Making Basslines

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Making Basslines, what do you use?

DJ BenPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 6:54am

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What instruments / soft synths / plugins does everyone use to make their bass sounds?

I've always liked the ES-1 in Logic and also Native Intruments's Trilogy and recently the Vanguard for some gritty punchy bass.

sunjovasiePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 7:51am

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Vanguard in FL Studio... :D LOVE IT!! but i tend not to use FL Studio much :shear:

DRAMATICPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 10:03am

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i only use a bass sample in a drum machine, depends on wat style of music i spose.

DRAMATICPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 10:09am

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real question ben is where can i get some hoova samples from.? im desperate. ive made a few by modifieing other orighinal hoovas off other trax but i want a 'clean' sounding hoova. if you know wat i mean.

ralpheeeePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 1:44pm

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I've got a hoover refill.
U can only use it in reason tho.
Do u use reason?

datmanPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 1:46pm

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Trilogy & Virus C are the best for what we do and some times the Moog. Be careful of the Vangaurd i have found that some of the Bass Patches are 180 degrees out of phase. Have a listen to them in mono and they totally vanish (hey unless some of my patches are fucked).

NARCPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 3:16pm

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For most of my older stuff ive used samples that i made from Albino and Moog Modular, cant really go past real bass guitar samples tho, just a matter of shaping the bass note using truncation and your decay and sustain settings. :drama:

PatchPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 3:29pm

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trilogy is wicked.
but for the simple and effective sub bass, its logic's EXS24 all the way, love the test tone

ralpheeeePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 3:30pm

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I have to ask a stupid question!!

Could someone explain what a bassline is??
I think I know, but would like some clarity.
(cringe)
:crazy:

StrykePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 3:49pm

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QUOTE(ralpheeee @ Sep 13 2005, 03:30 PM)

I have to ask a stupid question!!

Could someone explain what a bassline is??
I think I know, but would like some clarity.
(cringe)
:crazy:

Isn't it something to do with tennis?

ralpheeeePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 3:53pm

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Thanks mate.
Thats wot I thought.

NARCPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 4:50pm

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Its what get ya subs woofin :thumbsup:

PatchPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 5:16pm

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and no, its not the doof doof kick drum

DJ ContagiousPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 5:40pm

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Ask Nortan Armstrong. Dude goes to my skool beatboxes and SUX.

He brought in a tape recorder to skool and did sum fuked up bassline wid *wicky wicky* noices. It was a laugh n a half. SO FUNNY. had to b there to believe it.

So of the topic guys, sorry. Just thought a laugh wouldnt hurt

ralpheeeePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 5:45pm

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Narc: thanx, that makes sense.
Patch: I know it's a stupid question, but i'm not quite that stupid. Cheers Anyway.

DRAMATICPosted: 13 Sep 2005, 6:04pm

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QUOTE(ralpheeee @ Sep 13 2005, 01:44 PM)

I've got a hoover refill.
U can only use it in reason tho.
Do u use reason?

yeah i got reason 3
that is such a shit hoova i dont like it at all.
and whats a bass line? dude come on! :baaa:

ralpheeeePosted: 13 Sep 2005, 7:05pm

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Dramatic: Yeah Yeah, I know its a fuckin stupid question and I've been making them for about 6mths now, but wanted clarification. Bassline, hoover, reeces all these terms, just wanna make sure ive got em all in the right order.

JaymzPhoenixPosted: 14 Sep 2005, 7:46pm

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Reason does do good bass lines if u plag a midi keyboard in,but if that doesnt tickle ur pickle,than try Fruityloops or Cubasis.

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KhemPosted: 14 Sep 2005, 8:50pm

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trilogy
absynth
v station
bass sample in sampler

aural bPosted: 15 Sep 2005, 1:22pm

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QUOTE(DRAMATIC @ Sep 13 2005, 11:09 AM)

do you want to buy my roland alpha juno 2? its the original (and the best) hoover machine and is packed full of the hoovertime patches.

aural bPosted: 15 Sep 2005, 1:26pm

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oh.... and favourite bass machine is either a moog minimoog (proper vintage analog one) or a tb-303. the minimoog has the fattest bass i have ever heard!

Cetra³Posted: 15 Sep 2005, 2:39pm

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So what's the best VST you guys would suggest? This is something that is bugged me for a while, My melodic soft-synth Z3ta+ can have the octave down tuned and you can get some really really powerful bass out of that but I'd prefer to use different synths for some variation and atmosphere. So what's the best VST?

SuniPosted: 15 Sep 2005, 8:09pm

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QUOTE(DJ Ben @ Sep 13 2005, 06:54 AM)

also Native Intruments's Trilogy

is this different to the spectrasonics one?

a lot of the time these days Phorte and I just sample subs or hardware patches

DJ BenPosted: 15 Sep 2005, 8:50pm

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QUOTE(Suni @ Sep 15 2005, 08:09 PM)

is this different to the spectrasonics one?

a lot of the time these days Phorte and I just sample subs or hardware patches

thats what i meant sorry - Spectrasonics :lol:

TurbulencePosted: 22 Sep 2005, 4:24pm

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I've been using Magix 7 mainly for my basslines - i generally have 2 basslines running through a loop - a nice fat bassline and a sub-bassline to complement it & pound out on a fat system - fully sick :cool: