Most of the times I use Novation V-Station for my basslines, I love it!
Albino is also fairly nice for crispy basslines!

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And for those sidechain-progg basslines I use my JP-8000.

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Last edited by [Alpha]Dave on Jul-04-2007 at 12:12

i like pressure for sub-bass

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Massive is cool for basses, but you can use anything at all, just buy a decent synth and you should be set. So not nexus (rompler) and not vanguard (too metallic).

Just a quick question for V-station users (and other synths I suppose):

Do you use the arpeggiation for rolling basslines (i.e. 1 x bar length note) or manually program in each note?

Also, I find a lot of the presets (even when tweaked a load or FX off) for the V-station sound very muddy in the mix. Anyone else have this?

I find Novation bass station is basic, but useful for "bread and butter" bass sounds.

I use z3ta for pretty much everything.
I would rather just use the one synth and learn it really well instead of having a heap and digging for patches.
That is until I gain abit more skill.
But I think that it is far too easy to get lost amongst synths in the search for a good sound.

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Originally posted by kitphillips Massive is cool for basses, but you can use anything at all, just buy a decent synth and you should be set. So not nexus (rompler) and not vanguard (too metallic).

this is true.. anything will work.. layering is key to the bass (well to most things actually)I know this seems like a shameless plug but if u check out my remix for the track clicky on my myspace page (www.myspace.com/jrmedina) i made the bass for that track just with the stock fruityloops plugin ts-404 i think is its name. Of course there is compression and EQ applied as well!

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I use my Virus for basslines. You can get some insanely fat bass sounds out of it.

hmmm novation bass station is shit. i tried it before and there was no way for me to get a decent sound. i've used v-station for basslines. it's pretty good, but i haven't explored all nooks and crannies. i'm sure it does wonders though. AlphaDave could you share some bass sounds you've gotten out of v-station?

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I use Blue For pretty much all my basslines now a days.

http://www.macmusic.org/software/re...d/3315/plug/VST

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