Deep Dive Into Unison and Detuning

In this video I take you on a DEEP dive into how widely different every synthesizer can implement unison and detuning. I also demonstrate how to balance out a unison/detune setting that is pushing the sound left or right in the stereo field.

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[mantrasoul]

just FYI, on the Serum global tab there is a setting for unison stereo width, which is by default set to 100%. To achieve that width, frequencies are put out of phase so it is self-evident that the more of this width you use, the more you will lose because the frequencies are all folded together resulting in phase cancellation. I have tested Serum vs Vital and sort of did the same checks you did here. It's pretty obvious to me that in this video you have much more stereo unison width setting on Serum than on Avenger (perhaps there is no setting for the user to change the width further than what you have here and Avenger devs decided that they never wanted unison voices to be that much out of phase as is possible on Serum). On headphones it's quite easy to hear that your Avenger sound is much less wide than Serum. So in conclusion, it's not that the way Serum does stereo is more detrimental than Avenger (which i get the impression is what you are saying with the video). Serum just allows you to do wider stereo (aka out of phase sides), or maybe you just missed a global stereo setting on Avenger which allows you to go wider as well.

[NAWN]

Very short - 25mins
hahaha but I'm ready

[Leo-egmq]

For next time Instrument selector might be helpful.
Also, Bitwig Studio only uses the last instrument active to play notes, which means you only need to deactivate that one (Serum in this case).

Anyway, very interesting! Thanks for this video!