AROIOS Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Just came across a powerful and tasty drone bass demo on YT that reminds me of what Hans Zimmer and Howard Scarr did in The Dark Knight sound tracks using Zebra. What other synths and sound design techniques do you find useful for these type of sounds? Thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkci5U5TV7A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tusker Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 A typical early recipe for a drone synth bass had three ingredients: - Two or three hard to tune Moog 921B oscillators, gently rubbing against each other and then drifting into ... - a Moog CP3 mixer which added it's own unique saturation to accentuate the rubbing and reinforce the fundamental frequency and then - floating out through a fairly open Ladder filter, which would allow the gentle fluctuations to be heard. You could add additional flavors to this basic recipe. Today, anything that adds random fluctuation through some kind of saturation and filtering will get you close. You want a lot of harmonics so saw waves are your friends. Personally I use a Toy Box Audio Atomic Oscillator in Reaktor, which frequency modulates the individual partials of a saw oscillator to create a lot of frequencies. Also as you probably know, Zebra HZ has a number of the Dark Knight drone patches that you mentioned. They are a great jumping off point. Howard Scarr is brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Moog Taurus. 2 Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveNathan Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I’m almost always pleased with what I can pull together in Air Music Technology’s Vacuum Pro 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorSilver Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 I did a drone bass patch on MS-20 Mini based on the bass patch that I made following these 2 videos I then turned modulation frequency and some other settings down so instead of a fast wobble, I got a nice slowly evolving sound. The result - probably would have sounded more atmospheric with a reverb effect instead of just the analog delay but, whatever: 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 So I followed the tips from Tusker and GovernorSilver and got something useful out of layering 4 instances of Polysix with detuning.This is fun. +DRONE - Polysix x4; Unison Saw Bass.mp3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real MC Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 I like my Moog Source through Korg SDD-1200 set to stereo chorus for drone bass. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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