looking to develop new bass sound after chordbot chord sound.

[kivadour]

Hello,

I don't know if this question would be better in 3 or 4 other forum headings.

If you think it would be better somewhere else in KVR please let me know.

I am trying to get an optimum synth bass sound from this simple riff.
The riff is inspiring because of its deft soundfont design by the designers of the chordbot app.

Lars and his partner did alot with a little with this app.

You can even export the MIDI file.

Trouble is it doesn't reproduce as well in a DAW as it does native inside the app.

So I want to perhaps start off with this lo-fi riff in a song and then have the bass come in but have it be instinctually/intuitively sounding like its an optimum match.

https://soundcloud.com/plasmacarwash/fm ... iff-040919

I am leaning toward a hardware sounding synth bass but with software or even a sample.

...Hi quality and malleable because I want to reflect three essential tone characteristics for this unique bass sound and not just play with a sweep sound for the bass.

Kinda of a Jamie Jamerson Quincy jones bass with matching production quality.

I saw this video "FL Studio: How to make a bass sound from a sample" and thought that this forum might be the right one to air this Q out.



However the end product in the video had too many frequencies missing to manipulate with satisfaction.

Well I've talked long enough.

Any help would be great on this.

Then I could take any info and apply it to my working style in the future!

Thank you very much.

Kiva

[SoundPorn]

I'm not exactly sure what you're the question is and that video pissed me off because the guy should have just used a lo-pass filter instead of a parametric equal, smh.

But if the question is how to turn that sample from Soundcloud into a bass, then yes you just pitch it down an octave or 2, you'll want the fundamental to be around 100hz, unless you're going for a sub bass sound, then you want to pitch it even lower.

Then you want to take a low pass filter and filter off the high end. I like to have some resonance on the filtering to and make it dirtier sounding. Then you want to saturate and compress the hxll out of it with several different plugins until you're having too much fun. Using a bass amp plugin works too. I do this alot and use various free Air Windows plugins to add tape saturation and sub harmonics while rolling off top end. You also want to make it mono, or in my case I use M/S capable plugins to boost the mids and filter out the sides.

[kivadour]

Hey thanks soundporn,

Is there a plug-in that can analyze the sound to better inform the software phase of extracting "sub harmonics" as you say?
I am using a Macbook with Logic Pro X.

I like the chain you described.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Kiva