Natural sounding bass synth?!?

Unitar · Post by **Unitar** » Tue May 14, 2002 11:34 pm

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a device that can produce a natural bass sound. Any tips? I'm sequencing the bass tracks with Cakewalk and I've been using Celmo's Goofy bass synth for playback. It's great but doesn't work for complex bass riffs with wide note range. I need something with the real instruments charisma. Help!

Eurocide · Post by **Eurocide** » Wed May 15, 2002 12:58 am

If you want an imitation of real sounding basses you have to use good samples.
I can recommend "AKAI Will Lee's Bass Library".
A variety of multisampled acoustic and electric basses.
It worked very fine on a rock production.
But attention, they don't sound too fat in the first place. A bit of tweaking is needed.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed May 15, 2002 1:23 am

Real bass will either be the real thing or a sampler. Otherwise in the synth bass realm I like Celmo's other synths, the BassmannIII, Deep Blue or Supreme. The Lightwave can do reasonably "real" basses, and for synth bass the Prisma is a good choice. For dirty bass try the free DubSub or DubSubII.

ronaldmeij · Post by **ronaldmeij** » Wed May 15, 2002 2:05 am

Go for marcus miller bass legends.
verry nice quality and great collection of nice bass sounds

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed May 15, 2002 5:12 am

agree!
bass legends and will lee!

calippo · Post by **calippo** » Wed May 15, 2002 5:43 am

I like the SOUNDSCAN Volume 6: Electric & Acoustic Bass. Very Cheap (38 Euros) and excellent upright basses.
http://www.usbsounds.com/usb/exec/editor?editID=SS

castol · Post by **castol** » Wed May 15, 2002 7:06 am

http://www.creamware.de/en/products/noa ... uments.asp

a demo (some say sorry) of the noah and the bass models.

http://trio.harmony-central.com/ramgen/ ... 02/Noah.rm

not availible yet, is assumed shortly following this that card users will have access to these plug-ins.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed May 15, 2002 7:09 am

There are some very nice bass samples with NI's new sampler, Kontakt

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Wed May 15, 2002 7:54 am

Send me a chart and i'll play 'em 4 ya

Unitar · Post by **Unitar** » Thu May 16, 2002 11:10 pm

Thanks for all the info but I'm still not getting anywhere!

I'm gonna use a real bass for the final production but when writing songs I use midi sequencing and I need something that would sound close to the real thing. All the synths I have tried so far sound good on only a very limited note range. Am I missing something? I have never used a sampler so can anyone give an example on how to setup a nice free one to play back my bass midi tracks? I think I have the STS3000 but never tried it.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Fri May 17, 2002 3:20 pm

Well, try it, it's a very good sampler to start with, and more.