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Hello everyone. This is my first post here and I'm very excited to join the community and learn some new things. As part of my first thread, I would like to discuss certain techniques and ways to make a really large, wide sounding chords used in a large verities of music. Right now I have been experimenting with NI massive (although I use other synthesizers as well), and I'm curious how other producers out there form the base structure of their sounds.

Things in particular I'd like to talk about are:
*Waveforms - What do you use, and why?
*Layering techniques - Do you start with your low ends or high ends first? How do you establish a smooth blend?
*Unisono amount - How much is 'too much?'
*Widening the sound with Fx like chorus, EQ's, (possibly) saturation, etc

Feel free to throw out your ideas and brainstorm, people. I don't collaborate with other people enough and I'm always keen on learning new things.

So one thing I've been trying to emulate is this sound from vexare's 'the silent majority'
For the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNzRpjNMko

Once you get past the intro you can hear that huge house-y chord synth open up. Once its opened, that's kind of the sound I'm aiming for. It sounds like he's using a low pass filter with low resonance and a maybe a saturator to give it that kind of crunchy bit-styled sound? Any idea what waveforms you think he could be using?

i'm not a house guy, and i have no speaker to listen to the video (lol speaker blown), but for any saw house chord stuff, i'll make 2 separate synths, one low, one high- I start with the low.

I'll use 3 oscillators- one white noise, then PWM or Dirty PWM and a Square-Saw for the other 2- add an envelope with really slow attack to one oscillator taking the pitch up 16 cents and to the other oscillator taking it up 24 cents- play with pitch bend. it does cool stuff if done right. really cool.