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Posted : Nov 30, 2011 15:47:08
Hi there, this is my first post on this forum, i'm quite a newbie in this style of music (and electronic music in general) and i'm beginning to dig into the exciting world of production.
I've just listened a psytrance song with a great groovy bass in the middle section (kind of a bridge between the full-on parts) and i would really appreciate your help in figuring what kind of modulation/effect/adsr could be used to obtain such effects.
Have a listen from 3.40 (especially from 3.57).
Thank you for your help, my knowledge is really basic and i need to gather some information on actual song/techniques.
orgytime
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Posted : Nov 30, 2011 16:31
youre talking about this basic pitch sweep?
you can make it with "glide" etc. just note that the bass looses sub freqs at higher pitch.
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Posted : Nov 30, 2011 17:36
sounds like a pitch bend with some filter automation.
you can automate the pitch bend of your bass synth, and you can automate the filter cutoff frequency. Try a low pass filter with no resonance, and when you make the note just make it the right length, sweep the pitch whatever sounds good, and mess with opening the filter over the course of the note. Maybe make the rate of opening exponential instead of linear.
not sure what DAW you use, but tom cosm can teach you a lot if you are using ableton:
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Posted : Nov 30, 2011 21:41
hi
it is better not to automate your main bass channel but
make a new one or duplicate your main bass channel's settings and change the envelopes of filter volume and pitch. also i think you must high pass it a bit.
you can duplicate it many times and make "many" different sweeps that repeat every 4 bars or something.
experiment https://soundcloud.com/poisonritual
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Posted : Nov 30, 2011 22:48
why not automate main bass channel (assuming automation is done taking care that adjustment of bass sound is still easy, i.e. in ableton you can use modulation within individual MIDI clips in 'envelope mode' then all mods are relative to global settings, which are still adjustable on the synth main interface.) ?
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Posted : Dec 1, 2011 05:27
yes you can automate the main bass channel and have the same results
i just think that splitting it into different channels makes your life easier nothing more
https://soundcloud.com/poisonritual
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Posted : Dec 1, 2011 05:59
oh ok, yeah i do agree, i sometimes split if i have different bass themes or whatever. tricky though, cuz then if I change the EQ on one or the volume or something, and forget to do it on the others, the onsistency is lost. unless consistency is not the objective, in which case then its fine. or if i would just not be so forget ful --
http://soundcloud.com/equilizyme --
