Synthesizer

Hello to everobody,

Please forgive my questions, since I am quite a beginner regarding software synths and such. I have some questions regarding the matter.

1. If I understand correctly, I can connect a midi keyboard to PC running Absynth and have a fully functional synth?

2. What is the quality of sounds? Is it like Korg Triton series or lower?

3. Can I load/find on internet different sounds, load them in Absynth and play it via piano keyboard? What is the quality of samples? Does saxophone really sounds like one? or it sounds like saxophone (sax is just an example)?

Thank you in advance for your time and patience in answering my silly questions.

If it is so really good, I would gladly purchase it.

 

:> 1. If I understand correctly, I can connect a midi keyboard to
:> PC running Absynth and have a fully functional synth?

Provided you have a MIDI interface, yes.

:> 2. What is the quality of sounds? Is it like Korg Triton series or lower?

The sound quality is amazing. However, you can NOT compare it to a Triton. It's a totally different sound generating process and NOT based on stored samples like the Triton. ABSynth uses a combination of Subtractive and FM synthesis, along with some very unique filtering and effects processes to build up a sound. The Triton sound is based on samples.

ABSynth is capable of 'Bread and Butter' type sounds, but that isn't the strength of ABSynth. If you're looking for wildly inventive sounds and an amazing sound creation process, ABSynth is for you. If you're looking for something with great Acoustic Piano, Rhodes and other sample based imitative patches, you may not be too happy here.

:> 3. Can I load/find on internet different sounds, load them in
:> Absynth and play it via piano keyboard?

The Yahoo User group maintains an archive of sounds on the net.

:> What is the quality of samples?

See above. No samples.