If you need an excuse to suit up for an extravehicular activity in the cosmos of sound, Absynth is back again. Native Instruments quietly dropped Absynth 6.1, with oft-requested LFO retrigger and undo/redo, plus a surprise: a new audio modulator.

New in this release, the official bullet-point version:

32 new instrument presets

100 new samples

Undo/Redo

Audio Modulator

Auto Trigger

LFO Retrigger

This does evidently change the preset format, so you can only open patches created in 6.1 with another copy of 6.1 or later. Hat tip to Synth Anatomy , or I might have missed booting Native Access for the refresh.

Having new sound content is nice (including samples), but I’m impressed that Brian Clevinger and the team at NI managed to squeeze more modulation functionality out of the Absynth architecture. As I noted in my hands-on with Absynth 6 , while Absynth’s sound design depth absolutely holds up in 2026, you do sometimes hit occasional limitations.

But hold up, because 6.1 has some new tricks.…