I had an idea, based on current experience, regarding parallel compression using the digitakt, a daw and ob plugin.
To my understanding until now, you can only use the dt compressor when all tracks are being routed to the master. But while using overbridge, this allows you to receive dry signal to the individual outputs regardless of the routing setting.
For this trick to work, a daw would be needed using the overbridge plugin. In your daw (I use ableton) create a master track for the digitakt master output, followed by 8 additional audio tracks for each 8 tracks in the digi. In the dt audio routing menu select send all tracks to master. Whilst sent to master, you can now use conpression. Now, to create the dry signal which one would use to mix back into the compressed signal, all you’d have to do is stream the dry signal from the 8 dt tracks into the 8 additional audio tracks you created in the daw and, finally, mix to your liking.
I don’t know how correct this would be in terms of parallel compression technique as my knowledge is limited to just some pieces of intel regarding the subject. I just stumbled upon this by mistake, forgot to disable the global setting in the audio routing, but was impressed to find my grooves had more dynamics when this has occurred, and I thought this could come close to the actual parallel comp. technique itself…
Please feel free to debate, argument, critique
etc.
Edit: of course this could be achieved better using other daw techniques. I thought about it in a way that would need or require minimum hardware/software resources.
