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Trance Bass Revealed #2 - Triangle II Filtered Bass
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| TranceInMySoul |
After dj-sean's excellent thread on an Armin-style bass (and judging by some of the comments) I was inspired to write my own thread about constructing bass sounds. I've highlighted a couple of suggestions in bold for those that don't want to read the whole lot :)
To complicment dj-sean's thread, I've used only ONE VSTi (Triangle II), and NO external effects (which is possible because Triangle II has some effects built in ;))...
Before I get into it, I must point out that this is a fairly quick example. I won't go into that much detail, and the audio example is by no means finished. It's just an example, right? :D
I started with the default Triangle II preset (sounds pretty boring eh?), and the first thing I did was select Saw and Sine waveforms to make up my sound. That gave me the starting point for the sound I was after.
Next, I closed the filter down to cut off most of the high frequencies. I also played around with different resonance settings.
Now, the most important bit of the patch design. Rather than using a second instrument to provide some mid-bass content, I wanted a sound that filtered differently depending on how hard you hit a note. In tech spec, I was after a velocity modulated filter :) Luckily, Triangle II lets you do this by twisting the VEL knob in the filter section - so I got busy with that! I went a bit far, and the sound ended up with much more high frequency content than I wanted, so I wound the knob back a bit.
I spent a little while playing with different combinations of the envelope, velocity and cutoff settings to achieve a good balance whereby the filter opened up a bit but not too much at maxiumum velocity, and closed down (but again, not too much) at lower velocity. Playing around with these things is the fun part of sound design - for me it's not really a science, just try and see what works with your music!!!
That's the basics out of the way, but it sounded rather thin and weedy. So, I turned on the Chorus effect and tweaked the parameters. I've used a fair amount of chorus on this patch, and my tip is to always try chorus on your synth bass.
Finally, to add a bit more interest to the bass, I turned on the Delay effect too.
And there you have it. One Triangle II bass patch.
You'll note I haven't used many of Triangle II's features, why don't you try adding them in to see if you can make this even better :toocool:
I wrote a quick 1 bar repeating pattern using this patch, notice how the velocity of the notes is different. This is essential to get the different filtering of each note. After writing this pattern I tweaked both the note velocity and the filter settings on Triangle II to get the sound I was after. I think this is an important point - you'll probably have to tweak your bass patch to work with your note pattern, or the other way round!
And if you haven't rushed off to try this just yet, here's my audio example of the above:
Bass Line
I reckon people should try this for themselves, tweaking the parameters to see what happens. That's why I haven't made the patch available for download!
Enjoy :D |
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| Cuervo79 |
| ok... check thisone out... I'm a complete newbie when it comes to synth programing, although when i heard the sample I thought I had a synth with a preset similar to yours check it out... (its a shynt called super wave p8) |
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| Cuervo79 |
| well seems i'm too much of a newbie.. can't attach a file .... dangit.. it sounds so similar to your sound.... |
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| Atma |
| nice man, nice.:toocool: |
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