Monday, May 14, 2012

Dubstep bass sound design resources

There's so many brilliant synths, but its still hard to get the right sound? Yup. Why? Sound design is art, it takes skill and patience.

The following is a collection of resources that I find useful when thinking about designing timbres and sounds:

Rob Papen - Blade: This youtube video gives insight into using 96 sine partials to create a range of timbres. Rob explains pretty much exactly what each control of the generative section (called Harmolator or sum rubbish like that).

Risky Dub - Cinema Bassline (Skrillex): A 1 minute tutorial on using Massive to get the "Cinema" bassline timbre. Pretty awesome, the guy even finds time to talk.

Risky Dub - Timemwarp lead (Sub Focus): 2 minute tutorial on getting a pretty fat pitch-crazy lead

Risky Dub - Generic Electro Dub sounds: An 8 minute tutorial on basslines using massive. Multi purpose application of the sounds is possible, they're just heavy fat lead / bass timbres :)

Risky Dub - Doctor P / Flux Pavilion bass: Tutorial on getting that "vocal" bassline going, using Massive.

Nizmo Tutorials - Bass Canon (Flux Pavilion): Gives 7 minutes of heavy bassline madness, no explaination though.. just gotta follow the screenclicks.

Byzanite TV - Format filtering in Massive: Name says it all, make Skrillex, Borgore, and Flux your bitch.


That's all for now, but I'll probably post a couple more links as I find them!


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