help me plz i want to know how to make a good BASSLINES.

[subway]

my loop is finished, but one very big problem : the BASSLINES, i try to make a vigorito, cerone style sound bass. and i can't do it like them.
help me plz with this friends. some tips plz...

[MARKEG]

sub bass man...

if you understand the relationship between sub bass and kick, i feel you understand techno.

:D

[MARKEG]

ps - post your loop without the bass and perhaps we can all make suggestions?????

[subway]

i use with sub bass , filter and compresor, but i dont know what exactly i need to do with them , help me with some tips about sub bass and good compresion, plz....

[Dustin Zahn]

old school henrik b method: put a note on each 16th beat randomly for 2 beats and repeat. Filtered it down and get that no-nonsense bass.

[DJZeMig_L]

can u repeat that I did't quite get it ... 1 note every 16th 4 two bars, that means 32 notes!? ... sorry maybe I am lame!

Z

[Adverse]

nah mig. it's ambiguously explained.. i'd like to understand it too.

[Dustin Zahn]

sorry sometimes I am stupid.

Okay, take one pattern that is say, 16 notes which is 4 beats right? boom boom boom boom. Now, on each of these 16 notes, record a synth note lasting only that 16th note on each of the 16th notes semi-randomly. I often like to do this so that the pattern repeats itself every 2 beats.

It's kind of like arpeggio but doing it yourself.

http://www.abiotic.net/images/bass.jpg

I did a quick and real simple pattern using the piano roll in Fruity Loops using a VSTi. I always start a track out making a bassline now. I'll double up two or three synths to get it a nice warm tone and filter it down. Once I have that, you just work on the drive from there. Add some kick drums, congas, whatever gets you off and with time it will bang. If it sounds too quirky try taking the bass down an octave or filtering it.

Hope this helps some of you, works for me.

[Adverse]

that's pretty cool thanks.

[Dustin Zahn]

not a problem.

[DJZeMig_L]

I do the same in cubase but with half measure!! u can even random the notes after u've draw them...

With the step seq u can now even do odd steps :)

Z

[serox]

yeh fruity loops is goods for making simple loops like that. check out reason 2, has some amazing features, works well with a midi like oxygen.

[subway]

Dustin, what u mean "I'll double up two or three synths to get it a nice warm tone and filter it down" ?

[lunatrick]

presumably he means play the same midi riff on more than one bass sound simultaneously...

[serox]

yes that is what he means. loads of people will play the same kick and filter it to sound cleaner.