Been learning and seeing a lot of Youtube video on gear and sound synthesis for the last year, really been able to understand what LFO is/does when playing during one hour with the Polyend Tracker last evening. Before that, I was just faking it. Now, I feel that I can visualize the impact of the LFO and try to imagine what 3 LFO per track like in the OT can do instead of 1 LFO per instrument in the Tracker.
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I know absolutely nothing about mixing. But sometimes, I sound like I do. But I really don’t.
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20-ish years in, I still don’t completely get compression.
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I recently read and felt like a bit of a dummy for not knowing or noticing that when mixing on headphones you tend to crank the reverb because you can hear as well. Which explains why all of my first pass mixes sound like mush and when I do my main mixes doing my monitor mixes I usually clear it up. Not that they’re great, just not as mushy.
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Marc Rebillet
Man just discovered this guy on this here forum…
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Three lfo’s on octa are nice for multiple modulations however another interesting approach to multiple lfo’s is assigning them all to the same destination. You can then mix lfo frequency and depth to create much more complex modulation on that single destination.
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In the case where you point the 3 LFO to the same destination (= same track? same sample? Not sure how it works with an OT, never owned one), you have basic signal processing arithmetic that occurs between the 3 LFO to create a weird hybrid form (example: 1 triangle, 1 square et 1 saw with different amplitude and frequencies, mix and matching them?) that is applied to the destination through time ?
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exactly.
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Oh hell yes thank you
“Snap” voice setting on Hydrasynth.
Makes the envelopes snappy! Just discovered it. Now I want to leave it on all the time.
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No one ever does mate… but shhhh, dont tell anyone 
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I was like you not so long ago, then it became a lot clearer with the help of the interweb.
…But i still use it badly.
I only learned in the last couple of days (on here actually) that Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits (and engineer Chet Wood) invented MIDI 
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Gotta respect a guy who wants to play chords on his minimoog, realizes he can either invent a protocol to wire multiple synths together or build his own analog poly, and does both.
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Speaking of midi, did you know you that when you hook up a midi controller, you should probably check what all the midi change notes are, or you’ll mess up your saved patterns?
Not that I’ve ever made that mistake before…
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Interesting tests that help you hear frequency ranges better.
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“slightly” bad midi cables are a real thing - I’d always assumed that due to the digital nature of midi a bad cable would be obvious - either they work or they don’t. Today I had a module that kept getting hung notes. I swapped the cable and the problem went away. Not sure how or why.
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Not only that, after Sequential went bankrupt for the first time, Dave worked for Yamaha and designed the synth engine of the AN1x!
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And then he turns around and links up with Roland, making it not just a weird Santa Cruz thing, but a global standard.
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