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Are Square and Saw much louder than Sine and Triangle?
synonym
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On an initialized clip, in subtractive synth mode, I'm finding that the volume of the sine and triangle waveforms are much much quieter than square and saw (analog or not). I was making a bass line, so I entered some notes on the sequencer. I had started with a sine wave for whatever reason and was playing around with modulation and filtering. Then I switched Osc1 to square and nearly jumped out of my pants it was suddenly so much louder. To confirm, I zeroed out all the settings and then just started more newly initialized clips. I don't mean that square and saw are just "noticeably" louder; they are very obviously much much louder than sine and triangle. Is that a thing?
I'm still on ver.3 firmware, because I'm so very very lazy.
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just recorded deluge's output and square is the loudest, but not by a lot. sine, triangle, and saw are pretty close to each other in volume. the extreme difference may be related to your speakers, or just the nature of square/saw having way more harmonics in the higher frequency ranges.
Thanks! I was using Apple wired earbuds, at low and mid-range registers (bass line, then moved up a couple of octaves). I'll try outputting to some other things.