Dawesome has released the next evolution of its color-based synthesizer for Windows and Mac (VST3, AU and AAX).
Abyss II aims to transform how musicians create signature textures, pads, and evolving soundscapes by replacing traditional oscillator menus with pure timbral exploration.
Warm, cold, dark, brilliant, silky, lush … we use the exact same words to describe sounds as we use to describe colours. This simple yet radical premise forms the heart of the instrument: sound is processed by our brains just like colour and texture. By throwing out abstract formulas, numbers, and tech jargon, the synth offers a purely intuitive playground where sound design feels like messing with paint.
Most synthesizers force musicians to think like engineers. Abyss II is designed for pure creative flow: pick tone colours, place them on a visual gradient, and shape your sound by pure instinct.
Abyss II features
- Feed It Anything: Drop any sound into Abyss II – from a phone voice recording of a distant crane to a guitar snippet. The engine instantly extracts its unique timbral character, tunes it automatically, and creates visual “Palettes” of tone colours to draw from.
- Pure Flow, Endless Variety: Combine multiple tone colours on a single gradient, or explore thousands of built-in colours to create your own unique expressive instruments.
- Instant Character: the performance controls allow musicians to simply add character. New in Abyss II are BRUTE, VELVET and SYNTIFY, which do exactly what their name says.
- Creative FX chain: A custom chain of four effect slots with 20 unique “pedals” to effortlessly shape your sonic character.
- Kinetik & Movement: An integrated poly-rhythmic sequencer with independent step lengths for pitch, octave, gate, and velocity brings static sounds to life with endless, non-repeating movement.
- 400+ presets: 200+ new designed presets and 200+ upgraded classics from Abyss 1.
- Workflow & QoL Upgrades: mono-synth mode, a full-featured preset browser with tags and favs, a preset name generator, undo/redo, wave-drag-out of recently played notes, light on CPU usage.
Abyss II is available to purchase for the intro price of $89 USD for a limited time (regular $149 USD). Owners of Abyss 1 can upgrade for $45 USD during the promotion (regular $75 USD). Anyone who purchased Abyss 1 in 2026 receives the upgrade to Abyss II completely free.
A free full-featured demo version is available to try the plugin.