Droppin bass sound, how?

[afriquedeluxe]

ive heard alot of them in r'n'b joints, am wondering how do they do that bass sound that kinda drops down a few notes and then backup?

 

[Loose Cannon]

I'm not sure i know wut you mean. But if it is wut i think, then it could be them pitch bend or effects wheels. I know you seen them. Theyre on the left of the keys usually.



Im havin trouble loading a pic right now, so heres the link:

http://www.korg.com/gear/images/products/enlarge/lrg_microKORG.jpg

Its the korg microkorg, just look to the left of the keys. I used this once, it might be wut your talkin about.

 

[Ash Holmz]

u prooly got one on ur keyboard ...

 

[afriquedeluxe]

nah i aint got dat wheel

 

[afriquedeluxe]

heres an example
http://www.afriquedeluxe.com/misc_/drop bass.mp3

i aint got a pitch bender tho

 

[Copenhagen]

Afrique, you wrote the address to your ftp...

I think the effect your referring to is simply the pitch bender you'll see on most keyboards.

Cope'

 

[afriquedeluxe]

i also fixed da link

cope how can it be dun in reason, shud i try messin with the pitch bender on da subtractor?

 

[Copenhagen]

yeah, you can record the pitch bend into your song whilst playing, or draw it in in the sequencer...

 

[afriquedeluxe]

i just cant quite get the same effect, i tried recordin it and it just doesnt sound rite

 

[Copenhagen]

it's probably hard to record it, without having an actual external pitch bend...how about drawing it...can't remember how it's done in the sequencer, apart from the fact that it's around the same place where the velocity is shown.
It's hard to tell from your snippet, but it sounds like the bass goes down for the first approx. 1/3 of the bas lenght and then quickly up...

 

[afriquedeluxe]

errm da pitch bend aint workin as i thought it wud, its bound by a few notes, it doesnt reach dat high, i hav to draw it in the matrix but the accuracy only goes to 64, i need higher for the effect, cuz i can do it using the mouse to scroll up den down da keys in da matrix

 

[afriquedeluxe]

heres what i made in the attempt (its a reason file)
http://www.afriquedeluxe.com/misc_/drop bass.rns

 

[maddogg]

that sounds like a turntable stop effect to me..

 

[jnxe]

umm, all you have to do is play another key with less velocity, on my moog it has a 'glide' function to automatically pitch bend notes more smoothly into eachother. you can also set the pitchbend wheel to be less responsive in most programs to emulate playing a diff key or switching octave's

 

[bigdmakintrax]

What you are looking for is a nicely edited portamento from a synth bass or lead.....