Bass synth, FX and loops
Our next set of synth sounds was produced by Groove Criminals. Oli from Groove says of its creation: “It’s all about that bass 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 ‘unique’ built-in sequencer using the sync out of an Arturia DrumBrute. We also used that same technique to clock a Korg SQ-1 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.”