UrsaMajor wrote:A width slider would be preferred, because it gives you the option of spreading it a litte bit.
But a mono/stereo switch would work great as well.
Or the button could have several modes like 100%, 75, 50, 25, and 0%.
That way it would still give you the option to separate the sound in the mix a little bit.
I have noticed that the more you spread a sound left and right, the wider the sound of course, but often you lose the punch and impact of it, it becomes more diffuse.
OK, now we get to the core of the problem.
The fact that the sound loses punch if with higher unison depth is not mainly because of the stereo spread.
Actually, the stereo spread has only a minor effect to the punch of the sound.
The punch is lost because of the detuning, as the detuned waves might meet each other at -1 (wave1) and +1 (wave2).
As you see in the docs, the stereo spread already depends on the number of layers. The more layers, the more spread.
The User Manual wrote:The VA-Beast Unison offers 3 different signal multiplication levels:
2x (pans 1 signal slightly to the left of the stereo field, and 1 to the right)
3x (pans 1 signal fully to the left of the stereo field, 1 to the right, and keeps 1 in the center)
5x (pans 2 signals fully to the left of the stereo field, 2 to the right, and keeps 1 in the center)
If you want to keep the punch, reduce the layers, and even more important, reduce the unison depth.
A good amount for fat bass sounds with unison is 2x and depth = 6 - max 10.
UrsaMajor wrote:Yes, give us more LFO's - you can never have enough LFO's haha
It may also be interesting to throw in a few more waveforms in the LFO's.
Perhaps add some sort of shaping parameter of the waveform.
And also 1-shot mode
I'll see how much the performance impact of 6 LFOs would be (I cannot give you a promise yet, but I agree that more LFOs would be nice).
A shape slider might take place (no idea where exactly yet) with a similar shape functionality like the oscillators have (e.g. sine morphs to saw approximation).
All VA-Beast LFOs already have a one shot (env) mode.
UrsaMajor wrote:Exp/Lin switch for all stages would be great.
I'll definitely consider that.
Thanks a lot for your very well thought out suggestions.
I really like most of them.
Btw. are you already member of the beta community?
And if not, are you willing to join?
Just visit
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/g-stomper-public-beta-group and click "Apply for membership".
Would be great to have you aboard;)