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Could anyone give me any tips to making my bass patches and such sound robotic? Similar to the bassline in Datsik and Downlink's "Against the Machines." Or Datsik's "Boom." I don't mean to make this a "HOW DEW AI BEE DATSIK AND EXCISION?" thread, I legitimately want to know some theory behind these robotic sounding basslines and how to get them unique and really robo sounding rather than just a generic, crappy attempt at a dubstep sound.

There are tons of forums already open about this, I recommend you go check them out because people have really disected the sounds and theorys behind them etc

That being said, for hydraulics and stuff comb filters are good to get that rising pitch and make it sound like a transformer standing up. And in general for robo basses, really short delays are great for getting that machiney sound

There's this thread.

Try:
Sub osc, complex wave, second complex wave +1 oct
LP or formant filter, automated
Sample and hold / bitcrusher
30ms delay w/ feedback

EDIT: I also found Massive's step sequencer gives a computerised sound.

jonahmann wrote:There's this thread.

Try:
Sub osc, complex wave, second complex wave +1 oct
LP or formant filter, automated
Sample and hold / bitcrusher
30ms delay w/ feedback

EDIT: I also found Massive's step sequencer gives a computerised sound.

That first line under 'Try', is literally impossible for me to understand. A lot of you talk in this summed up, nickname type of way, and maybe I'm the only one, but it doesn't help at all

Mind elaborating what you mean... >.>

Omniclad wrote:

jonahmann wrote:There's this thread.

Try:
Sub osc, complex wave, second complex wave +1 oct
LP or formant filter, automated
Sample and hold / bitcrusher
30ms delay w/ feedback

EDIT: I also found Massive's step sequencer gives a computerised sound.

That first line under 'Try', is literally impossible for me to understand. A lot of you talk in this summed up, nickname type of way, and maybe I'm the only one, but it doesn't help at all

Mind elaborating what you mean... >.>

If you don't know what those are then you really need to get more familiar with your synth and the basics before trying complex sounds ;p If you are using massive these are all super easy.

crypticdub wrote:

Omniclad wrote:

jonahmann wrote:There's this thread.

Try:
Sub osc, complex wave, second complex wave +1 oct
LP or formant filter, automated
Sample and hold / bitcrusher
30ms delay w/ feedback

EDIT: I also found Massive's step sequencer gives a computerised sound.

That first line under 'Try', is literally impossible for me to understand. A lot of you talk in this summed up, nickname type of way, and maybe I'm the only one, but it doesn't help at all

Mind elaborating what you mean... >.>

If you don't know what those are then you really need to get more familiar with your synth and the basics before trying complex sounds ;p If you are using massive these are all super easy.

In OPs defense, it wasn't written in a clear way in certain parts of the suggestion.

And idk about that particular synth sound but if you want a clean sub you definitely don't want to build that into the same patch as the bass patch..

Honestly no one on here knows or anyone that has gotten close is going to tell you m8. That thread above was stupid and had no info.... If you want to really know then i highly recommend you to look at a massive manual and learn what the wavetables sound like. Datsik likes the wavetable disto from what ive herd, also he says himself use the phaser in the mod osc and mess around with that. Slap an lfo on anything and everything you can also one other thing is he resamples like any other artist so look into that.

If your talking about real robotic sounds look at the scoring of transformers. Everything is foley or resampled in some sense so once again mess around with that stuff.



Be patient and seriously mess around with anything and sooner or later you'll get something close or make your own sound even though thats such a cliche statement ahahh.

Omniclad wrote:

jonahmann wrote:There's this thread.

Try:
Sub osc, complex wave, second complex wave +1 oct
LP or formant filter, automated
Sample and hold / bitcrusher
30ms delay w/ feedback

EDIT: I also found Massive's step sequencer gives a computerised sound.

That first line under 'Try', is literally impossible for me to understand. A lot of you talk in this summed up, nickname type of way, and maybe I'm the only one, but it doesn't help at all

Mind elaborating what you mean... >.>

First oscillator
Sine wave

Second oscillator
non-sine wave

Third oscillator
non-sine wave
Pitched up one octave

Either play that down two octaves from middle C or pitch the oscillators down two octaves.

As was added, you can set up the sine wave in a separate synth, and use the remaining oscillator to play a non-sine wave up two octaves.

Awesome. Perfect. Thanks!