Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Andy Tarpinian 
<evildead@n...> wrote:
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> On 5/30/05 11:30 PM, "analogback" wrote:
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> >> 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?
> > 
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> 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.
> >> 
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> 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...

glad you posted this, i thought i was hearing things! maybe routing 
the bass heavy sounds to the individual outs is the best option.. i 
wonder if elektron is aware of this problem..