Recording in Massive: Quick Survey

Just wondering how people are dealing with recording their compositions in Massive 1(I'm using 1.1 as well, but honestly for some reason I find v1 easier to work with). The reason why I ask is because I have recently done some recording of several songs I put together. One thing I have noticed is that by recording the individual parts into my DAW, the songs end up sounding slightly different than how they sound playing as a snapshot in the ensemble. I believe a big reason for this is is the Return A & B functions. Those two knobs are adding effects to the sound that cumulatively make the song sound a certain way. Am I correct, or just going crazy? Obviously, recording all six sequences in the snapshot at once is not going to work either. Can anyone suggest to me the best way to approximate precisely what I have done in the ensemble in my DAW? Oh, and Mike Daliot, you are the **** for creating this monster. Thank you. And a goodnight to you all.

 

the 2 delaybeased effects have a big part of the sound. most ensembles do tend to sound differant without the polish. metaphysical function, for example, sounds alot "smaller" without the reverb on. plus, the FX in massive have a unique characvter to them, especially since they are gated.

i usually jsut make loops with massive in the recorderbox. i set it to start recording on clock start, and end after N bars. i also have used it to compose the backing of a whole track. for this, i just hit record, and change the snaps and controls (especially the sequences, filter and grain parameters) in realtime. the recorderbox is very nice in standalone, since it allows you to make perfectly looping soundfiles that can be opened up in a DAW. Live is perfect for this, so is sonar. even reason, especially if you have recycle, so you can bring the loops into Dr.Rex (now that ReBirth is free, maybe ReCycle will be too - hah, keep dreaming, dan!).