Elektron-Users

Hi all,

This box can really rip!

First dubstep bass I'm happy with out of my Monomachine:
http://snd.sc/dIgwVK

Full disclosure: I was aiming to emulate "Mutants" by Liquid Stranger. So if the bassline sounds familiar, uh, that's why. I find trying to copy tracks that are really great is always a huge learning experience....

If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll make a SYSEX dump of the kit+pattern.
(edit: see below)

well made! I've been struggling to make bass like this, a sysex or just a parameter list would be really cool! what machine did you use?

nice! An FM machine as sound source? reverb machine (2?) and compression on this... expand!

I don't produce dubstep but there have been at least a half-dozen posts about "how do I make a wobble" here at the forum over the last year. So yes there's definitely some interested parties here on the forum for a share.

Just for a guessing game fun, I am going to say it's not FM but rather one of the other machines. It sounds to me like you have some pretty decent filter+resonance on it, and you are modulating that to get your wobble. This is a wild-a55 guess but I'll say SID machine. Who else wants to take a guess?

Wewt! Great bass there. Not sure why some people hate on the way the MnM sounds. Always have loved it, never have owned one. Any possibilities of doing this with just a regular MD? I don't own a UW, so sampling's out of the question.

Will be listening to this jam and tweaking my MD all evening now

Arright, I've zipped up syx for the kit + pattern.

151.5 BPM. The .5 IS SUPER IMPORTANT.

In case you're curious, here's a rundown of the design:

Track 1 is a Pulse with enough Sub 1 to get the distortion to kick in.

HP filter is set to ride on the suboctave (base val of 8), with key-tracking enabled, and resonance cranked.

LP filter is not key-tracked, but gets swept by LFO 1 to get a nice wobble. Key track is off to keep the LP filter wobble frequency more "stable" as a backdrop to the jumping pitches.

Track 2 uses a double draw machine because it lets you mix between a tri or a sine wave as an additional "clean" subbass. Track 2 is driven by the trigs in track 1, and track 1 is transposed +12 to maintain the high / low octave relationship.

Track 3 is a verb "send" that's pulling from the two basses.
LFO 1 slightly modulates the decay of the verb to break up static resonances in the tail (this only partly successful).
LFO 2 adds a slight fast autopan to the reverb.
LFO 3 adds a fake "sidechain" envelope to the verb's amplitude.


Track 5 is a simple BBOX breakbeat rhythm that's playing a halftime feel.


I'm super curious to play around some more with the SID and FM machines for different bass sounds, but I went straight for the square since it's a great starting point.

Thanks for the share mate your a star, will give me incentive to get off my back side and have a jamb with elektron twins Did not think it was a 3 machine bass high level programming dude, this will make me start digging deeper in multiple machine sounds I think

thank you for sharing...this is the forum at it's best.

*wobbles over to monomachine*

peace

Man...

Been sitting here all night tweaking with my MD and there's no way I've found to get something this bad ass! Me = going nuts.