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szurcio · Post by **szurcio** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:41 am

What are you guys using for stacking several synths (for example, to combine several different bass presets from 3 plugins) - Is there anything like Rob Papen's Prisma but for other synths?

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:04 am

Live or Bitwig... but have instrument racks which make layering any synths easy...

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:06 am

Simple in most DAW's I would guess. In FL Studio you load up all the synth plugs you want to stack and set them all to the same midi channel.

ontol · Post by **ontol** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:23 am

Studio One does this fairly easily, not sure if that is an unusual thing or not...

Armagibbon · Post by **Armagibbon** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:40 am

Yea isn't that a vanilla thing for most daws? Load a buncha synths, play tutti...

Does Prisma do anything special with that hosting capability? If it lets you route a buncha cv shit every which way, that'd be pretty kickin.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 3:42 am

You could try Plug and Mix Chainer:

http://www.plugandmix.com/products/p1888-Chainer/

But I am currently working with FL Studio's Patcher plugin for layering synths. I still need to figure out the Mid Routing for using controllers and how the assignments work in relation to FL.

Armagibbon · Post by **Armagibbon** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:06 am

P&M makes one of those too? How well does it host plugs that aren't theirs?

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:19 am

I use a big monitor. If I really need to stack more, I turn it sideways.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:25 am

With Ableton Instrument Rack this problem is non-existent. Because it's native solution - if I had to use some external plugin to hold instruments, it would be much more cumbersome.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:46 am

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:01 am

I do that often. In Logic f.e. you have stacked tracks where you can play 1,2...10-20 or whatever you like synths at the same time and hide them in one track (like you put things into a folder).
You can have 100´s of tracks using each it´s own instruments, FX and midi FX channel etc. save them all into a stacked track as single performence triggered via one midi channel (you also can split them if you like).
You even can put then additonal FX into the stacked track then.
I love that. This way you can simply load a monster stacked sound or things like 20 arps played as one huge polyrythmic instrument without having to look at 20 different tracks in your sequencer.
I also can do things like open the tracks with a click, sustain some of the instruments and play melodies with some others and so on.
But i´m sure every major DAW can do such things these days?

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:44 pm

Any DAW and my ears.

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:39 pm

I use Mercury.
Multi timbral so I can stack up to 4 sounds in one vst and on one channel.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 6:52 pm

Just send the MIDI from one synth to the others. You can do that in most hosts, without the need of anything extra.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 9:24 pm

DrewDale wrote:I use Mercury.
Multi timbral so I can stack up to 4 sounds in one vst and on one channel.

This synth was a gem at its time (between 2001 and 2004).

It's too bad that I sold mine...

Stacking several softsynths