Resampling Tricks...

[Gorō Masamune]

There may already be a thread on this & excuse me if there is.

I've begun to dive into some heavy re-sampling, and there are some basslines where I'm sure they're doing lots of re-sampling but one cannot be completely sure of what exactly is going on.

Have a listen to the bassline on this particular track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o19YHdhm8Yg

It actually sounds like one or two different patches were made and different parts of the movements were sliced out & chopped up. Like for example, letting a wobble go from the low shelf to the high shelf and then the high shelf sounds like it's glitching (please bear with my terminology if it is not completely accurate). If you listen closely to the bassline you will hear what I am trying to describe. It's either what I explained or some sort of granular synthesis was used, not sure.

I'm quite fascinated with this technique and I'd like to know, any professional tips on this, have any of you used it in your basslines? If so, let me have a listen to a track where you've integrated it in nicely.

Listen to the track so that you can hear what I am trying to describe & PLEASE only reply with comments that progress the topic. Thanks.

[ehbes]

Wall of text = tl;dr

[Gorō Masamune]

Wall of text = tl;dr

Come again...?

[topmo3]

he means too long; didn't read. although your text isn't a wall and i find it easy to read. he's just being a prick

[ehbes]

he means too long; didn't read. although your text isn't a wall and i find it easy to read. he's just being a prick

No I'm grumpy and lazy

[Climax]

The
It actually sounds like one or two different patches were made and different parts of the movements were sliced out & chopped up. Like for example, letting a wobble go from the low shelf to the high shelf and then the high shelf sounds like it's glitching

You are on the right track,
basically once you have a bass patch & "phrase" or whatever you want to call it, you can start making subtle or drastic changes to the bounced version, slicing it up is a good option too, you can reverse it, glitch it up by chopping, stretch it, sweep filters, add fx like chorus/phaser/flanger/distortion

the possibilities are endless

[Gorō Masamune]

^ Thank you sir. Awesome track in your signature too!

[Climax]

well thanks

another thing i have found and have been using quite a lot, is if I have a sound that i like but it doesnt quite have the presence/power it needs, ill resample it, take that audio and cut some of the lows with an EQ or filter, and then ill just layer the resampled bass part, and play it directly over the original synth, and add some stereo widening (I use abletons stock Utility tool for this quite a bit, Ozone would be good too if you have it)

[Triphosphate]

I'd just like to add that you should always keep a phase rotation plug handy when layering resamples, that is all... Also, little known fact, you can throw an allpass filter on a duplicate to invert the phase the lazy way.

[Gorō Masamune]

Thanks for the tips, you guys are awesome. I'm going to experiment with this for a few weeks or so then post up a track where I feel I've done this technique some proper justice.