Hi folks! I saw this minithread on AH and thought those of
you who aren't subbed there might find it useful..
Sean
----------------------------------
TIme Is FRying...
From: Neil Bradley <root@synthcom.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:23:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: How do you go boom?
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Bernard Leon Howard wrote:
quoted 6 lines How do you guys get a booming kick?
> How do you guys get a booming kick?
> So i was just wondering if you just take any old kick and compress the
> hell out of it, EQ it in some obscure way, or just start from scratch
> each time and say lets see what happens. I just want Funkdoobious bass
> and my akai's sine wave is getting old.
> Any ideas would help greatly:)
Well, here's what I wind up doing:
I slide the attack, sustain, and release all the way down. I move the
decay up about 1/4 scale. I then have the envelope modify the filter
setting and open the VCA wide open or set another envelope to modify the
VCA with immediate attack with a very long decay. I then crank the
resonance almost all the way up. I keep the VCF setting down around
1/10th the way up. This works great on Jupiter 6's, and a similar
technique works great on the Xpander/M12. This technique doesn't work at
all on D-50's, D-70's, M1's or other digital synths. It just winds up
sounding really stupid.
Oh yeah, for the pure bass I use a triangle wave. For a rougher bass, I
use sawtooth, triangle, and some noise. Good luck!
- -->Neil
-
and also this...:
From: David Evans <dfevans@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 00:42:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: How do you go boom?
Neil Bradley wrote:
quoted 11 lines On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Bernard Leon Howard wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Bernard Leon Howard wrote:
>
> > So i was just wondering if you just take any old kick and compress the
> > hell out of it, EQ it in some obscure way, or just start from scratch
> > each time and say lets see what happens. I just want Funkdoobious bass
> > and my akai's sine wave is getting old.
> > Any ideas would help greatly:)
>
> Well, here's what I wind up doing:
>
...
quoted 4 lines 1/10th the way up. This works great on Jupiter 6's, and a similar
> 1/10th the way up. This works great on Jupiter 6's, and a similar
> technique works great on the Xpander/M12. This technique doesn't work at
> all on D-50's, D-70's, M1's or other digital synths. It just winds up
> sounding really stupid.
This great simple ENV->VCF trick works wonders on the Minimoog as well.
Not
as well on a Juno 106, really badly on the Alpha Juno-2, Korg Poly-61, and
my
PAiA modular. TX81Z is OK, though. ;-)
- --
David Evans (NeXTMail OK)
dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie
http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the
composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707
Manual