drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Neurofunk Bassline Modulation? Neurofunk Bassline Modulation? Author Post jeffijoe xSky Registration Date: 15-06-2009 Posts: 241 Hey peeps. I can make some pretty sick sounds using 3x and a couple of FX, but I can't seem to find some good modulation rhythms, heck even the best sounding filter? I uploaded 3 samples of my bass to my server. Download them here: http://jeffijoe.com/JeffBass.zip My favorite is number 2, but I cant seem to find a good modulation sound. Any tips? Thanks. __ --- My Soundcloud --- Jeffijoe - Distance EP [CrossBase] 14-11-2010 20:30 Phalanx Chronologic Registration Date: 13-09-2007 Posts: 333 Helpfulness rating:  Try using the Ohmicide plugin for distortion. I like to flip through the presets to find something that sounds good, then add another distortion unit to the third band in the plugin. Then I play with the frequency crossover and adjust the settings so the sound modulates as I sweep it. I'll create an automation clip for the crossover and set a pattern I like. Then I'll adjust all the other parameters, notice their effect on the overall sound and automate those. After I'm done with Ohmicide I'll add on a Camelphat plugin, automate the distortion parameters (Mech distortion adds weight to the bottom end, Xcita adds high frequencies) I'll use Camelphat to add a notch filter and automate the cutoff, res and envelope parameters. By the end of a bounce I'll have about 10 automations, so I find it easier to process one or two notes at a time. That will also give you more diverse sounds when you compile your whole bassline. You can also split the bass into three bands- lows, mids and highs. The general rule is to compress the lows, add distortion/chorus/phasers to the mids and distort/reverb the highs. At this point you can use the bandpass filter in Camelphat to add some more movement within the layers. __ http://soundcloud.com/chronologic 14-11-2010 21:13 BattleDrone 2161... the future. Registration Date: 30-12-2005 Posts: 6,413 Helpfulness rating:  Some good advice by Phalanx... I always go for Camelphat and/or Tone2's Filterbank but I don't make the type of Neurofunk you are after I guess. I think the best way to keep this kind of very complex bassline-shit under total control is to make a lot of bass samples and then give them some bad ass Distortion/filter/LFO/Cut Off/... treatment and make more samples from those sample/FX combinations. When you have enough samples you can stick them in a tune and avoid having like 20 or more automations running at the same time which would make the whole thing very chaotic and CPU consuming. Just my 2 cents. __ Check my soundcloud (exclusive tracks on there) 14-11-2010 23:53 jeffijoe xSky Registration Date: 15-06-2009 Posts: 241 Thanks for the advice! I use both Ohmicide and Camelphat! So it's the Notch filter.. Should I use the MMFilter in CamelPhat for that? I guess this is the kind of sound I want to achieve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M87dx8gW_u0 BattleDrone, when did Image-Line remove that SPOR knob from 3x, grr?! __ --- My Soundcloud --- Jeffijoe - Distance EP [CrossBase] 15-11-2010 17:17 BattleDrone 2161... the future. Registration Date: 30-12-2005 Posts: 6,413 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by jeffijoe BattleDrone, when did Image-Line remove that SPOR knob from 3x, grr?! Probably in version 9 where they did a general fuckup of all other features. __ Check my soundcloud (exclusive tracks on there) 15-11-2010 18:35 jeffijoe xSky Registration Date: 15-06-2009 Posts: 241 quote: Originally posted by BattleDrone quote: Originally posted by jeffijoe BattleDrone, when did Image-Line remove that SPOR knob from 3x, grr?! Probably in version 9 where they did a general fuckup of all other features. I knew I shouldnt have upgraded from 8 to 9 then. How to you know which, and how to automate the knobs for a badassline? Should I do like Inside Info told me, and "just fuck around with a synth untill you got something "? __ --- My Soundcloud --- Jeffijoe - Distance EP [CrossBase] 16-11-2010 14:22 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Neurofunk Bassline Modulation?