Now let’s adjust the Arpeggiator settings. We don’t want any gaps in the arp MIDI signal. Now copy the Main Synth clip, select all the notes in the Piano Roll and click „Legato“. That’s because the MIDI signal (notes from our Piano Roll) will be taken through the Arpeggiator to modify them and then taken to Massive and then taken through our EQ and Chorus (it goes from left to right). Now I dragged an Arpeggiator effect from MIDI effects before the Massive device. I added an EQ Eight and a Chorus with Dry/Wet to almost 90% to cut out some frequencies and make the sound more stereo. Wavetable position to the middle (between Square and Saw) Let’s create new MIDI track, drag Massive over there and turn on the Init patch (you should be able to do that by now). Now we’ll add a very interesting element to the drop. Create a new clip (double click on a slot) and add a single note at the half of the bar (it will loop - the snare will always play in the same position) I chose a sample from one of our Future Bass sample packs which you can find here. Let’s create a new MIDI track and throw a good future bass snare onto it. Now I quickly threw an EQ Eight on the kick and took out and boosted some frequencies like this: You can mess around with the Thresholds now. Same exact thing on the bass track - hold alt (option) and drag it onto the bass. Now activate the Sidechain, set the Audio From to the kick track, bring the Ratio up to something like 6 and Threshold down. To do that, drag a Compressor on the main synth track.Ĭlick the down arrow at the top - the view will extend and you’ll see the Sidechain button. Now we’re going to sidechain our main synth and bass to the kick (so that when the kick hits, both of these tracks go quieter). Now I came up with this pattern for the kick: Let’s add a couple of C3 notes - it’s the root note for our sample (we don’t want the kick to be pitched up or down). Double click a slot on your track to create a new MIDI clip. A new Simpler device will appear with your sample inside. I used a sample from our Deep Premium sample pack - you can check it out here. The third element in the track will be:ĭrag any kick sample to a new midi track. Main Synth: Bass: (cutting out less to keep the bass frequencies) Now add an EQ Eight to the main synth and cut out some of the low end to clean up the sound. Now I quickly reworked our clips - I added some space for the snare which we will add in a second.Īdd the exact same gaps between chords to the main synth (gap always after the half of the bar - the snare will hit then) This is what the bass sounds like for now (with the main synth): Adjust the filter cutoff and the effect dry/wet knob to your own preference. These are settings that I chose for now, they sounded fine to me. To do that turn on the FX1 on the right of Massive, select Classic Tube as the effect type. Maybe we can put on a Tube Distortion effect to fatten the sound. Set the filter type to Lowpass 4, take down the resonance and bring down the cutoff to your own preference. Send all the oscillators to filter 2 with the faders at the right of each oscillator (take them all down). Turn on Filter 2, bring up the fader at the right (activate it) and set the Mix fader (also at the right) all to filter 2 (down). The bass should sound like this by now (it’s not the best sound, we will fix it in a sec): Now turn on OSC3, make sure the oscillator type is it’s Squ-Sw1 as well and crank the wavetable position (Wt-position) to the max (that way we’ll use only a sawwave). Now pitch it down -12 steps (one octave) and turn down the Amp (volume) a little bit. Turn on OSC2, leave the oscillator type as it is (Squ-Sw1). Now, in Massive, change the first oscillator to Sin-Square (we’ll use a sinewave - turn the wavetable position all the way down). Solo the track with the S button below the mixer fader in Ableton. To do that, open up Massive (Shift+Tab and click the french key button) When you’ve opened it up, click File (at the top) and New Sound. Now we’re going to change the sound of the bass. Now go to the Piano Roll (Shift+Tab) and delete all the notes besides the root (bass) notes. I added a blue color, just to make it differ a little bit visually from the synth. To create a bass track, simply right click on the name of the Main Synth track and click duplicate (or left click and Cmd+D)ĭelete the first MIDI clip and rename the second clip to Bass (Cmd+R). In this part we are going to look at other elements of the track. Anyways, let’s get going!Īlso: Make sure to check out our 5+ hour video course tutorials on creating the extended full version of this Future Bass track from Scratch! If you haven’t yet checked out the first part, make sure to do that here. Hey! Welcome to the second part of the tutorial about making a future bass drop from scratch.
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