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Skyle
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by Skyle » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:06 am
Alright so I'm using malstrom, although this has happened to me with thor too.
As the song is playing, each time it hits a note, which is the same note, it sounds a bit different a less bassy. Why is this? I've come across this problem way too much and i need an answer.. is it just Reason? This never happened to me in other DAWs, but i love Reason.
Any help is appreciated.

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Cubicle
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by Cubicle » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:39 am
Skyle wrote:Alright so I'm using malstrom, although this has happened to me with thor too.
As the song is playing, each time it hits a note, which is the same note, it sounds a bit different a less bassy. Why is this? I've come across this problem way too much and i need an answer.. is it just Reason? This never happened to me in other DAWs, but i love Reason.
Any help is appreciated.

Have you checked if the note is the same velocity?
Is there any automation going on? Could be that there is a lfo on the cutoff that goes really slow.
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Refuzed
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by Refuzed » Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:27 pm
its a bass note. it will have something to do with fundamental frequencies, the notess you're playing, the sepc of your monitors. some ontes osund bassier than other, this is how it works. you can try using a compressor, or very fine eq automation
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drake89
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by drake89 » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:04 pm
yes different bass notes sound differently depending on loads of different variables, including your ears.
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Pr1malscr34m
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by Pr1malscr34m » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:11 pm
I suggest putting the sound to Monophon, since i have the same issues with Ni Massive when set to Polyphon and more than 1 Osc.
Try it that worked for em at least.
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RandoRando
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by RandoRando » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:13 pm
you have to make sure its retriggering in your synth
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Shum
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by Shum » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:19 pm
RandoRando wrote:you have to make sure its retriggering in your synth

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Suangi
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by Suangi » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:53 pm
had this problem with NI Massive when first using it. it was a real pain until i figured it out. fixed it by setting the voices/max voices ratio to 1. for example use 1/1, 4/4, ... 16/16. if you have it set at 1/4 for example, it will rotate through 4 slightly different voices playing 1 at a time. i don't use reason, but i'm guessing this will work as its a standard feature of most synths ive seen.
as Pr1malscr34m mentioned, it can also be due to monophon/polyphon/monorotate settings, in which case you want monophon.
hope this fixes the trouble
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RandoRando
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by RandoRando » Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:00 am
Suangi wrote:had this problem with NI Massive when first using it. it was a real pain until i figured it out. fixed it by setting the voices/max voices ratio to 1. for example use 1/1, 4/4, ... 16/16. if you have it set at 1/4 for example, it will rotate through 4 slightly different voices playing 1 at a time. i don't use reason, but i'm guessing this will work as its a standard feature of most synths ive seen.
as Pr1malscr34m mentioned, it can also be due to monophon/polyphon/monorotate settings, in which case you want monophon.
hope this fixes the trouble
Or you could have just went in the osc tab and checked "restart via gate"
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Suangi
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by Suangi » Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:53 am
RandoRando wrote:Suangi wrote:had this problem with NI Massive when first using it. it was a real pain until i figured it out. fixed it by setting the voices/max voices ratio to 1. for example use 1/1, 4/4, ... 16/16. if you have it set at 1/4 for example, it will rotate through 4 slightly different voices playing 1 at a time. i don't use reason, but i'm guessing this will work as its a standard feature of most synths ive seen.
as Pr1malscr34m mentioned, it can also be due to monophon/polyphon/monorotate settings, in which case you want monophon.
hope this fixes the trouble
Or you could have just went in the osc tab and checked "restart via gate"

thanks, good to know.
another solution for any synth is to bounce the parts that sound how you want to audio and resample / arrange using the audio rather than the synth output.
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by bassinine » Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:09 pm
this is to mimic how analogue synths don't sound the same every time you play the same note. there is a setting to turn this off in massive, but i can't remember exactly what it's called.. will look after work.
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