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So, I've been working on a more relaxed style song lately and there is one sound I have pretty much had in mind for the song that I've had a lot of trouble recreating. The best way I can describe the sound is by showing you a song with a similar sounding bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THS-VHC8sA at about 00:41 seconds in.

I've heard a lot of Gemini tunes with basses that sound this way. I also hear a lot of other artists out there doing this type of bass sound. I'm used to resampling a ton and making sounds that way, but these basses almost have a stringlike quality to them that I cannot seem to come close to getting with massive. Does anyone have any insight on getting something similar sounding to the link I posted? I looked for a thread with info in here and had a bit of trouble thinking of a decent way to describe the sound without showing a clip.

Tbh to me a lot of Gemini stuff just sounds like sidechained "house" synths layered over the bass - try layering a patch based on two slightly detuned PWM oscillators on your bass and mxing the two together frequency wise and don't forget to sidechain the "string" synth to a 4x4 kick.

Yeah, try making a bass with the modern talking WT (I'm not kidding) and then layer a saw pad patch over it with chords. Also, the sidechaining should be done with a 4x4 kick or an LFO or something, sidechaining to your hearable kick and snare will go too slow.

its all about layering with gemini's drops.

Thanks a whole lot for the help guys. I think I pretty much nailed the sound I was looking for. What I was doing wrong was trying to make a chord sound using the wavetables and detuning them by 5ths to try to get that chorded sound. Instead I just made a new patch and put chords in midi instead of a single note. Took my wavetables in massive and set 2 PWM's and detuned them a bit like someone said. Added another oscillator -12 semitones down and just picked a random waveform that sounded decent. Sent the synth through some processing and sidechained it to a ghost kick that did a 4x4 pattern. Layered a sub underneath and bam that is exactly what I pictured it to sound like.

If you guys wanna check it out, it is the track in my signature. Thanks again for the help, it totally got me to rethink things and achieve exactly what I was shooting for.

That's really nice man, sounds really chill - arps are a nice touch too, where's the vocals from?

I made this bass for a tune once, never finished the tune though. What you want to do is make a patch with some detuned saws, play chords of them, layer with a dark bass (so to speak) and then I layered some strings to give it that warm, almost organic feel.

wow that rip is so distorted i can barely hear. sounds pretty nifty tho. reminds me a lot of some of the modern trance that comes out w/ that half eastern/half western feel. the top layer sounds squarey. somewhere in there is a low, notched sounding FM tone. sub on the bottom. probably a supersaw in there eating up some mids.

sounding pretty good there man. i could see myself making some stuff like this if i didn't always feel like putting a kick on each beat.

i've gotten similar results layering a pad, saw, and a sub and then side chaining it. pretty nifty tune i personally think xilent pulled it off better