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Dawesome Abyss II Black Friday pricing from Tracktion takes 40% off this synth plugin, which comes to $89.40 until Nov 6, 2026.
Abyss II is a synth built around the idea that we describe sound with the same words we use for colour and texture. Warm, cold, dark, silky, lush. The maker says that is how the brain actually processes sound.
So instead of operators, algorithms and number-heavy menus, you pick sound-colours and place them on a gradient.
The maker pitches it as a synth for musicians rather than engineers. You mix colours the way you would mix paint, and keep playing instead of decoding abstract formulas.
The suggested workflow is simple: combine sound-colours on the gradient and ask whether the result sounds interesting to you.
You can also feed it your own material. The maker mentions a phone recording of a distant crane, a vocal snippet or a guitar being plugged in.
Custom Palettes let you convert single audio files or entire folders into palettes of tonal colour.
Abyss II adds undo/redo and a mono-synth mode. The preset browser has tags and favourites, and expansion packs are supported.
The LFO and ADSR editing area is larger, ADSRs can be modulated, and there is a slow mode for ADSRs. A randomizer and a high contrast mode for accessibility are in there too.
If you own Abyss 1, you can drag and drop or batch-transfer your V1 presets into Abyss II. The maker also offers a separate upgrade for Abyss v1 owners.
Professional musicians and sound designers who tried it gave quotes like "Instant cinematic", "Hard to make it sound cheap" and "A very natural synth".
Yes. The Dawesome Abyss II Black Friday deal takes 40% off Tracktion's synth plugin, bringing it to $89.40. The offer runs until Nov 6, 2026.
It ships with 400+ presets: over 200 new patches and 200 upgraded classics from Abyss 1. You also get a modular FX engine with 4 slots and 20 effect modules, a poly-rhythmic sequencer, and custom palettes.
Yes. With Sample-to-Colour Extraction, you can pull the spectral character of a recording by placing it on the gradient. Custom Palettes go further: point them at a single audio file or an entire folder and they build a palette of timbres from it, which means a field recording, a vocal clip or a guitar take can become raw material for the synth.
Yes. V1 preset import works by drag and drop or batch transfer. The maker also lists a separate upgrade for owners of Abyss v1, and Abyss II includes 200 upgraded classics from the first version.
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