All-new bass samples
Go low with our two collections of all-new bass samples to celebrate our basscreating features. Get them on the DVD or at filesilo.co.uk…
Dirty Modulating Bass
We’re celebrating the low end this issue, with sub and synth bass tutorials, but if you don’t want to make your own, here are two bass sample collections. Robbie from Cyclick Samples says of his set:
Bass Guitars: “These were subjected to heavy distortion for some nasty and nice loops. Two of them were recorded through a chain of pedals that were then tweaked and switched.”
Filter Modulation Bass Loops: “This contains nine tempo sub-folders. Filters used were the UAD Moog Multimode XL, Cableguys FilterShaper3, Soundtoys FilterFreak and Arturia MiniFilter.”
Fuzz ‘n’ Dirty Bass Loops: “Ready to go, but could take a good dose of filtering, modulation and more distortion.”
Misc Noises: “These would suit further processing, especially time-stretching, with or without pitch shifting.
Trem ‘n’ Pumped Bass Loops: “Bass sounds modulated with a range of tremolo effects like Soundtoys Tremolator and Cableguys ShaperBox.”
For more, see the PDF in the folder at filesilo.co.uk (see p81) or on the DVD.
Bass Synth, FX and Loops
Our next set of bass sounds was produced by Groove Criminals. Oli from
Groove says of its creation: “It’s all about that bass this month and so we decided to go old school and rinse the low end on a selection of the hardware synths that we have knocking about.
“We clocked the Roland SH-101’s, erm, ‘unique’ built-in sequencer using the sync out of an Arturia DrumBrute. We also used that same technique to clock a Korg SQ-1 that was driving a small Erica Synths semi modular synth voice.
“The analogue bass loops are a mixture of synths, including the old school (and underrated) Novation Super Bass Station and Yamaha CS5, among others. We tried to leave them dry but couldn’t resist a touch of analogue delay here and there.
“The FM basses are also a mixture of a TX81z module and a Volca FM being fed original DX patches via MIDI and Dexed.
“The Moog samples came courtesy of our Mother 32 and we threw in a set of loops from the Korg Monologue – a great little synth which we suspect may go on to become a little bit of a cult classic as we head into the future.”