Love love love the bass! Great feel to the whole track!

Love love love the bass! Great feel to the whole track!

Your track as a nice drive to it and I like that!

Your track as a nice drive to it and I like that!

Raspy bass, well done!

Raspy bass, well done!

I'm still amazed you get that sound just with Renoise... I used it from a chiptuner perspective, so it seems I've got to relearn a lot of stuff. Any plug ins or just Renoise devices?

I'm still amazed you get that sound just with Renoise... I used it from a chiptuner perspective, so it seems I've got to relearn a lot of stuff. Any plug ins or just Renoise devices?

No effects plugins, but I did use SodaSynth and Fabfilter Twin for synths. I used them both on the same bus with loads of effects on that channel. I love the Renoise effects btw.

I have two secrets/techniques I use to get all these bass sounds:

1) There's this one SodaSynth preset called "The Percussion that Grows", which has the right harmonics to always sound amazing when you put it through the Renoise "Cabinet Simulator" effect (guitar amp sim). I usually start with that and tweaks the cabinet simulator until I get a nice starting sound.

2) I layer a ton of effects after the cabinet simulator, usually the Renoise chorus with distortion as the modulation param (instead of the default LPF), then EQ, low-pass filter, compressor, etc. etc. Sometimes I EQ a couple of times in the chain to get things under control because the cabinet and chorus with distortion can get really out of control.

I used to do all of this stuff with just WAV samples (oscillator sounds) instead, and the same applies. It's even better to do that IMHO because it's easier to layer and it forces you to think more about the ADSR envelope of each sound.

[quote=laguna]I'm still amazed you get that sound just with Renoise... I used it from a chiptuner perspective, so it seems I've got to relearn a lot of stuff. Any plug ins or just Renoise devices?[/quote] No effects plugins, but I did use SodaSynth and Fabfilter Twin for synths. I used them both on the same bus with loads of effects on that channel. I love the Renoise effects btw. :) I have two secrets/techniques I use to get all these bass sounds: 1) There's this one SodaSynth preset called "The Percussion that Grows", which has the right harmonics to always sound amazing when you put it through the Renoise "Cabinet Simulator" effect (guitar amp sim). I usually start with that and tweaks the cabinet simulator until I get a nice starting sound. 2) I layer a ton of effects after the cabinet simulator, usually the Renoise chorus with distortion as the modulation param (instead of the default LPF), then EQ, low-pass filter, compressor, etc. etc. Sometimes I EQ a couple of times in the chain to get things under control because the cabinet and chorus with distortion can get really out of control. :) I used to do all of this stuff with just WAV samples (oscillator sounds) instead, and the same applies. It's even better to do that IMHO because it's easier to layer and it forces you to think more about the ADSR envelope of each sound.

I agree, and also love Renoise effects but I've just lost some of my "tracking instead of mind" and it's difficult to grasp the pattern window again. Anyway, sometimes I use that cabinet with some drum loops, until I get the proper "phatness"

I also use some basic wavetables with the Ableton sampler, just like in the old days...

[quote=gify] I used to do all of this stuff with just WAV samples (oscillator sounds) instead, and the same applies. It's even better to do that IMHO because it's easier to layer and it forces you to think more about the ADSR envelope of each sound. [/quote] I agree, and also love Renoise effects but I've just lost some of my "tracking instead of mind" and it's difficult to grasp the pattern window again. Anyway, sometimes I use that cabinet with some drum loops, until I get the proper "phatness" :) I also use some basic wavetables with the Ableton sampler, just like in the old days...