bassline tutorials

[ritaheed]

anyone got a tutorial on how to make basslines?

basically wanting to know how to make a simple rolling bass

a can make them but there always far to harsh and in yer face, a want a subtle rolling bassline for the likes of hard techno/schranz/jackn

any ideas?

[DannyBlack]

I having trouble with basslines myself. Here is a small tutorial for funky bass lines ala daft punk. Not what you're looking for but it will give you a good idea about patterns etc.

http://sonictransfer.com/bass-sequen...aft-punk.shtml

[The_Laughing_Man]

anyone got a tutorial on how to make basslines?

basically wanting to know how to make a simple rolling bass

a can make them but there always far to harsh and in yer face, a want a subtle rolling bassline for the likes of hard techno/schranz/jackn

any ideas?

Try a simple 4 note appreggio (somewhere low on the scale) repeated 4 times per bar - so 16 notes in all
Copy the appreggio and place it somewhere close on the piano roll another 2 times, making appreggio chord. Go for something dissonant, although a harmonic chord can have nice effects.

Have a low pass filter selected, turn the resonance up, and close the filter down until you are left with a rolling rumble.
Add some bass saturation or EQ
Sidechain to the kick but don`t overdo it.

Hey presto big rumbling rolling techno bassline.

I can provide pictures also if need be.

[ritaheed]

Try a simple 4 note appreggio (somewhere low on the scale) repeated 4 times per bar - so 16 notes in all
Copy the appreggio and place it somewhere close on the piano roll another 2 times, making appreggio chord. Go for something dissonant, although a harmonic chord can have nice effects.

Have a low pass filter selected, turn the resonance up, and close the filter down until you are left with a rolling rumble.
Add some bass saturation or EQ
Sidechain to the kick but don`t overdo it.

Hey presto big rumbling rolling techno bassline.

I can provide pictures also if need be.

yeah defo man!!

[DannyBlack]

do DB, post them if you wouldn't mind. I'm hitting a wall at the moment with my basses.

[djfilthmonger]

do DB, post them if you wouldn't mind. I'm hitting a wall at the moment with my basses.

+1 would be very helpful. thanks

[The_Laughing_Man]

Ok firstly I started with a synth.
I did this very quickly, so bear with me for the roughness.
I used Synapse Hydra. A great Bass Synth.
And I used the Solid Dub Bass Preset. Which is basically a sinewave bass sound.

to Begin with, the appreggio.






I then turned the resonance up to about halfway, and brought the lowpass filter down until the sound became like this (I also added a little low end EQ boost)

http://www.iterativemusic.com/db/RumbleSolo.mp3



Then I sidechained to a simple kick I made with a kick generator and compresson, to give you an idea of what can be done with the sound.

http://www.iterativemusic.com/db/RumblenKik.mp3

And finally, wacked in a few other simple elements to show how the sound works in an ensemble

http://www.iterativemusic.com/db/RumbleFull.mp3

You can have lots of fun around this principle.
Try carying the pitch of the appreggio every 4 notes.
Or long 3 note chords played with this sound in interesting timings can give great effects for really interesting bass lines

Experiment.

[DannyBlack]

You are a legend. This is going to help me exponentially. Thank you Steve, very very much appreciated.

[djfilthmonger]

yeah cheers for that.

[ritaheed]

yeah man thts seriously helped alot

its pretty simple wen it shown to u like tht

thanks alot mate :)

[curly]

Your a Diamond steve.

[vinvanman]

good tutorial man.

[DannyBlack]

Steve, using your advice I started this:
http://rapidshare.com/files/228703883/song2looop1.wav

so far it has my interest. thank you very much indeed.

[DJPAUZE]

Steve, using your advice I started this:
http://rapidshare.com/files/228703883/song2looop1.wav

so far it has my interest. thank you very much indeed.

Bass sounds nice here dude, I can however hear 2 kicks going at once. You may want to check your start/stop points for both of them.

I have actually started using Guru, absolutely brilliant vst for drums:

http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=4&tab=21

And nice work Steve, I think your summary was clear and concise.

[DannyBlack]

Bass sounds nice here dude, I can however hear 2 kicks going at once. You may want to check your start/stop points for both of them.

yeah I had to EQ the kicks to seperate them from the start points of the bass. there was an odd clicky in there i needed to kill. gone now. track is sounding cool now.

[The_Laughing_Man]

I`ll do some more of these for other types of basslines, for big dub/drum and bass type stuff, and more groove based as well.

[ritaheed]

aye defo mate

[Patrick DSP]

nice job DB, the only thing I'd add to the tutorial is make sure your notes are in some sort of common scale. It'll help to keep things more harmonically pleasing.

http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm

That site has been helping me keep things sounding clean for god knows how long.

cheers,
-p.

[The_Laughing_Man]

nice job DB, the only thing I'd add to the tutorial is make sure your notes are in some sort of common scale. It'll help to keep things more harmonically pleasing.

http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm

That site has been helping me keep things sounding clean for god knows how long.

cheers,
-p.

Or not, sometimes dissonance works wonders, especially when you are using a loose filter that might emphasise the dissonance

[loopdon]

Isn't the example in the ''chromatical scale'', anyway? :lol: