Jungle Bass synth
Mr Sedrhat Momen
Does any one know how to get those mashed-up jungle bass noises - Is it
just bass samples backwards with loads of expensive sampler bizziness
or is there a particular synth that would be good for it ? How
would the bass-station be for jungle ? Thanks.
Respect,
Udjat
Jon Drukman
In article <Dr50q...@liverpool.ac.uk>, medu...@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr
Sedrhat Momen) wrote:
either use a tuned 808 kick drum (put an 808 kick drum on your sampler and
play it up and down the keyboard) or just a plain sine wave.
doesn't take much to do jungle.
oh yeah, a good compressor will help immensely...
John Sexton
medu...@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr Sedrhat Momen) wrote:
>Does any one know how to get those mashed-up jungle bass noises - Is it
>just bass samples backwards with loads of expensive sampler bizziness
>or is there a particular synth that would be good for it ? How
>would the bass-station be for jungle ? Thanks.
Anything that produces a sine wave like a DX-100 which sells used for
$99 can be used for jungle bass. Just make an envelope that gives it a
long steady decay. For the reverse bass stuff you'll probably need a
sampler though. You could sample an 808 kick, since its not much more
than a sine wave with a percussive attack, time expand it and reverse
it. A sampler is probably the best bet all around for jungle though so
you can drop in loads of breakbeats and ragga samples and whatever and
most samplers have a sine wave as a test tone like the Akai's. If not
808 samples are everywhere and can be used forward and backwards for
all kinds of stuff.
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David Gosnell
medu...@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr Sedrhat Momen) wrote:
>Does any one know how to get those mashed-up jungle bass noises - Is it
>just bass samples backwards with loads of expensive sampler bizziness
>or is there a particular synth that would be good for it ? How
>would the bass-station be for jungle ? Thanks.
People will probably want to flame me for saying this, but I understand
that jungle really started off using the Amiga, which was great for
sequencing quite gritty samples together, using software such as OctaMED,
could also drive MIDI gear where necessary. Second-hand Amigas you should
be able to pick up dead cheap, though try and get one of the later models
which had more "chip-ram" memory available for sound samples. Sample
sequencing software is either free or very cheap. It's how I started out
back in about 1988, now is that a good or a bad thing..?
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Soundwave [Chad Gould]
Mr Sedrhat Momen (medu...@liverpool.ac.uk) wrote:
: Does any one know how to get those mashed-up jungle bass noises - Is it
: just bass samples backwards with loads of expensive sampler bizziness
: or is there a particular synth that would be good for it ? How
: would the bass-station be for jungle ? Thanks.
Some of it is bass samplers backwards. A lot of it is DX-100 sounds,
which can do pretty mashed up things when you program it right (it's a
4-op sine wave FM synth)...
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Soundwave [Chad Gould] (cgo...@gate.net) wrote:
: Mr Sedrhat Momen (medu...@liverpool.ac.uk) wrote:
: : Does any one know how to get those mashed-up jungle bass noises - Is it
: : just bass samples backwards with loads of expensive sampler bizziness
: : or is there a particular synth that would be good for it ? How
: : would the bass-station be for jungle ? Thanks.
:
: Some of it is bass samplers backwards. A lot of it is DX-100 sounds,
: which can do pretty mashed up things when you program it right (it's a
: 4-op sine wave FM synth)...
probably the most used sub bass sound is the test tone on the akai
samplers - these are very popular among junglists, the charateristic
time stretch function found on the s950 and up is also another common
jungle effect.
the bass station might get you somewhere near the ballpark,
but your best bet is a sine wave pitched down, perhaps layered with
some other sample (heavily lp-filtered kick drum, etc.) to give you some
attack if that's what you're looking for. experimenting with amplitude,
pitch envelopes can produce interesting results if you are looking for
something other than a kick drum/808-type sound.
it doesn't take a super-expensive sampler to do this - we are
talking about a sample that is extremely short, like one or two cycles.
find an appropriate loop point and you are halfway there.
chris
hak@nynex
Juno 60 .I have many junglist friends (professional) who use these and
some times SH 101 with the resonance all the way up , no env to filter
cutoff controls freq and no osc. on.