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Help with Reese Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:58 am
by lhd
So I'm trying to learn how to make Reese bass in either Rapture or Reason. I watched a tutorial using three different Maelstrom synths thats actually really helpful. However, I can't get all three of the fuckers to play at one time! This guy used a combinator to connect them all somehow but he doesn't show you how to set up everything. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know how to get three synths to run at once like that. Anybody got a walk-through on this for me?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:08 am
by DZA
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:28 am
by lhd
nowaysj wrote:Widdler's psycho skank playing with your sig ^^ is pure comedy.
This ^^ I don't understand? However, I will say MUWHAHAHAHAHA!!
Thanks for the turorial link b/c that was all I needed. I'll have tracks out on Hyperdub by the end of the week now! hehe
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:23 am
by DZA
nowaysj wrote:Widdler's psycho skank playing with your sig ^^ is pure comedy.
Re: Help with Reese Bass
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:22 am
by back to bassics
LHD wrote:So I'm trying to learn how to make Reese bass in either Rapture or Reason. I watched a tutorial using three different Maelstrom synths thats actually really helpful. However, I can't get all three of the fuckers to play at one time! This guy used a combinator to connect them all somehow but he doesn't show you how to set up everything. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know how to get three synths to run at once like that. Anybody got a walk-through on this for me?
Niiiiice reese here - really helped me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqhyrELwGI
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:31 am
by lhd
thanks again for the help. I posted what I'm workin on in the thread for what i'm workin on. Imagine that!
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:48 pm
by gravity
detuned saw waves played low down and distortion. then you can go mad with processing and filters if you want.
technically a proper reese sound is made with pulse waves and pwm then lowpassed. but thats not what most people would refer to as a reese these days (i.e. mid rangey distorted noise) - more deep hooever sub drone (most obvious example is ray kieth - terrorist. originally from some techno tune by kevin saunderson)
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:19 pm
by deadly_habit
gravity wrote:detuned saw waves played low down and distortion. then you can go mad with processing and filters if you want.
technically a proper reese sound is made with pulse waves and pwm then lowpassed. but thats not what most people would refer to as a reese these days (i.e. mid rangey distorted noise) - more deep hooever sub drone (most obvious example is ray kieth - terrorist. originally from some techno tune by kevin saunderson)
no pulse wave and pwm is a hoover
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:10 pm
by phosphor
make a basic reese with a bit of movement (lfo's and such)
draw out a long note and bounce it, load it up in a sampler
high pass to take out the bottom end (up to about 100 hz)
split into a couple different frequency ranges
apply appropriate effects to each band
buss back together and layer with a sine sub playing the same note
from there, you can modulate etc. or even resample and fuck with it more
here is an example i made in reason...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ph4dqj
Re: Help with Reese Bass
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:55 pm
by miscreant
LHD wrote:So I'm trying to learn how to make Reese bass in either Rapture or Reason. I watched a tutorial using three different Maelstrom synths thats actually really helpful. However, I can't get all three of the fuckers to play at one time! This guy used a combinator to connect them all somehow but he doesn't show you how to set up everything. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know how to get three synths to run at once like that. Anybody got a walk-through on this for me?
Create a line mixer, then create the 3 malstroms, then take the outs of the 3 malstroms and put them into the line mixer (effect and eq each one as you please). THEN combine the malstroms and take the output of the line mixer into the combinator. When you play the combinator it will now play all 3 of the malstroms.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:32 pm
by caeraphym
Detuned saw waves, lots of them.
Filter as you deem appropriate, as mentioned above somewhere it's well worth taking the bottom out of it and layering a sine sub line underneath to help fatten it out a bit
Whack it through some modulation effects to add some movement to the sound, phaser, flanger, chorus.
Compress together, resample, BANG! and the Reese is done.
Re: Help with Reese Bass
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:35 pm
by shift
LHD wrote:This guy used a combinator to connect them all somehow but he doesn't show you how to set up everything. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know how to get three synths to run at once like that.
create a combinator then inside that create a mixer, then create 3 malstroms and draw your midi notes in the "combinator" section on the sequencer then it will play all 3 malstroms...........i really wish they would make a vsti of malstrom...i fucking love that synth
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:08 pm
by gravity
Deadly Habit wrote:gravity wrote:detuned saw waves played low down and distortion. then you can go mad with processing and filters if you want.
technically a proper reese sound is made with pulse waves and pwm then lowpassed. but thats not what most people would refer to as a reese these days (i.e. mid rangey distorted noise) - more deep hooever sub drone (most obvious example is ray kieth - terrorist. originally from some techno tune by kevin saunderson)
no pulse wave and pwm is a hoover
oh yeah thats right, pwm on a saw. cant do that with most things though, was an old juno they used originally i think.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:40 pm
by futures_untold
Gotta quote myself here.....
futures_untold wrote:For the benifit of clarity, I'd like to point out that hoovers and reeses are regularly confused, mixed up and identified wrongly.
Hoover = pulse wave + pulse width modulation, maybe some pitch bend on the attack portion of the sound
Reese = saw waves, oscillator
detune + low pass filter
Compare
Hoover against
Reese
Perhaps heavily distorted Reeses begin to sound like Hoovers, but if you try to distort a real Hoover, it will sound like shit.
As an aside, using phase modulation can achieve some pretty tasty hoover sounds too
(Just letting off steam... That shit vexxes me immensly haha! I need to get out more.)
Aaaaaargh! (Stabs himself in the eye)