How to make it sound good

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@""Matthewsavant""

The monomachine is capable of a vast and beautiful range of sounds but I’ve heard a lot of people having lack luster initial impressions I think what a lot of people don’t realize is that the MNM has perfectly set up gain staging so the initial raw square or saw may sound a little thin and/or too low but the gain staging is set up so you can take full control of the EQ you have plenty of places to boost the EQ without clipping.
In that sense (and only that sense) it reminds me of the access virus series where the initial waveforms sound a little thin but the EQ allows you to make it sound huge.
I believe that’s a huge plus because it gives you the ability to make anything from razor thin cutting leads to fat and juicy bass lines unlike say a lot of analog gear where just a raw OSC sounds so fat that it can limit the sound scape (which obviously has its place as well)
But that’s my take on it, Dig deep into the various synth engines and don’t over look the EQ and gain staging and you’ll be making all kinds of great sounds.

I’d like to hear more about this. I felt like this idea of gain staging deserved its own thread, and I hope the mods agree: Gain staging?