Thanks for the explanation. I always wonder what they mean by snappy! Now I get it, as I rare listen to this genre. Judging from the track above, i believe everything must be super snappy! (Too snappy for me).Gamma-UT wrote:I've clipped a very short sample from Ajja's Bebopper and isolated one bass hit as well as a single k-b-b-b beat with only minimal background FX (a short spy-squelch on the third and fourth of the 16th notes). The waveform is below. I look at that and wonder whether that's straight out of a synth or has made a small diversion via a sampler or it's been printed and aligned in the DAW's own timeline.
Either way, careful use of phase for the waveform seems to be the key to this one much more than envelope shape in order to get the hard attack from the falling sawtooth waveform at the beginning of each note (and possibly without an ultrafast attack looking at the height of that first peak). My guess is a short release for the final full cycle so that the bass mostly gets out of the way for the next hit, using some very careful control over MIDI timing if it's done straight from the synth.
Full track:
Although I have noticed that some synths have fast attack, but personally I like it less snappy with slower tempo but that would make it Disco I guess
