Sound creation help
- citrullus
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citrullus
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to make a sound in FL Studio. Can anyone help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ3iRukOpbk
I'm trying to re-create that bass that comes in around the 31 second mark. It's the dominant bass and it sounds like an envelope was used for it to start quiet then get louder.
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Hi.
Could be wrong, but this bass sound and many other in the song sound very much like a good old tb-303 to me, with that trademark slide/accented sound, and a bit of distortion.
It's all the same note, but the slide make the note longer and give the impression that there is an short enveloppe on resonance (which is probably the case XD) and that particular sound.
It's like first note has short duration, second note has slide attribute/maybe accent attribute, third note is short etc
Do you have fruity loops (sry "FL Studio")? You could use tb 404 or 3x osc, use a LP/LP2 filter, adjust cutoff, and apply enveloppe on res, backed with a distortion in FX, slight reverb to put it in the background and some EQ to get the tone right.
I have recently purchased phoscyon with emulates the tb 303, because of those rather unique sounding accent/slide filters that aren't easy to create (at least for me).
On paper it is... You need a square or saw wave,some LP filter, but those slide and accent are the hard part to simulate properly. Proof is the number of clones on the market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Overdriven_TB303_Patterns_varying_resonance.ogg
(this one sounds a bit like your bass minus the fx)
Good luck, have fun.
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LOL writting my answer i forgot the part where you mentionned FL Studio. What a fool.
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I have never used the t404 inside FL Studio but that seems like a really good place to start. Those are very good suggestions. Thank you so much for the information I'll see where it lands me. ^_^

