Elektron Musical Instruments

On 5/30/05 11:30 PM, "analogback" wrote:


>> i prefer to use as many outs as i can record at once - it's
>> a more flexible arrangement, it's more editable, and
>> you can use external effects on individual sounds, rather
>> than the entire track.  i also found early on that the
>> machinedrum seemed to lose some clarity when a whole pile of
>> sounds were stuffed through the master outs, but that may
>> have been my imagination.  i definitely prefer the sound of
>> all six outs at once.
> 
> i have noticed (with headphones) that a bass sound may swamp out
> some higher freq sounds. hard to describe, perhaps it was the
> uncontrolled use of the compressor?
> 

I have something I'm working on now with the MnM that sounds like it is
over-loading on the the main outs. When the tracks play alone they are fine.
Seems like a normal thing to happen if you have a lot going on.

>> 
>> in short: if you can, unless you insist upon using only
>> the synth's effects on its sounds, record multitrack.
>> 

Don't forget you can also just record each track individually one at a time
out of the master, if you don't want to bother with all the out's for now...