Tips on making some bass sounds

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Looking for some tips on how to make two similar bass sounds

One here, around 0:38



And another here, around 5:10



Sounds like filter sweeps to me, but I feel like there’s more to it. It also reminds me of a Reese bass, but not quite.

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BASS.zip
Open this preset in Vital and you'll see how it's done.
Basically it's a bandpass on a supersaw moving up n down and a 2nd layer for the sub but I put all into one preset for efficiency but I would make it in two separate synths and channels
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Last edited by CHOOS on Sun Jun 19, 2022 2:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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CHOOS wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:06 am BASS.zip
Open this preset in Vital and you'll see how it's dont.
Basically it's a bandpass on a supersaw moving up n down and a 2nd layer for the sub but I put all into one preset for efficiency but I would make it in two separate synths and channels
Yup, that's exactly it, thanks mate. Now to try doing it on the Microfreak.

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Hmmm can't help u there but if it has a bandpass filter and unison it shouldn't be too hard.

I've listened to a demo of one and it might be the first real synth I get if I can get some spare change for it
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It has bandpass. Not really unison in the way that Vital does it, but you can move over to the superwaves engine, and adjust the detune. I think it's 4 copies of the wave. Also if memory serves, if you don't turn on paraphonic mode, you get all 4 voices acting in unison, so it should work out pretty well I think.

As for you getting one, it's weird. I find it extremely versatile and limiting at the same time. If you can think of it, the microfreak can probably do at least a basic version of it, but the engines aren't as full featured as on many other synths, also only 4 voices.

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Hmmm yeah I might look for more re than 4 voices but then again I have zero analog gear apart from mics and haven't needed it yet.
There's a lot that can be done to make digital sound more analog and in a mix it's not very noticeable.
But something like Diva on its own can definitely sound just nicer than almost anything else in the digital realm
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Well Microfreak is already a digital synth, so you still wouldn’t have an analog synth. I will admit I didn’t know this when I bought it, but I’m not bothered by it at all. I already had Vital, among other more capable softsynths, they just weren’t clicking for me in the way that hardware synths do now

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Oh yeah there just simply is a difference.
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