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I was hoping it would gel more easily with the Peak but maybe not stereo, but I was looking at the ehx graphic fuzz. And I 100% agree on mixing those synths and the Digitone’s unique timbre. No that’s a good point, I have that problem too. The Analog Heat is the obvious answer here but Reverb fucked me over so hard with fees that im gonna have less than $300 to work with after I buy the dn with my a4 money and i would rather not dump more money into my setup (money that does not come from selling existing gear)ĭeco, mf drive, analog drive, downer, haunt?

I’ve also considered rackmount graphic eqs or eq pedals but im not sure how useful they would be on a synth. Would a wavefolder be better than an average distortion pedal designed for guitars? Does the Haunt’s odd harmonic fuzz and eq give you enough control to adequately and musically saturate an oscillator signal without just drowning it in dirt? is it worth putting external effects like this after the dn? I am considering the Malekko Downer, the OBNE Alpha Haunt, or just a Portastudio 424 mk1.

In my experience the only really good saturation for synths have been the overdrives built into them (A4/Circuit Mono Station /Moogs) the Plumes was actually good, but not good enough to justify taking up space and money that could be spent elsewhere in my setup. I am not very familiar with distortion and overdrive but i know that a lot of them are not necessary or just dont sound good at all on synths, especially digital ones, but if there is a certain kind that does, I would be interested. I don’t think it is necessary to put it through anything but I’m curious if anyone has had any particularly nice results with anything in their experience. Now I’m wondering if anyone has any tips that may help me enhance the Digitone. i do also have the ehx platform after my synth sub-mixer and before the octatrack to glue my synths together before summing to the octa thru track. Also at one point or another had a dd-7, bastl thyme, cooper fx outward. it became a distraction as well, and made everything i put it through sound too large for my busy mixes. I’d still have Rooms, but I cant justify holding onto a pedal that has the same effects as most of my other gear, even if they are better quality. Plumes was nice, and it sounded great with the Rev2, but i didn’t find it very helpful with the Digitone. At that time, I also had the Earthquaker Plumes because I wanted to make the Digitone sound more gritty and saturated alongside the Rev2. I had Rooms from DBA which was even better than the Ventris, almost “analog” sounding, and has almost every other effect i could ask for (chorus, bitcrush, delay, resonator, bp filter) and very nice gain for wet and dry independently. I had a small eurorack setup for synth fx processing with granular (nebulae) and other fx processing (analog mmf, mi warps, mi rings, nlc dispersion delay) for my synths, but that distracted me way too much from making actual music and i just spent all my time doing weird sound design that no one wants to hear. I had a Ventris for reverb, which was beautiful, but too big for my live stereo recordings from the Octa (via thru tracks) to stereo track in Ableton and redundant with the amazing digi reverb. I have used effects with my synths in the past, but they always seem to be more of a distraction than an aid.

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I am also finding that I use the A4 much less for synthesis now, almost not at all, so I decided I’ll get the Digitone again for sequencing the Peak and using the 4 digitone synth engines to compose full polyphonic tracks like I used to. I have since replaced the Rev2 with a Peak, and it’s not nearly as harsh/bright/analog. I did have a Prophet Rev 2, so I thought a Digitone would be better suited for sequencing 8 voices via midi, but i realized i wasnt using the synth engine at all because it was so opposite the raw analog (dco) sound of the Rev2. This is the 3rd time I will be buying another Digitone and I wont have any purely analog gear aside from the Rytm to mix in my recordings now. I am sacrificing my Analog Four for a Digitone (again).

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