rob wrote:Seems like a decent technique to get a little more gain out of your patches that require only a single tone. I know that when I'm creating a bass patch it's tough to keep the volume up and still get low booming bass.
I found that running it through a compressor can really beef up the volume level. I run my synths through ableton so this is a bit easier than having a hardware compressor... but when I make a wobble and layer it with a sine for the sub, I usually have to turn down the other two osc's so I can really get some bass out of it, but it only goes so loud which isn't a problem for production but when ur playing live and you need to switch patches and one is significantly louder than the other. So I run it through a utility plugin and a compressor, which isn't good for reducing volume but if one patch is too quiet i can just press a button on my midi controller and it's limited. This also helps me improve the stale tone these digital synths have these days