Dawesome Abyss II Upgrade from v1 Black Friday Deal 2026: $45, 40% off

The Dawesome Abyss II Upgrade from v1 Black Friday deal takes 40% off Tracktion's synth plugin upgrade, bringing it to $45 until Nov 6, 2026. It is for owners of Abyss v1 only.

Abyss II is a synth built around the idea that sound is colour. Tracktion says the words we use for colours and textures are the same ones we use for sound, so the instrument works with tone-colours instead of numbers, algorithms and operators.

The maker's pitch is that you pick sound-colours, place them on a gradient and ask whether the result sounds interesting to you. No formulas to get right.

What does the Abyss II upgrade include?

This is the upgrade version of the Abyss II synth plugin, priced for people who already own v1. The maker lists these features:

• A sound engine designed around the way people perceive sound
• Over 400 presets, made up of more than 200 brand new patches plus 200 revamped favourites from the first Abyss
• Sample-to-Colour Extraction: place samples on the gradient and it analyses their spectra to produce tonal colours
• Custom Palettes: convert single audio files or entire folders into palettes of tonal colours
• Modular FX Engine: 4 open slots and a choice of 20 effect modules
• Poly-Rhythmic Sequencer where each lane can have its own number of steps

How does Abyss II shape sound?

Three controls handle the tone-shaping: BRUTE, VELVET and SYNTIFY. Tracktion describes them as novel controls for tone-shaping, warmth and aggressiveness.

You can feed the synth almost any source. The maker mentions a crane call recorded on a phone, a vocal snippet, or a guitar plugged straight in.

Wave Drag-Out lets you drag the rendered audio of your played notes into your DAW, or back into Abyss II. The plugin is light on CPU and has full MPE support.

What else is new in Abyss II?

Beyond the headline features, the list of additions is long:

• Undo and redo
• Mono-synth mode
• Preset browser with tags and favourites
• Expansion packs
• Larger area for LFO and ADSR editing
• ADSRs that can be modulated, plus a slow mode for ADSRs
• Randomizer
• High contrast mode for accessibility

Your old patches come along. V1 preset import works by drag and drop or as a batch transfer, so your Abyss 1 library carries into the new version.

Tracktion says professional musicians and sound designers tested Abyss II before release. Quotes it shares include "Instant cinematic", "Hard to make it sound cheap" and "A very natural synth". Those are the testers' words as reported by the maker.