Hi all,

Just wondering aloud, what instruments make up the breaks bassline? It sounds different from the usual basslines in other genres. Any one care to share?

Thanks in advance!

Actually the instruments used in breaks tracks are pretty well identical to those used in house and (much more seldom) trance. It's just the rhythm that's different.

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What is a "breaks bassline"?

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it goes:

duh duh duuu duuuh duuuh





duh!

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hmm...

I think you want various sine bassdrums for breaks basses, not necessary synths for bass "lines".

Hmmm thanks for the replies, guys.

I'm just starting out to produce some music of my own, and I'm a complete and utter noob! I mean, I do have some music background (Piano), but I'm at a loss at what type of instruments are used in EDM.

For starters, I'm trying out this MIDI software called AnvilStudio. Heard of it before? It may be free, but it's rather powerful! I'm having some difficulty getting the rhthym of breaks tracks correct. Also, the instruments that I chose, sounds nothing like the bass of breaks tracks that are available today!

Any tips on how to use this program?

what i don't get yet is the warble or "reece" break beat bassline sound.

many breaks bassline are sustained notes....some use a variation of the offbeat trance bassline, but other more on the drum n breaks tip use that distorted smooth to fast warble sound....

is that lfo automation?

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Reeces are well easy to make. 2 or more saw waves. Detuned loads. Massive amounts of medium speed saw wave pitch modulation using an LFO.

Tube it up and overdrive the living fuck out of it.

The sine wave sub bass is easy too. Some producers use a synth set to sine wave but you can just as easily take an 808 kick drum and run it through an amplifier envelope to shave off the attack phase. The only downside to that is being able create long decays (longest it will be is the length of the sample). Dillinja uses 808 samples for basslines in too many of his tunes to mention but it includes Nasty Ways.

Only other thing I can think of is monophonic playback and portmento.

Reece = Square w/ LFO on PWM.

I like to highpass this and layer with clean fat sine.

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i think a pretty basic concept that a lot of people don't seem to grasp is that the bassline is just another melody. you can write notes for it just like any other melody. i see a lot of stuff around here about two octave basslines, but there always C3 to C4 or something really plane. you have a whole key of notes to play with...just see what fits with your track...they can be any length and any note in the key you're recording in...

Last edited by Floorfiller on Sep-06-2006 at 04:26

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Originally posted by Floorfiller i think a pretty basic concept that a lot of people don't seem to grasp is that the bassline is just another melody. you can write notes for it just like any other melody. i see a lot of stuff around here about two octave basslines, but there always C3 to C4 or something really plane. you have a whole key of notes to play with...just see what fits with your track...they can be any length and any note in the key you're recording in...

That's what I'm beginning to realise! Just had a look at the MIDIs posted in the MIDI thread and I realised that the bassline need not be of a drum instrument and are infact played as notes that suit the whole song!