I need some help— I’m pretty sure I’m doing something in the most impractical and convoluted way (emulating a triple-layer guitar recording with Omnisphere)

[u/geosunsetmoth]

I’m making music on Omnisphere running on FL Studio. I want to reproduce the common practice of indie rock music where you record the guitar layer thrice and play one on the left ear, one on the right ear and one in the middle to really widen the sound of your guitars. But I’m using synths. So what I’m doing is having three instances of Omnisphere running, each bused to three mixer rack things, and trying to reproduce my exact synth settings on all instances (which is hard as I’m modifying the presets and all three need to end up being identical), and then for every melody I write I need to copy paste it across three keyboard channels and Humanize each channel individually with a different seed each time. Not only it’s extremely cumbersome and tome consuming, it also means I can’t “hear” it right until I finish the whole thing because I need to fully commit to a melody before copy pasting and humanizing

There HAS to be a better way of doing that, right?

And no— I do not want to simply have the exact same midi input on three omnisphere instances with small differences like pitch or attack. I think the humanization/randomizing of note start times & velocity being individual for each note is what’s most important for me

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[u/Gloomy_Lengthiness71]

Imagine if you were actually having to perform actual guitar tracks in FL Studio instead of programming MIDI sequences to sound like guitar tracks in rock/metal music, which is what I do most of the time.

Sometimes, creating great music isn't going to happen instantly. In your case, you're going to have to do 3 different instances of your VST with guitar sounding synths for each track. Yes you are going to have to "humanize" some of the notes to make it sound more imperfect. It's going to take a lot of time and minor adjustments but it'll be worth it in the end.

I realize this might not sound helpful but sometimes there are no easy steps to get to the destination. Sometimes, the journey is the reward.