During the “bass” tutorial Phil loads a great sounding bass-instrument. Unfortunately this instrument doesn’t seem to be included in the zip file attached to the tutorial. Phil mentions something about “searching for it”, but i cant make out what he really means.br
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Can anyone teach me how to put together an instrument like what was used in this absolutely great tutorial?br
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Thank you! :)br
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I think it’s just a bass guitar, right?br
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Just track down some bass guitar samples, or look in your sampler and there will probably be a preset based on bass guitar samples?br
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What DAW do you use? I’m sure Logic has a bass guitar present in the EXS sampler. And i know Reason comes with the ID8, which includes a bass guitar patch.br
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Not sure about Ableton though?
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I dont think its simply a simpler with the bass wave on it. The sound Phil gets in the video is far superior to either of the waves played through a simpler.br
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Is it put together as a macro (not sure this is the right term) with the different waves on separate chains?br
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Im using Ableton by the way.br
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I do remember watching this video, although it was a while ago so can’t remember exactly what he does, and i’m at work so can’t watch the video again now.br
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But i’m sure that from memory, he uses compression and some distortion to beef up the sound.br
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Regardless of what he does for this particular sound, i think this is the kind of thing you need to do, if you want to great a great sounding bass guitar patch for a dance track.br
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Try using compression and distortion, perhaps as part of parellel processing, to make the sound seem larger, and more aggressive.br
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Simply adding something like Sausage Fattener into the chain will improve the sound no end.br
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You could also add a synth sine wave for more sub an octave below the bass guitar for more beef.br
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Also, you can EQ the bass guitar and add more bottom end, try boosting anything between about 50Hz up to 200Hz, to effectively add more bass.
The sound was just samples i recorded form by Bass guitar… thing there are like 6 notes or so sampled… they are all included in the .zipbr
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Ableton just doesn’t know where they are so you have to link them up.br
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there will be an orange bar at the bottom of ableton saying missing samples… double click on it and it will bring up a dialog to the right where you can show ableton where the samples are.