Track Breakdown: Redshift 6 Paraphony, Digitakt 2, Chroma Console

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"This is the first proper track I've made with the Supercritical Redshift 6, and I wanted to take it apart properly. The chord stab you hear at the start is three notes coming out of a single analog voice, which is the thing I still find hard to believe.

The Redshift is multitimbral, so I used it as three instruments at once: a pad chord stab, an arp, and a three layer lead. Each one goes out of its own stereo output. The two aux outs are always dry, meaning they skip the internal FX section entirely, so the arp runs into a Chroma Console and the pad into a Microcosm. The lead keeps the synth's own delay.

Everything else melodic is sampled from the Redshift into the Digitakt II, which is also doing all the sequencing. Around 16 layers in total, so apart from the drums this is one synth.

I also skipped Overbridge this time and recorded four stems straight into a Zoom LiveTrak, which meant committing to the mix as I went. That's why the bass is split across two tracks.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:25 The chords - one voice, three notes
3:52 The arp - and what the Chroma Console does to it
4:46 Chrome Console overview
7:36 The lead - supersaw, macros, and four voices
10:57 I almost gave up on this track
12:41 Some of the Digitakt II layers
15:57 Digitakt trick: a trance click on a 909 kick"