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112268 (are you palm?). Anyway you give too much emotional investment in things I post here.
Of course I enjoy this I work on basslines at minimum 2-3 hours everyday like a religion. Theres really nothing I look forward to more in my day.
I definitely get frustrated but I'd prefer myself to be frustrated everyday and actually improving to some degree then content and making the same generic rolling basslines one after another like Butler at least notices around here.
I think this is the second time Butler mentioned his issues with rolling basslines and I've agreed with him everytime. I've heard some excellent trance tracks, with the same generic bullshit basslines I hear everywhere and I can't listen to them no matter how creative the melodies/percussion might be. Its almost like people don't even know how to make bass. Open a saw wave, throw some noise in there, detune a bit, throw a lp env over it, and we're good to go. Orrrr just find a saw bass preset, move the knobs a little bit so it sounds different, throw it through a phaser and walah we have a tyas bass.
I don't even like most of tyas's basses as phasing basslines like that are a copout and it shows a total lack of creativity. Sometimes it will sound right like in Alt F4 - Alt F4, but most of the time it sounds boring and cheesy. I agree with Butler 110% (just not about using phasers). I hate almost every bassline I listen to in trance. Even the sample I submitted I hate. I use it for reference not for the sound but for the properties and depth of the sound.
I've stopped nearly 90% now making any kind of typical saw bassline. I do everything FM styled using sines, and I twist knobs endlessly looking for a completely new and different sound. I never find it, but usually I will find something at least not so generic as the rest. I'll likely be going through this trial and error bass phase for many more years to come. I just can't go spend countless hours on writing and arrangment, form and being creative, just so I can slap a nexus preset sounding bass in my track. I have no motivation to complete a song and have someone say "wow, that bass is good, its phased just like tyas!" I'm trying to learn something real different, that just sounds different, but better, and still works. So I obsess about it over and over all day long. But I certainly enjoy it. If I didn't I wouldn't be on this forum in the first place. Although I'm likely more of a bassaddict than a tranceaddict.
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Sequencers: FL Studio 9XXL & Reason 3.
Main Synth Bass GTs - Pro-53, V-Station, Sytrus, Subtractor, Trilian, Blue, Sylenth & Z3ta.
Main Synth Lead/Pad GTs - Z3ta, Sytrus, Sylenth, Vangard, Albino & Nexus.
Main FXs GTs - Waves Plugins, Soundtoys, Volcano, FL Native FX.
Hardware - Truths, Echo Audiofire, Virus Snow, & Novation Xio Midi-Synth.
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