bloke there called 'ew' who is unofficially the NI guru.


Posted by kitphillips on Sep-17-2010 16:49:

Cheers... I believe he's on the NI forums too so that'll save me making a new account.

Just wondering mainly whether its a bug or something that I'm overlooking. I hate it when I know that theres something critical I've missed


Posted by LoWahn on Sep-18-2010 17:46:

Hmm, are you keeping the Notch master on there or adding another?

I was able to do this without any issues; responded to frequency adjustments fine as well. You using Absynth 5, updated and all that jazz?

Edit: Oops. Saw that you're on 4. It seems to be rectified on 5. Sorry

Edit again: Hmmm... it was working just fine, but audio actually cut out during a playback and then stopped working. Had to switch to another patch and back to get it back on (removing the LP didn't fix the issue). More NI oddness (not sure about other people but I'm always having oddness with Battery and Kontact too).


Posted by ijozef on Sep-18-2010 18:11:

bypass or change the envelope settings of the master filter!
it's assigned to CC1 (named hpass)


Posted by kitphillips on Sep-20-2010 02:07:

Thats very weird....

@lowahn The thing with mine happens when I swap the notch on the master for an LP of any kind.

BUT! Individual channels also cut out when I add a filter there too... Which makes me think maybe its not a bug but some strange thing that I'm missing.

I'll try what ijozef says and look at the envelope as soon as my computer stops being ghey later today... Will report back anyway.



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