Better off when it comes to production/arrangement purposes (...just better, though)

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On. Effects are an integral part of synthesis in many situations. Doubling oscillators, PWM by a triangle wave and adding chorus are variations on a theme. On a 2 osc synth I may have a doubled up sawtooth sound, and want to add an extra oscillator but keep the thick sound, so I cut the saw down to one oscillator, do my experimental crap with the newly freed up osc, then turn on chorus . I prefer to use synths' internal FX like this, as an extention to the synthesis process, and generally keep mixing FX on the mixer where they belong.

I just wish preset designers (not all of them but some) wouldn't pile on draconian amounts of Supa Awesum Effeckxzorz like huge reverbs that are mixed as loud as the dry sound.

A global FX on/off, an FX mix scale knob (that divides all FX mix values by a certain factor), or individual global on/off switches for each effect all work well for me.
Last edited by Sendy on Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

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If there are numerous effects like more than 2, and there are more than a few parameters for them, I wish devs would include effect chain presets too, at least for the preset.

There have been many times where I thought, gee I wonder what those effects would sound like on this other preset I also like. And I did not want to visually remember or write down the effect order and parameters of those effects.

off

Both. Don't like these binary 'wit us or agin us' polls. It's 2012, why can't we have it all, Off AND On, Yin AND Yang, Abbot AND Costello?

I have no problem with FX being on, having them turned off arbitrarily takes away tools from the patch designer. If I need to turn off effects, I can easily do it myself.

Reverb off
other effects on

In fact for clarification, i assume that presets are more or less concieved similarily as solo instruments, totally out of a quite unpredictable context of arrangement/production

So the least you can do as a primary adjustment would usually to turn off those internal effects that might sensibly be replaced by the ones from the send/return loops of your mixing environment