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mixing analog and digital sounds

2004-10-15 by dhamaryder

Just out of curiousity I was wondering if other people have a 
similar experience when using a real analog synth(like Evolver) 
in the context of predominantly digital sounds. I'll work for hours 
on a great sounding patch in Evolver but when I go to use it with 
other sounds from my predominantly "virtual" analog collection 
or with samples that have been digitally processed and filtered 
within my sequencer, I find the sounds from Evolver really stand 
out, in fact they stand out so much it's not practical to use them. 
They often just don't fit in because the sound is so radically 
different. The exception is when I'm making leads, basses, or 
some kind of traditional sounding patch. Then it's great. But 
when I create very textured sounding patches and sequences I 
find it difficult to find a context that fits well with them. I absolutely 
love the sound of them on their own but have the damndest time 
finding a place for them. I don't know, maybe they just need to be 
compressed or filtered so that they will fit better with other 
sounds. Anyone else have this problem? Have any creative ways 
of dealing with it?

steve

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