How do you make a bass drop??

neanderfool · Post by **neanderfool** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:19 pm

The only example I can think of from the top my head is in custard chucker by caspa where the bass falls down, I used to be able to do it but I stopped producing a year ago and have only just got back into it, having to learn all over again.

vonboyage · Post by **vonboyage** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:52 pm

I was thinkin that the other day...

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:09 pm

you need a vst where you can assign a mod envelope to the pitch off the wave, then draw in how you want it to drop.

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:14 pm

First you have no bass.
Then you make a little build up however you like.
Then you put some bass in.

Citrus Boy · Post by **Citrus Boy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:20 pm

yeah it's called a divebomb bass or sumthing like that..

There's a tutorial in computer music I saw few months ago.

I'll have look see if I can find the mag.

thump rat · Post by **thump rat** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:26 pm

Use a pitch envelope on it. If you have fruity you can pogo a bass sample to get a similar effect.

neanderfool · Post by **neanderfool** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:37 pm

Borg wrote:yeah it's called a divebomb bass or sumthing like that..

There's a tutorial in computer music I saw few months ago.

I'll have look see if I can find the mag.

Yeah that sounds very appropiately named, nice one if you can find the mag

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:05 pm

Jubscarz wrote:you need a vst where you can assign a mod envelope to the pitch off the wave, then draw in how you want it to drop.

then export that and load the sound into a sampler... instant high contrast bassline

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:29 pm

assigning an lfo to control pitch is the easiest way

tenbucc2 · Post by **tenbucc2** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:16 pm

what software are you using?

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:18 am

Yeah. Pitch bend controls.

Without knowing what sequencer or what synth you're using it's impossible to give you advice

In Kontakt, for instance, you set the pitch bend modulator to 12 semitones and then you can bend the base 2 octaves with the pitch control.

Another alternative is to set your synth to mono and adjust the glide control and then hit the top note and while holding it hit the bottom note that you want to land on, then adjust the glide control so that it makes the gap in the time that you want it to go through. By automating your synth, you can alter your instrument real time, so that you can be using it w/o glide or with glide set to an instant setting and then adjust the glide to make a bass drop. Or just sample the bass drop and then use the wav in your sequencer.

neanderfool · Post by **neanderfool** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:28 am

Yeah posting software would help, i'm using albino synth and project 5 sequencer, i'll have a crack and some of the methods posted on here and see how that pans out.

squeaky · Post by **squeaky** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:23 pm

i'm trying to figure out how to do this as well.
i'm using albino at the moment.
my method before has been to just create a dive in Renoise (tracker i use)
with pattern effect sliding down.
but would like to do this just with a synth alone.

have tried methods suggested above, but results are quite poor.
any help with fine tuning this, would be much appreciated. . . thx

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:29 pm

Yhes ive only been able to make a few Reason instruments with a bass drop but can't seem to get more variation in the drop, would be wonderful for tutorial!

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:16 pm

pitch envelope and filer envelope to do a nice to 1 bar silence then go in full force

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:02 am

Going to try this out right now will let you know how it comes along!

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:46 am

Jhaa good outcomess, been messin with mod A pitch and filter envelope, cheers for the tutorial!

corpu5 · Post by **corpu5** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:03 am

For massive users, to acheive that 'dive bomb bass' sound, just make a normal sine wave bass, and modulate the pitch of the oscillator with an lfo with a slow ratio (ie drop the lfo onto the pitch box and change the number to like -12 or somthing) and there you go bludlings! easy peasy

osky · Post by **osky** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:38 pm

dont u mean a hoover bass?

for albino3;
what i do is get the sub bass sound i want. go down to the bottom right where u can click on 'rate' or 'time'. select bend (just to the left of the rate/time thing) and then put the number higher and it shud bend the pitch down.

not very clear of the top of my head im not looking at albino now but hope it helped if u use the vst

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