Noise problem(crisis) with Toxic III

Website · by **MrrKAT** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:29 pm

This has been always but I just observed it recently.
If I play high close notes (d8+f8) at the same time, then it doesn't sound right and clean. It gives extra noise and often notes are unidentified.

If I load two toxic III's where another plays d8 and another f8, then common sounds are much cleaner than in one toxic III.

This difference is observable in spectrogram too.
Crisis is this: The extra noise is also among much lower notes too. In fact most of my tracks have this extra noise, though not so easy to recognize. Previously I thought it is only in the highest notes.. and I wondered how come those commercial Dj's etc get so fine high notes and sounds.. (due to top class hardware ?)

Solutions to problem ?
1) Having as many Toxic's as therea are notes played at the same time ?
Complicated and takes too much CPU-time..

2) Sampling sounds to Sampler and.. ?
Simple, fast to play but limited variations ?

by **Mark** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:33 pm

Are you sure it's not the aliasing that is common to all FM synths? Have you tried increasing the playback rate in your Audio output settings to see if this helps?

by **Richard** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:37 am

Sounds like you have the distortion effect enabled?

by **Mark** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:14 am

He he, didn't think of that!

Website · by **MrrKAT** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:36 pm

Eh eh, there's always something new to learn..
Thanks for tip and hints anyway.

I tried increasing playback but only 44->48 is working in live. Faster is available but I'd have superhyper computer because it is CPU-hungry.

For recording ...WAV 44->96 gave better quality but in practise recognizable only if high notes +distortions in use.