Yeah, I’ve been digging into those old synths for weeks. The “layers” you’re talking about are the unfiltered, real‑time waveforms that get smoothed or even erased when you copy them to a DAW. Those analog quirks—clipping, subtle harmonics, the way the voltage rails bleed—are the fingerprints of the hardware. In digital you’re handed a clean, repeatable signal, and all that messy charm gets lost. It’s like watching a film reel bleed into a clean PNG. The real story is in the noise that never wants to stay still.