Traction and Dawesome have introduced MYTH, a new software synthesizer for MacOS & Windows.
MYTH is based on machine learning powered resynthesis. Drag and drop an audio file, and it will be resynthesized and ready to tweak.
From there, you shape the sound with standard synthesis tools, including LFOs, envelopes and filters. It’s modular, so you can rearrange modules to meet your needs. And it offers patch randomization that lets you ‘freeze’ sections, so you can rapidly create variations on a sound.
Features:
- Advanced organic re-synthesis based on machine learning.
- More than 700+ presets.
- Intuitive modular system.
- Trainable resonators (by dropping a sample).
- Virtual analog filters.
- Creative midi effects.
- Full MPE support.
- Build-in tutorial system.
- Powerful and innovative randomization system.
- Intuitive modulation system.
- Supports MTS-ESP for microtonality.
Audio Demos:
Pricing and Availability:
MYTH is available now with an intro price of $125 USD (normally $179).
Interesting tool, with more like it appearing lately. Resynthesis is going to become the new ‘sampling,’ especially for MPE instruments. Dropping any audio into such an engine becomes a huge new world that pushes the envelope of calling yourself a synthesist. I’m not into wild sound design, but I need to learn more about this. I’ve dabbled in it with Alchemy, but mostly just for weird pads so far. 😛
I’m torn about this. The user interface is nice, and being able to drop wave files in and have them converted to similar-sounding patches is a cool learning and experimentation feature.
On the other hand, I feel like it really devalues all the time and effort invested in sound design over the years, and that the skills most people develop with a tool like this will be really shallow. Also seems likely to contribute to the lowest-common-denominator in electronic music with people just combining the same few sounds from hits in an attempt to cash on ‘that sound’.
Then again people likely said the same thing when memory presets first became available, and there’s a lot of synth users that just audition a bunch of presets and then wiggle the mod wheel and call it a day. I remember one name producer back in the 90s who said in an interview that he rushes to buy any new synth that comes out so he can release a track with the best presets before anyone else.
… oh so all the ‘name producer” did was composing/creating worldwide seling records!? How dare he breath same air as the only real sound artists in the world: ‘synth-snob patch programmers’.
Beethoven used same pre fab sounds all the time too, what an amateur!
And now soon the ancient skill of manually creating patches in a white overcoat from some bachelors dark spare room will be elmiminated by technology! boo hoo stuck with whale blob fat in the time of gas ! (Anti quotation of B Eno)
Dawesome is known for making some unique products. Abyss, Novum, and Kult are all great. There are plenty of other synths that do resynthesis – Synplant 2 comes to mind. Myth seems to be cool, but I’m not sure it’s a solid game changer. The two Iris graphics don’t really appear to do much other than to take up some space visually that might have been used for different things. All in all, a cool synth, but not a “must have” if you have other options that do similar synthesis.
Been using this since it was released. My main thing is sound design and this goes places both weird and experimental that I love to explore, but I can see many people would be looking for more playable stuff.
Been running multiple instances in Unify and then adding FX, and getting some gorgeously insane sounds. Also bringing my Myth audio into SynPlant, wow… even more crazy audio fun.
It seems to be love-it-or-hate-it for the most part. I’m on the side of loving it; it’s almost a modular environment in its flexibility and in the potentially really complex, busy timbres it can create. I’ve been finding it really inspiring to play with. Even leaving the resynthesis on a default sine, the transformers and modules can do a ton of things. You can also turn off resynthesis and use an oscillator with classic waveforms to feed the rest of it.
The people who are disappointed mostly seem like they’re trying to use it like a sample player — they’re bummed when the result doesn’t sound like the input. (It does sometimes, but it depends a lot on the timbre.) But I think the point of the resynthesis is to feed the transformers and modules, and it’s usually good at that. Sometimes it’s like a game — given this sample, what can I create? This cymbal is now an organ-like pad, this piano is now hi hats, this recording of Sputnik beeping is a horror movie composer’s construction with a power drill, rubber balls and a metal tank…
“But I think the point of the resynthesis is to feed the transformers and modules, and it’s usually good at that. Sometimes it’s like a game — given this sample, what can I create? This cymbal is now an organ-like pad, this piano is now hi hats, this recording of Sputnik beeping is a horror movie composer’s construction with a power drill, rubber balls and a metal tank…“
Bingo bango! +1
I have hundreds of sound making things, including both hardware and software that I can “control” the outcomes on, and after decades of sound creation and sound design I know what gear to use to get what I need or hear in my head, but tools like SynPlant and Myth etc, let me explore new uncharted audio worlds… they surprise me! They take me new sonic places.
“given this sample what can I create?”
Agreed, but with SynPlant or now Myth…it’s more what will the software create?, that I can further tweak or use all my other tools and knowledge and FX and or maybe even resynthesis again, or maybe do nothing , or do what ever. Happy happy joy joy.
Resynthesis is definitely the future
Lets see if its good enough yet
Something about the core sound puts me off even though this is no doubt capable of many types of sounds.. everything seems to share this similar sheen?
This is my main gripe with most softsynths btw