The Reese Bass Thread

[TeRRo]

Coolschmid: Sounds fucking wicked with all the movement, what did you use to make it?

[Coolschmid]

Heres something I slapped together. I didn't really try adjusting many of the parameters but I think it sounds pretty good. I am pretty sure I used someone elses "melody" (if you want to call something this simple a melody) but I feel that it shows off the reese the best. Reeses love dem pitch bends. First half is with one thing modulated, second half is with two things modulated. I could do alot more with it.

http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_13412447

Ugh... I need to find a fucking site that doesn't add all this white noise into the clips. Its like a fucking distorted windstorm on top of what I originally uploaded. I guess you can kind of hear whats beneath though

[Eskimo]

Soundcloud

Yeah, once you get the basic reese ^
you can just start fiddling around with movement, this one is made in 3 minutes, just distortion, chorus and reverb, no resampling (with 3xosc)
But then again, resampling opens and closes some tweaking possibilites

[deadly_habit]

Soundcloud

here ya go been making patches in massive today, have the one i used to make this quick demo clip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12933349/Barkin ... 0Stab.nmsv

[Augment]

Can you post a short tut or some pictures? .nmsv files >.<

[deadly_habit]

nothing overly complicated, just assigned the macro controls to my nanokontrol and played the automation live

[deadly_habit]

Soundcloud

here ya go another purely massive patch i made today

[Eskimo]

Whoops I forgot to say that I used a lowpass in 3xosc and a bandpass as one of the fx o.o
Deadly habit... nothing overly complicated? right .___.

[Huts]

thats a nice one eskimo. did you have any automation on the LP/BP or did you just put them on at certain frequencies? I really miss 3xosc

[TeRRo]

Fucking hell nice reeses deadly habit! So basically the LP filter in massive is controlling the "wubs" on the reese with an LFO?

[Augment]

bigup deadly, gonna patch it in later today and play around with it

[TeRRo]

So basically I've got a question about designing a reese into a tune. Just looking to get some pointers on how you guys do it.
I'm taking it most of you resample and fiddle around with all that before you write the entire tune, and if so, how much of the reese/bassline do you resample before moving on with the track?
What I basically mean is, sure you can bounce down a riff and do some crazy shit to it for a couple of bars but if I decide halfway through the song that I want my bass to do this or that, and I'd need to go back and record another "riff" from MIDI again, that would mess things up and I'd have to go through the process again. Do you simply bounce down everything you think you need for the whole track and fiddle around with different filters and automation when you need variation?

[Eskimo]

thats a nice one eskimo. did you have any automation on the LP/BP or did you just put them on at certain frequencies? I really miss 3xosc

Thanks, the lowpass I put to like 1'o clock in 3xosc, both knobs, and in the bandpass I just took away a little low end and high end, nothing big though
Nothing automated, only pitch bend/glide whatever you want to call it
Also i just tried to run that reese through almost the same effect chain again, and it changed the sound alot :3

Terro, if you decide to do something different halfway through the track, just go and make a new reese, which does whatever you want it to do mate, no magic here mate, + it will give you some variation in the tune, that's pretty cool right? Sure it can take a bit longer, but it's worth it.

[deadly_habit]

here's a link and pics of the second patch i posted http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12933349/Neurosurgeon%201.nmsv







keep in mind in the modulation series of vids i'm doing for massive synth i go into depth on the basics and into making sounds like this, probably gonna finish filming the series today and get the final 2 parts over to the site's head

[deadly_habit]

So basically I've got a question about designing a reese into a tune. Just looking to get some pointers on how you guys do it.
I'm taking it most of you resample and fiddle around with all that before you write the entire tune, and if so, how much of the reese/bassline do you resample before moving on with the track?
What I basically mean is, sure you can bounce down a riff and do some crazy shit to it for a couple of bars but if I decide halfway through the song that I want my bass to do this or that, and I'd need to go back and record another "riff" from MIDI again, that would mess things up and I'd have to go through the process again. Do you simply bounce down everything you think you need for the whole track and fiddle around with different filters and automation when you need variation?

usually most people bounce a whole shitload of diff variations and bars based around their drums to mess with, i'd suggest reading the phace and misanthrop DOA q&a and i think if i can dig it up i have a good article that got translated to english from nphect

[lloydy]

i'd suggest reading the phace and misanthrop DOA q&a and i think if i can dig it up i have a good article that got translated to english from nphect

I'd be very interested in reading them,any chance of some links deadly?

[deadly_habit]

here's the nphect one http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12933349/n-phec ... nglish.pdf
as far as the DOA q&as i know i have the ones i liked in pdf format somewhere on my hard drive (phace & misanthrop, macc, noisia etc) just dunno where so
http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?t=565856 has a link to all of them in it

[TeRRo]

Thanks Deadly! Will be checking 'em out

[lloydy]

Yeah nice one deadly you is the man.

[deadly_habit]

np maybe if i can recover my sql database and get some hosting i can post back up my production blog and the dsf sampleswap which had those docs and such