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Post by soopa »

I was just wondering, for the people who only use a SP-404 and a turntable... how do you achieve basslines?
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Post by Chulukinat »

you can use subbass and resample different pitch variations for all the tones you need
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I put in a vinyl with some nice bass solos and sample and chop 'em.
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The isolator will also do this. I was just working on some basslines five minutes ago. Do the subbass way (if you sample and use a melody play it back the same way twice, and the second way being a version of the melody or notes where everything has been stripped but the bass and some mid frequencies, and then you boost these up- instant in-key bassline) or you could also just sample bass notes.
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Post by Nickp »

Damn everyone's up.

I'm laming out, it's saturday at midnight and I'm tired and just got done making beats. I should sleep.

I'm much more productive in the morning. I've got tons of booze and no work or school or anything until my flight home on the 22. Beat time!
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Post by Cheenergies »

For a heavy sub bass like that Tribe or Dilla like sound
try this:

I was experimenting the other night, and I had a sample of a kick drum, I re-pitched it and resampled it a few times, then I added some subsonic efx it...(not fully tho), then I repitched it a few times on different pads. sounds nice. I added a nice delay on it and sounds super fresh, I had it in 8ths/T!
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Nickp wrote:I'm laming out, it's saturday at midnight and I'm tired and just got done making beats. I should sleep.!
Saturday? Damn what time zone are you in? LOL
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Post by soopa »

wow you guys kick ass, thanks for all the replys... and so quick

lol "Saturday? Damn what time zone are you in? LOL"
i was thinkin the same thing lol
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Hahaha oh shit I guess it was sunday.

I've been so out of whack for around three weeks due to some panic-attack related shit. I'd never gotten panic attacks before and yeah, everything's changed in less than a month. I'm on a daily pill that makes mke crash out at midnight and I awake at 8 or 9 everyday. It's sort-of awesome. I just make tons of music.
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"I added a nice delay on it and sounds super fresh, I had it in 8ths/T!"

Care to up that brotha?
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Post by Cheenergies »

just to add....

when you add a delay you can add the delay effect in the ctrl 1 dial turn to the left you get T8T(which i'm assuming means 8ths in triplets)

when i finish sumthin I like..I'll add some audio links def!
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Post by balazs »

the sub bass effect isnt bad but i notice a preset sound to it. I usually eq and filter the subbass.
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Post by Dj Frantic »

The sub base adds a low freq. sine wave to your sound I think. If you blend it with the original sample filtiered and soem EQ and other various effects and u can get a real different sound everytime.
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