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Hello All, have recently brought my first Moog... I like the SUB37 but I find the presets are very vanilla. What I want to try to achieve is getting some brooding Moog Taurus basslines, anyone achieved this and does anyone know how to go about it if so?

Cameljohn

I have no experience with the taurus synth, but if you haven't tried it already, try setting osc volume to 2 (8_9 o clock) multidrive very high (3 till 6 o'clock) and dial in quite a lot of feedback, maybe even just under the selfoscillation-squealing point. you can get some really nice sounds this way, i've made some good vintage sounding funk-bass sounds with this technique.

Another nice trick is to use this sound with an arpeggiator and set one of the lfo's in sync and sample&hold, and have it modulate the feedback amount just over the treshold i a rythmical way, causing some notes to jump out and creating a very dynamic & alive organic arpeggiation sound.

the 6 db filter sounds really interesting, especially when you crank the resonance

The duophonic mode with the aftertouch modulating the pitch of just oscillator 2 can make some real evil drone type basssounds, very Riuichi Sakamoto -The Revenant OST like.

the S37 sings when you use external effects, even running it through digital effects or the effect section of certain vst's gives stunning results & will make you realise how much potential this thing has. i love bitchrushing on the raw organic sound of the oscs & filtersweeps, gives you some monster vowel like basses.
Chorus FX make it maassive

Happy exploring!