Here are some notes about instruments I like to use in Caustic.

For a nice distorted guitar sound I use the PCMSynth with the Dist Guitar preset.

One of my favorite sounds is the Boss OC-3 Guitar pedal. I don't reproduce the sound of that pedal very well but you can create a similar thick sound by adding a second PCMSynth with the Dist Guitar preset and then reduce the octave knob in the pitch section by one octave. Play the same notes as the guitar machine to get a thicker sound from the two playing together.

There *might* be an easier way to do this that I just haven't discovered yet but there is no “octaver” pedal in Caustic.

I like the deep bass I get from using the FMSynth with the PH E Bass preset. I got some pointers from other posters in a thread in the Caustic forum and did the following to get an even deeper bass sound.

- Started with an FMSynth with the PH E Bass preset. - I went to the effects module and added a Multi-Filter. - I set the filter type to Low Shelf (the default). - I swept the Freq knob just above the lowest setting. - I set the Reso to zero. - I boosted the gain to taste.

https://soundcloud.com/joel-dare/deep-base-from-caustic

I'm not entirely happy with it but my favorite piano sound so far is an FMSynth with the PH EPiano preset.