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Rezz Lo-Fi Sounding Drop Bass
« on: June 08, 2016, 03:55:47 am »
https://soundcloud.com/mau5trap/rezz-edge-1

The drop at 0:42 has this kind of bit crushed sounding bass.
Any ideas on how to make something like it?

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Re: Rezz Lo-Fi Sounding Drop Bass
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2016, 11:41:56 am »
It's two layers essentially:

The first is a basic punchy sub rolling bass, I'm sure there are hundreds of tutorials on it so I won't get into it.

The other layer is that grit you mentioned. It's essentially a saw wave with an open filter & very high resonance, decay around 450ms and everything else 0 on the amp env, and then very heavy (very very heavy) bitcrushing added. The bitcrushing will essentially over-power most of the original synth, so things like oscillator choice will have limited effect.

The main thing to focus on when making that second layer is to create an open, 'talking' style basic synth that sounds like your generic dubstep talking basses, then bitcrush the hell out of it.

Add the two together and WAMBO!, you've got your synth.
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Re: Rezz Lo-Fi Sounding Drop Bass
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2016, 08:58:17 pm »
If you are using serum, (using a saw wave) make a pluck with the envelope, then go to your FX and use the downsampler option on the distortion. I usually use "pre" and tweak the filter. Also, the drive knob is what gives it a different tone. Really easy sound to make if you are using serum. You can add whatever else to make it sound cooler and such, but this is the basic idea.

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Re: Rezz Lo-Fi Sounding Drop Bass
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2016, 07:12:14 am »
It's two layers essentially:

The first is a basic punchy sub rolling bass, I'm sure there are hundreds of tutorials on it so I won't get into it.

The other layer is that grit you mentioned. It's essentially a saw wave with an open filter & very high resonance, decay around 450ms and everything else 0 on the amp env, and then very heavy (very very heavy) bitcrushing added. The bitcrushing will essentially over-power most of the original synth, so things like oscillator choice will have limited effect.

The main thing to focus on when making that second layer is to create an open, 'talking' style basic synth that sounds like your generic dubstep talking basses, then bitcrush the hell out of it.

Add the two together and WAMBO!, you've got your synth.

this is so fucking spot on, i used the same technique when i attempted to create a rezz inspired synth.
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Re: Rezz Lo-Fi Sounding Drop Bass
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2016, 08:12:27 pm »
ah fanx  ;D
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