I need serious help with basslines

[u mad son?]

Imma bout to lose my mind with this shyt, everytime I think i have a good beat coming on, it comes to the bassline and i lose it lol. Whether its 808s or just more retro type basslines i just cant do it. The shyt will never be in tune with the sample, or it comes out too simple. Im trynna youtube shyt and all i get is cornballs making corny basslines like its hot.

Please bless me with any kinda tips you got for basslines or VSTs, anything to help.



im trynna get something similar to this atm

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

sometimes the sample already has a good bassline within it. clone it and filter it to only be the bass. you can also do that to tracks that have a good bass line but you might not want the other stuff that comes with it.

i struggle with the bass lines too though when i'm trying to play it all out myself. i dont know what the fukk i'm doing

 

[b33lz]

Find bass tone spread it across the keys/pads 16 levels.
Or get trilian bass vst.
Watch Kev Brown cook up a beat from scratch 32min mark he adds the bass

 

[b33lz]

Check out Jfilt's videos

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Find bass tone spread it across the keys/pads 16 levels.
Or get trilian bass vst.
Watch Kev Brown cook up a beat from scratch 32min mark he adds the bass

Kev Brown switch to software to. Never expected that to happen though. LOL

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Check out Jfilt's videos

What i still don't understand is the fact they don't make software that takes out the keys/notes that aren't used in the scale you use.

 

[b33lz]

What i still don't understand is the fact they don't make software that takes out the keys/notes that aren't used in the scale you use.

Ableton does

 

[Charlie]

What i still don't understand is the fact they don't make software that takes out the keys/notes that aren't used in the scale you use

Maschine does

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Maschine does

Seriously? That makes Maschine a serious candidate for me to buy i'm thinking now! I would love that.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

Anybody knows if FL Studio can do this to?

 

[u mad son?]

Maschine does

wow thats dope, i copped the mpc studio instead and am kind of regretting it now

 

[Charlie]

wow thats dope, i copped the mpc studio instead and am kind of regretting it now

Seriously? That makes Maschine a serious candidate for me to buy i'm thinking now! I would love that.

Yeah it has several different scales majors minors jazz yiddish Japanese etc. shyt is dope.
Maschine didnt always have the ability. Happened in like the 2.0 update I believe.

But yeah, to me Maschine is better than MPC in many ways. I made my first beats on fruity loops when I was a kid, so Im not one of those MPC guys. When I wanted some hardware the integration of hardware and software in the Maschine was a natural progression for someone coming from the software world.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I first wanted to get the MP Ren cause they said the 2 could do the same and the sampler looked doper to me and it has an Audio Interface.
But after all it was Maschine that was winning for most producers.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

BTW those plugins below can do the trick like Scaler can in Ableton. I just don't have a MIDI-Keyboard so i can't use it i guess???
Anybody familiar with those?

KVR Forum: Piz MIDI Plugins (Topic in the 'Insert Piz Here' forum)

 

[street heat]

you can make basslines on any bass vst easily, its all about your ear.

put a low pass filter on your sample so you can only hear the bass, then put the same filter on your bass vst.

then simply play back what you hear.... this works best in headphones so you can really get the notes right. you should be able to tell when its the right note and when its clashing. when youre done put a high pass on the sample to remove the bass and use your own. once youve got the notes you can freak it any way you want.