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1. Kye Fox (kye@snouts.online)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 09:51:10 EST Kye Fox

   Reaper has a little button on tracks to invert the phase polarity. The easy button for finding out if you have phase cancellation issues.

   1. Kye Fox (kye@snouts.online)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 09:57:07 EST Kye Fox

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      Everyone on producer forums is looking for the hottest new off-by-a-penny plugin to solve all their issues when you can get 99.9999% there just by making sure waves aren't slamming into each other.

      Minding panning, amplitude, and phases will get you most of the way.

      1. Kye Fox (kye@snouts.online)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 10:14:35 EST Kye Fox

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         Phasing explained with a sine wave: a sine wave works kind of like the wheels on an old steam engine. The engine (oscillator) keeps going in a circle, moving the wave (the thing that connects to the wheels) up and down in time.

         Polarity is where it _starts_. So if you start two engines at the same time moving in opposite directions, they cancel out. Going in the same direction, they're additive: you get a louder signal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4V0b-RLknc

         1. Kye Fox (kye@snouts.online)'s status on Monday, 24-Dec-2018 10:17:07 EST Kye Fox

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            You can imagine this gets more and more complicated to reason about as your waves get fancier. That's why inverting polarity is good, like an artist does on a painting they've been working at to see the flaws.

            Try this on your favorite synth. Helm is free and cross-platform. Start up both oscillators with the same kind of wave and invert one. It'll go silent.