Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Voyager and Im trying to make that Nasty (Detune Saw) Bass Sound. I have spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to figured this out but still cant get it right. From where I understand this sound is made slightly detuning os2 using 2 SAW waves and a Triangle.
I saw a bunch of videos on youtube where people uses NI Massive to get the sound, well I also purchased Massive and made the sound, but still not happy with it so I really want to be able to make this sound coming out of the voyager.
I would be really happy if someone guide me on how to make this sound come out of the speakers.
Thank you!
Gio.
Nasty Electro Bass Sound (Wolfgang/Deadmau5/tommytrash)
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Re: Nasty Electro Bass Sound (Wolfgang/Deadmau5/tommytrash)
It's still 3 weeks before I'll have my Voyager but I can walk you through the general components of that kind of dirty electro sound.
You'll want to use saw waves for all the osc. It's has a full harmonic content that still sounds musical.
Set osc. 1 to be your "bass saw" adjust the octave to your liking.
Set your fitler Cutoff all the way open at first you can adjust it later to tune the sound up.
Since this is a BASS patch you don't want to add too much resonance on the filter. Generally though set your resonance to zero and your Cutoff Maxed. tune in your oscillators and then go back to adjust the filter to taste.
Osc. 2 and 3 generally should be set an octave higher than Osc. 1. They provide the buzz to go along with it's "boom". The Detune should be noticeable, but only just enough to get some. If you go crazy with it you'll be too far out of tune and it'll just make a noisy mess (not always bad but not as musical as you'll want for something like this) The big key here is to detune osc. 2 & 3 using an even ratio. You're trying to keep as much of the sound in phase as possible.
SO if you set osc. 2 to be 5 cents off, set osc. 3 to be 10 cents off. or 8 cents and 16 cents. You get the picture. this should give you LOTs of harmonics to work with.
Set your mixer section nice and loud too. Overdriving the filter input is what gives you that warm sound that software can't do well.
In your Envelope Section you're not going to really want to do any filter modulation. just let it lie until you get a decent base setting then you can add from there to make it your own.
In the Amp Envelope Use the shortest attack time possible 0 out the knob and max the sustain so it doesn't get quite while you're holding a note. the release will be up to your personal preference and how you plan to play it.
A good number of the producers and DJs you listed use a lot of Compression that's Side-Chained to the kick drum to get that *pump pump pump* kind of swelling effect. you could add that in your DAW after you record your bass lines. There are a lot of tutorials on-line for different setups on how to do that.
Sorry this isn't super specific but hopefully it helps ya.
- Adam (newb)
You'll want to use saw waves for all the osc. It's has a full harmonic content that still sounds musical.
Set osc. 1 to be your "bass saw" adjust the octave to your liking.
Set your fitler Cutoff all the way open at first you can adjust it later to tune the sound up.
Since this is a BASS patch you don't want to add too much resonance on the filter. Generally though set your resonance to zero and your Cutoff Maxed. tune in your oscillators and then go back to adjust the filter to taste.
Osc. 2 and 3 generally should be set an octave higher than Osc. 1. They provide the buzz to go along with it's "boom". The Detune should be noticeable, but only just enough to get some. If you go crazy with it you'll be too far out of tune and it'll just make a noisy mess (not always bad but not as musical as you'll want for something like this) The big key here is to detune osc. 2 & 3 using an even ratio. You're trying to keep as much of the sound in phase as possible.
SO if you set osc. 2 to be 5 cents off, set osc. 3 to be 10 cents off. or 8 cents and 16 cents. You get the picture. this should give you LOTs of harmonics to work with.
Set your mixer section nice and loud too. Overdriving the filter input is what gives you that warm sound that software can't do well.
In your Envelope Section you're not going to really want to do any filter modulation. just let it lie until you get a decent base setting then you can add from there to make it your own.
In the Amp Envelope Use the shortest attack time possible 0 out the knob and max the sustain so it doesn't get quite while you're holding a note. the release will be up to your personal preference and how you plan to play it.
A good number of the producers and DJs you listed use a lot of Compression that's Side-Chained to the kick drum to get that *pump pump pump* kind of swelling effect. you could add that in your DAW after you record your bass lines. There are a lot of tutorials on-line for different setups on how to do that.
Sorry this isn't super specific but hopefully it helps ya.
- Adam (newb)