Using more than one sound simultaneously in Absynth 4

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Dear Anyone.

There isn't a Native Instruments section here (why?) so I'm posting my question here because I am a newbie! Right.

I've got Absynth 4. And a 16-voice sequencer. It's a notation package, one stave one sound, I put in all the notes with the mouse, prefer working that way. OK.

When I use Sampletank, I get 16 little windows. I can choose one sound for each little window in Sampletank and line up my sequencer's outputs for them, giving me 16 instruments to play with.

Now I want to be able to do that with Absynth 4. But I can't see how to do it. Yes, I've read the manual and I must be very stupid because I can't find where in the manual it tells you how to do it. How do you use more than one sound simultaneously in Absynthe 4 so, just as if I was using Sampletank, I can select up to 16 instruments, line my sequencer's staves up with them and have like a virtual orchestra of Absynth 4 sounds going on? So when I put a note onto a stave with the mouse, I get just the sound assigned to that stave playing the note, just like in Sampletank?

There's GOTTA be a way of doing it - a company the size of N.I. CAN'T be so dumbass as to imagine you'd only ever want to use one sound in Absynth at once!

I'm using a PC, 1gig RAM (am buying 2 more gig next month on payday!) my notation package is Quick Score Elite Level 2, my soundcard is an M-Audio Audiophile 2496.

Thanks in advance

Chrisulrich
 
Cant help you as I dont own it..and every company doesnt have a forum here for obvious reasons but NI has a very good message board of its own so you may be better off/quicker there??
 
You cannot do it with Absynth. It is not a multi timbral instrument.
 
Dear Tlennon (and whoever else reads this!)

The polite word for what I felt when I read your answer to my question is 'Damn!' Why on earth would a company release a box of wonderful sounds and then make it so you can only use them one at a time?

Right. Lateral thinking time here - hope you or someone else can help out! Is there anything I can import the Absynth sounds into that IS multi-timbral - lovely word, never heard of it before you used it - so I can import the sounds FROM Absynth INTO the new gadget and then use them multi-timbrally in my music? As it's N.I., can you import them somehow into Kontakt or any of their other ones?

Sorry to sound vague, I'm still trying to get my head around all the technicalities involved in writing a choon on a computer and, frankly, my brane not only hurts it's trying to crawl out my ear and escape!

Yours harmoniously

Chris
 
I use Logic and Reaper. In both those applictions I can load multiple instances of Absynth, loading each into its own track and assigning each its own voice. The biggest number I've loaded at once is four; I generally use Absynth in conjunction with an external multi-timbral module. Theoretically I could use more, but there will be a point at which it demands too much of the CPU.

If you are creating scores, then Logic is a better option than Reaper, because the latter doesn't have that functionality. However, from both Logic and Reaper you can export the midi files and load them in your scoring application (bearing in mind that the sounds you use in Logic or Reaper may not be recreatable in the scoring program).
 
Thanks, Gecko!

Dear Gecko.

Thanks! That sounds a great way of doing things. Honestly, though, you'd've thought a company like N.I. would be including multi-timbrality (can you say that!?!) as standard in its instruments considering (a) it's possible because everyone else is doing it and (b) because NOT having it must surely be annoying to the point of people NOT buying Absynth and choosing something else that might have inferior sounds, but at least you can easily use more than one of them simultaneously.

Besides, it can't be THAT hard to do - I bet there's shell players with multitimbrality out there if you looked hard enough!

Yours respectfully

Chrisulrich
 
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