great free bass exciter/deepener for soft synths?
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- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
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- 4558 posts since 21 Mar, 2020
Of course there's going to be a difference - it just depends upon how much "quality" you need and how that weighs up against cost. To snigger and sneer at freeware is unbelievably pompous. You spend your oodles of money how you wish but some of us are happy with freeware for the time being and a lot of it is actually extremely useable - it just takes a little more effort. You can make a masterpiece with children's toys if you have the patience and imagination.
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- KVRAF
- 4380 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
In my day we weren't even lucky enough to have toys. We had to make masterpieces out of rags and stale bread.
OP: how about Xfer OTT? Not for bass per se but still a chunky sound.
https://xferrecords.com/freeware
I second layzer's suggestion of IVGI.
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- KVRian
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- 766 posts since 18 Nov, 2010
Im not running down freeware, I use tons of it, this post is about freeware. Just wondering how to get the best tones from the freeware we have with freeware enhancers. Diva nails SOMETHING, how close can we get with free tools?Erisian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:17 pmOf course there's going to be a difference - it just depends upon how much "quality" you need and how that weighs up against cost. To snigger and sneer at freeware is unbelievably pompous. You spend your oodles of money how you wish but some of us are happy with freeware for the time being and a lot of it is actually extremely useable - it just takes a little more effort. You can make a masterpiece with children's toys if you have the patience and imagination.
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- KVRian
- 642 posts since 28 Oct, 2014
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- KVRAF
- 35439 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Why bother? This is like asking how you can pimp up your Dacia so that it performs like a Ferrari.
I can only say that I wasted so much time on inferior freeware that I wondered why I did it at all, when I started to buy good sounding payware. There's a reason why one is free, and the other costs hundreds of €.
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- KVRian
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- 766 posts since 18 Nov, 2010
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- KVRian
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- 766 posts since 18 Nov, 2010
I think I brought up Diva, as I own it. Just trying to see how close we can make freeware. Some of the new freewares do sound really great on their own these days, very beefy
- KVRAF
- 3897 posts since 28 Jan, 2011 from MEXICO
Saturation is what you need. You DAW may have usable saturation effects
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- KVRian
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- 766 posts since 18 Nov, 2010
tried a bunch and I keep circling back to this one. feels like it does bass harmonics really well, filling it out. but, it adds some slight bass garbage to higher up notes, but works well in bass.
X-CITA
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/x_cita_by_elogoxa
X-CITA
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/x_cita_by_elogoxa
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- KVRAF
- 3735 posts since 17 Sep, 2016
That got me curious, so I loaded up 'AZ_Bounce_Bass' in Repro5 and listened to that nice bass tone, which is basically one Repro5 saw oscillator run through a low pass filter. I turned off all effects and listened carefully and played with it a bit.wwjd wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:36 amdownloading R5 to see. just did tests of Diva against a couple other modern freeware synths - listening, watching spectrums, still cant put my finger on it... even adding more bass or using the enhancers increased the bass, but didn't make the same ROUND tone. Just u-he magic I guess.
R5: AZ BOUNCE BASS. I pulled up Diva, Repro5, Odin2, Surrealistic MG-1 and, I'm not a good programmer, but kinda dialed them in similar - not scientific at all, just ball park. Tried SURGE too but I don't know how to program it and it sounded too different.
Both Diva and Repro5 offered a more real tone than Odin and MG - granted they would ALL WORK PERFECT in any song. Will see if I can attach an audio file... ...nope... maybe drop box?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yl444l28liarg ... s.mp3?dl=0
Sound: 1- Diva, 2 - Repro5, 3 - Odin2, 4 - Surrealistic MG-1
I got the impression that the tone is shaped most by the filter. Not sure that you could achieve this with just effects, because the tone quality is due to the quality of the oscillator and filter interacting in the synth.
So I decided to see if this was a result of the u-he "special sauce", or something that any virtual analog could pull off. So I lined up a number of virtual analogs on hand to see if I could replicate this bass sound with the others. On each I started with an "init" patch and turned all effects off.
Well, out of all the synths that I tried, the only one that came very close to Repro5 for me was Waves Element_2. Maybe it was just me? But I don't think that copying a simple VA patch with one osc and filter is exactly rocket science...
The other synths tested were AAS Ultra Analog_VA-3, AIR Vacuum_Pro, Arturia Pigments_2, and SynthMaster_One.
Element_2 is not free, but can usually be found for a huge discount during Waves promotions. It's on sale this weekend for $29 with coupon. https://www.waves.com/plugins/element#f ... h-tutorial
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