Software Emulation of the most important instruments in 'energized 90s Eurodance': ..
We need the following 'ingredients': ->
- Roland TR-909 Drum machine
- Lately Bass (Preset of Yamaha TX81z)
- Solid Bass (Preset of Yamaha DX100?)
- Leads (Saw and Square waves and those typical leads they used back then in 90s Eurodance)
- Strings & Pads (Simular like those ones of Roland Juno 106, Roland JV1080 etc.)
- Supersaw (That 'deeper' and rhythmic 'lead' sounds)
- Monster Bass (for Beat1 and Beat2 accents / like occured in "Its my life / Dr. Alban")
- E-Piano (mainly used for Rhythm and offbeat accents)
- Church Organ (for exotic intros)
- Accoustic Rhythm Guitar?
- Vocals emulation
any ingredients I've forgot?
.. looking for clean and crispy sounds So far I'm using: ..
-TR-909 Drums: A selection of various wave samples in Sitala Drum sampler (Samples: Soundworks+BPM Supreme etc) and the NTonyx 32MB Gm Stereo Soundfont with its TR-909 preset for some elements, like its Analog Kick, Crash and Percussion. (To emulate the soundfonts, Im using SFZ via JBridge in my 64bit Podium free DAW)
-Bass - TAL Bassline (SH-101) Emulation + Synth Basses of various soundfont banks, since I couldn't find any decent samples or VSTi's of Yamaha "Lately Bass or Solid Bass preset" sounds, that were satisfying my needs. Honestly, none of them I've tried, did sound even a bit close to the real hardware thing, no matter, with which reverb+echo delay plugins I've enhanced the sound and how I've tweaked it. If ive missed somethin, I hope someone can poste a quick guide here, on how to create a nice lately bass with a free "4 OP FM synth"+ which Effect plugin tweaks it requires, so that we can let sound our Lately basses at least a bit more authentic. (A clean and punchy sound at the same time would be great)
-Strings & Pads - Korg Wavestation and Poly 2106 (Carpet Pad Magic preset)
-Supersaw - Synth1+Eurodance Presets for the typical "Supersaw + Eurosaw" Sounds, we know from back then, in 1993-96.
-Church Organ 2nd VSTi (For creating nice exotic intros, like in "IceMC / Its a rainy day, or even "Prince Ital Joe Feat. Marky Mark - United")
-Leads (Lots of VSTi and Soundfonts I've tested here, like Podolski with Echo Delay effects and reverb, but never could find anything, that did sound authentic enough so far, nor could satisfy my needs..and I've tried a lot in combination with various echo delay and reverb effects) Please help with good suggestions, I want to improve this part for better arrangements & compositions.
-E-Piano (for Rhythm and offbeat accents) Korg M1, EP-Station, 4Front E-Piano, various Soundbanks with decent 90's E-Piano Sounds in it or Dexed* with Epiano Presets (*Yamaha DX7 Emulation)
-Roland R-8 'Reverse Cymbal' 16bit Wav Sample (Using it, by sliding the loudest part always to beat 1 and by cutting off the rest of its sample, to let come in a new part with a Crash, Kick etc.)
-Toms (Found that "MT Power Drum Kit VSTi" its Toms fitting quite well here)
-Effect Plugins: Olskoolverb, Ambience or EpicVerb, Tal Dub II, Loudmax, PanCake and some more I cant remember right now.
Well, although, lots of these mentioned selections might be good choices as for freebies, anyway, the weakest point of my ingredients are the Bass and Lead's part, which I urgently have to improve, to find again enough motivation to create new projects. Hope someone can help out..
... so what are u guys using?
Cool thx, that solid bass patch download for Dexed (below on page) seems useful indeed. I also found a Lately Bass preset elsewhere for Dexed, though, without a decent guide on how to recreate that punchy sound with various effects like, Reverb, Echo Delay, bit of Distortion, Saturation?, Compressor?, Equalizer?, Bass Amp?, Modulation?, Lo-Pass Hi-Pass Filter?, Exciter/Enhancer?, I feel like a treasure hunter without a map,