I suck, please help
 

Ok guys, I suck royally bad at doing anything with my Virus. I am sure it can do the kinds of sounds I am after, I am just lost in doing so.

Can anyone help me get the crazy bass sounds like in the following track? Check out from 0:27s and on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3vI...eature=related

ANY help would be much appreciated. This is a typical type of sound found in dubstep and dnb steps. Once I get an understanding of how it works I would like to modify it to my liking. Just need a major stepping stone thrown my way.

Thanks guys.

Andrew

You may try to put your virus outputs to this plugin. :)
(demo version is available to download)

1/ For the grit sound to it you can try saturating the filters with the rectifier, make sure you use a single saw and maybe a sub osc to give it little beef not too much though because you don't it to steal too much power from the original osc.

2/ For that wub wub effect in dubsteb, usually an lfo is used to modulate a low pass filter usually a synced one. In this case it sounds like they've automated the sync rate and the lfo amount so not only it goes from not being modulated at all to being fully modulated, but it speeds up in a synced manner to the track.

Thanks for the help, very appreciated. I will really have to fool around to get myself sorted with this stuff. I really like that sound but found it impossible to re-create.

Would i be wrong to presume the LFO shape to be saw?

that is a sick tune...

Sine or triangle I would say.

If it was a saw it would be more of a gating effect than the "wub wub" effect.

my guess is that FM has a lot to do with it (as in, it's an FM synth creating the lead/s)... happy to be corrected, though...

Just got a chance to listen to this. I'm pretty sure this is done using dBlue Glitch, a free VST.
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1904.html


-Annikk

I have dbblue Glitch. Can you please share what exactly is being done using Glitch to make that sound? If you could, or anyone could for that matter try and whip up a simulation of that sound and upload it, I would be very, very impressed and grateful.

I don't really know to be honest. :S I have heard that type of effect before though, and a friend whose opinion i trust assured me dblue glitch is the source...

Check out "Bubblin in the Cut" by Boreta here, you'll hear a similar thing going on.


-Annikk

Thanks a lot for all the replies. I will have to delve further into all the suggestions to see what I can come up with.

One thing you could try on the Virus:

Make a base sound using LP filters with a moderate amount of filter resonance and a cutoff set somewhere below half, then applying the following:

1. Add modulator: Mod Wheel -> ~35 -> LFO2>Filter1CutoffFreq
2. Change LFO 2 shape to Triangle.
3. Set LFO 2 Clock to 1/4.

Now, by turning the "Rate" knob in the LFO section, you can adjust the LFO speed between 1/4, 1/8, 1/16th on the fly, and use the Mod Wheel to control how much the LFO affects the filter frequency.

This should hopefully get you somewhere in the region of where you want to be to make this type of sound. :>


-Annikk