Abot sub bass layer.

[Violet]

So,

Do you guys use sub bass as part of each particular sound you make (for example one of three oscillators would be a sub bass), or do you have just one track for sub bass and modulate it in accordance with the rest of the bassline?

[Electric_Head]

Separate sub bass.

[Maxxan]

Separate, all the way. No point in trying to match volumes and signal-splitting every single sound when a sub is always a sub anyway. There is one exception for me though, that's when I modulate the pitch on a sound, like a growl. Then I'll clone the patch and then replace one of the with a pure sub, and then link both pitches to the same automation so the sub has the same movement as the other sound.

[Kilo beats]

personally what i do is i find a bass sample or something that could be used as a bass sample (lots of low end). i make sure it is playing a long note (about 8 seconds long), then i use a free plugin called engineers filter to sharply remove all frequency's in the sub domain, then i break out massive to add a single sine wave with no effects / processing to layer under the sample.

once i have the original sample with the sub cut out, and my own added sub bass ill bounce that down and chuck in a sampler to play like an instrument. this is what i did with the track in my sig and i think it sounds alright. but of course it depends on what your going for