Although there’s no end of mix-ready kick drum sounds available at sample sites around the web including our own, building your own custom kicks by blending two or three sampled layers is always a rewarding endeavour. Each layer should ...
Starting from an INIT preset, we'll look at Oscillator and Filter settings, Repro-5's Tweaks page and why that helps, We'll play around with some sound modulation then work with it against a simple bass sound in keeping with the Chillwave genre then finally add a drum break with some lowpass filtering, bit of a levels balance then finish.
It's often typical to enable the synths additional oscillators and leave the levels where they are. Enable additional oscillators with some really different tones then drop the volume to 0 and slowly introduce it until it adds a different quality to the sound. It’s not about hearing this sound itself but more about hearing the sum of it’s parts when combined with the rest of the sound source, which can be quite different to the same OSCillator but on full volume.
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