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Having a few problems with multiple oscillators

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charles ·

Hi, first post. Sorry if this is a common issue, I don't know much synth lingo so I don't know what it would really be called. Basically whenever I make a synth with more then one oscillator they seem to sound awful. I get a lot of noise, and it seems like they "crash" into each other. I'm using a stereo clip to reduce noise, but that doesn't really seem to be the problem. Even when one oscillators volume is off, it still causes the other one to distort quite a bit.

I get no trouble with single oscillator synths, it's just as soon as I add another one it all seems to flip out. Any ideas? Help would be greatly appreciated.

infuzion ·

Welcome to SM Charles! Likely summing = out of [-1..+1] range. Posting OSM is best. Also good: [old link]

charles ·

infuzion wrote: Welcome to SM Charles! Likely summing = out of [-1..+1] range. Posting OSM is best. Also good: [old link]

Thanks!

What's OSM mean? Sorry.

I'll read through the tutorial, the first one I looked at was really basic, but this one seems more in depth. Hopefully I'll be able to understand it.

🙂

nix ·

Yo!-Wecome 🙂 I'm not sure that summing is an issue. It should be fine internally to run figures over 1,-1? .osm is the file format of SM. Are you using more than 1-'poly to mono' ? I had issues clicking issues that were solved by using only 1 'poly to mono'. Yeah man, up the .osm and I let u know how it fares on my system edit-it could be clipping on the master out though, sorry- infuzion meant that

charles ·

nix wrote: Yo!-Wecome 🙂 I'm not sure that summing is an issue. It should be fine internally to run figures over 1,-1? .osm is the file format of SM. Are you using more than 1-'poly to mono' ? I had issues clicking issues that were solved by using only 1 'poly to mono'. Yeah man, up the .osm and I let u know how it fares on my system

Yeah, I read the the tutorial, and I'll try fixing my 'poly to mono' situation. Hopefully that fixed the problem, if not I'll upload it. Thanks!

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