That’s MYTH in CAPITAL LETTERS.
I’m all for more resynthesis tools and so pleased to see this one finally released. Spectral resynthesis is a process where a sound sample is broken down into a set of contoured sinewaves which when added together form an approximate sound-alike of the original. The more sines the better, but the envelopes can quickly become complex and difficult to control. Currently the best quality is found in Steinberg’s PadShop2 and Halion. You will not hear anywhere near that quality in MYTH. What you do get is more modifications of the sound after the resynthesis*.
Dawesome tends to describe controls in very idiosyncratic terminology and layout. This can be annoying but acceptable in that it forces you to learn the instrument, rather than follow old habits. The prominent example here being the ‘iris’ which is a multi-coloured circular form that vaguely maps to a graph of the sine envelopes over time. Why a circle? Well perhaps because it loops at the end of each sample? Of course when it doesn’t loop the envelope looks kind of like a fish hook which doesn’t mean much. I guess the two irises look like a face. QED. What the colours mean is not very clear either. It’s pretty?
If you drag a simple sound into MYTH you have a decent chance at clean synthesis. Bells, tones, sustained synthesiser sounds all good. But bring in something complex and – well, it’s pretty awful*. So there are many controls that you can apply to tame the result into a good starting point. Smooth it back to a pure tone, or change the sines to saws or squares or phase it, chorus it, hell there’s lots of little wheels below the iris to turn, just try them all and double click to reset ones that are no help. The author intends that you to fiddle with the knobs just like you would on an old synthesiser to get a sound, just go for it. From this I guess that he sees the oscillator sources as just the start of the synthesis process.
If I may be so bold the resynthesis part of MYTH isn’t that important. You’ll notice a fair few of the good example patches start from simple analogue style waves. Near modular patching where multiple envelopes and LFOs apply to many aspects of the sound get you a lot closer to a good result. Having a stack of FX applied to each iris also moves a lot of the synthesis quality into the end stage. This is very much like Phase Plant, so you might want to look at that as an alternative. And Padshop2 does have multiple LFOs and ENVs that can be sent to position, purity, inharmonics etc. If you want to bend the sound you can.
In summary this seems to be a case where if you want a sampler to be a bit like a synthesiser go with Padshop. If you want a synthesiser that can make sounds that are a bit like samples then try MYTH. I think you can justify both.
* A new version 1.5 has been released and the quality of the spectral waves is very much improved. They were ‘just OK’, they are now ‘pretty good’. I think they might remain less clear than Padshop because they have to be modulated and reformed in so many ways. It’s still two different working methods but definitely the gap has been tightened.