ABSYNTH 5 Reference Manual – 195
14.1.3 Timbre
This set of attributes describes the sonic composition of the sound (always considering the
selected instrument).
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High: Used for high pitched sounds and to distinguish similar timbres by their range, like
a piccolo ute, hi-hat, bells etc.
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Low: Used for low pitched sounds and to distinguish similar timbres by their range, like
a bass clarinet, kick drum, sub bass etc.
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Distorted: A sound featuring obvious distortion/overdrive. Saturated and heavily bit reduced
sounds are also found here.
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Clean: A sound featuring no distorted sound elements at all. Can be used to further
specify instrument groups, e.g. clean electric guitar.
• Bright: A sound with emphasized high frequencies.
• Dark: A sound with de-emphasized high frequencies, perhaps from lowpass ltering.
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Warm: A sound with an organic, pleasing ambience, often associated with analog sounds.
Technically speaking, warm sounds tend to have a bit more lower midrange emphasis and
not too many highs.
• Cold: Not a natural sound, but a more electronic/digital sound.
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Fat: A “room-lling” sound, e.g., an analog super sawtooth sound, also to be used with
typical unison sounds.
• Thin: A small sound or a sound with a narrow frequency band.
• Hard: A general, rather subjective interpretation of a sound. Can be used to differentiate
similar instruments (e.g., vibraphone with hard mallets). Also associated with hard-synced
oscillators.
• Soft: A general, rather subjective interpretation of a sound. Can be used to differentiate
similar instruments (e.g., vibraphone with soft mallets).
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Muted: A sound with a muted or damped quality, like a muted guitar or con sordino
strings. Usually found on acoustic instruments (a dark sound is not necessarily muted).
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