how to make reggae sub-bass?

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Hiya fellas, I was wondering how to make a proper reggae sub-bass like youtube.com/watch?v=JUA9QzEvHo4 if anyone would know please?

This page says that pretty much any VSTi can do it but I beg to differ: http://www.interruptor.ch/dub_bass.shtml

Or maybe extreme LPF on MODO BASS could work but I would like to keep it digital: youtube.com/watch?v=i7kykVtPtVo

Thanks for any insight, Jah know!

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Try a demo of this, square wave and low pass filter to taste.
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-bassline-101

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Robbie Shakespeare used a wah pedal heel down (all the way back). Bill Laswell used an auto wah/envelope follower. Rude Boy Shufflin' sounds like an auto wah to me.

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The Yamaha PSS-680 FM synth used to do a decent job on sub bass with a little EQing. Shame it was so noisy (a high pitched background whine).
They can be had for very little these days: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256632370013 ... e01581f128
My first midi keyboard, back in the early 90's :)

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DMG68 wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 11:24 pm Try a demo of this, square wave and low pass filter to taste.
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-bassline-101
Came to recommend an SH-101 or emulator as well. For this era, it covers the bass(es).
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in terms of performance, you might need to overdub the triplets into a duplicate of the main channel. so you can quantize both the common time notes and the triplets and have it all sound good.

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