psytrance part 1 kick and bass

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Psytrance Kick and Bass - Part 1This is the first part of my sounds used in Psytrance tutorials. This covers how to use a sampled saw tooth

wave to create a good bass sound in Kontakt. I also show you how to import a kick and tune them both

together. Then we look at the basic Psytrance bassline pattern using velocity to make it groove.

Step 1

Import saw tooth sample to G in Kontakt and

place over 1 octave. To do this simply use

Kontakts browser to find the ARP 2600 saw

tooth sample supplied (1). When you have found

it, double click it to import it into a Kontakt

Instrument.

Go to the instrument, click on the spanner (2) at

the top left of the instrument to open theinternal options.

Click on the tab that says "Mapping Editor" (3) to

see the mapping of the imported sample. You

will see that Kontakt has mapped out the sample

across most of the keyboard.

Select the yellow keyboard note and move it to

G2 as this is where the original sample was

sampled. (4)

Now move the yellow section to be in-line with

the G2 sample position. To do this, at the edgeof the large yellow section, grab the edge and move it to the G2 section of the keyboard until its only

covering G2.

Move the left hand side of the yellow section by dragging it to C2 and the right to C3. This gives you a 1

octave range for the sample to be triggered.

Step 2

The next thing to do is adjust the release of the

volume envelope (also known as amp

envelope) (1). The reason we are doing this is

so that we can get the sample to end abruptlyso that its nice and punchy and short. Adjust

this to your own personal taste.
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Step 3

We need to add a filter to control the sound

of the saw tooth waveform.

Insert the LP 4 (low pass) filter in the Group

Insert FX`s section (1). If you dont see the LP4

controls appear underneath the Group Insert

FX section click on the edit button (2) to show

the controls for the filter.

Next you need to add an envelope for the cut

off. This is done by clicking on the add

modulator drop down menu (3). Select

Envelopes then select AHDSR. This will add a

modulation envelope called cut off (4) to the

bottom on Kontakt.

Step 4

Next you need to add a kick drum sample (Ihave included the one I used) to Kontakt. To

do this, repeat part 1 above. However, this

time you want to make sure the kick drum is

on C1 (1) (the common placing for a kick

drum).
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Step 5

When you have added the kick drum to Kontakt you need to go to the VST rack (1)(Cubase) to add an

additional Kontakt output channel to the mixer for the kick drum.

Step 6

Open Kontakts mixer

(1)(output), click on the

button at the bottom of

the 2nd channel to open

that channels outputs.(2)

When the output channel

section opens select theappropriate output

channels (3) (next in the

sequence - depends on

your soundcard - mines

where - kt1 (1) & kt2 (2)).

This will give each

instrument in Kontakt its

own, separate outputs.

Make sure you select the

correct output and midichannel in the

instrument.(4)
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Step 9

Finally I have used the velocity automation in Cubase to add a different groove to the 16th pattern (1).

Experiment with this and you will find that you can create many different grooves just with this one

parameter.
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