Bass Exploration

Make a bass sound with a synthesizer you’ve never used before. Any synthesizer. No matter what kind.

Rules

• Post processing is allowed, but the original sound should still be recognizable (so don’t change it up completely)
• You may add a simple drum pattern, but it’s not a requirement
• The length doesn’t matter, make it as long as you feel is right to show off your results
• For further questions, comment below!

Ideas / Examples

• Vital
• Fruity Granulizer (FL Studio)
• Wavetable (Ableton Live)
• Subtractor (Reason)
• Thor (Reason)

Winner

You can listen to the exercise results from NAVSA here.

Here are a few words from NAVSA:

“Here is how I made it. When I started the exercise I knew I wanted to do something with Vital, I didn’t use it quite a lot until I started the masterclass and I wanted to give it a try and learn more from it.  

First I wanted to do something different and experiment with the ‘glork wavetables’ that you recommended in the masterclass. The original sound is kinda simple, two wavetables with a simple LFO on volume knobs and some distortion, compression and reverb.   

In the post processing I just used an OTT, Q3 and a plugin called ‘Rerun’ (from Sinevibe) that did like a glitch effect to the sound and it helped me to have different variations of the original sound. Because of this plugin I recorded different variations and I chose my favs. I did like a flow that I found interesting and I applied some reverb and EQ. 

To be fair, this is the first time I come up with a cool sound made by myself and I’m already using this workflow to new tracks!  So that’s mainly how I made it. I really enjoyed this activity and I really liked to see what everyone else was doing!  

My artist name is NAVSA and I’m from Valencia (Spain).”

And here are NAVSA’s music and social media links:
Linktree: linktr.ee/itsnavsa
Latest Release: soundcloud.com/navsa/navsa-more-action-original-mix