Pulsating bassline with 80s vibes
ou don‘t necessarily need the infamous Korg PolySix in hardware or software to recreate the distinctive Unison bass sound from “Stupid Love”. Flexible virtual-analog synthesizers are capable of the powerful sound at the top right. Click on in the section and increase to 100% in the window. Now you can play a sixteenth bassline with one finger. In the section, move the control all the way up and select the waveform for oscillator 1. The Unison mode is essential for the broad and floating sound you want. Increase Density to 6 in order to layer six sawtooth waves and set Detune to 32% and Spread to 100%. We tune oscillator 2 an octave lower. Here we also use the waveform and increase the to 6 and the to 100%. receives the value 0%. For even more fatness, we increase the Amt value in the Unison Voices section to 8. Adjust and as shown. Now it is time to tame the overtone-rich sound. To do this, select the mode for and set to 22 and to 59% and Ktrk to 16%. We adjust the filter and amp envelopes as shown. A high pass with a value of 30% is used as a second filter. In the Lady Gaga hit, the bass was sent through a phaser for a livelier and more distinctive sound. Thanks to the good sounding phaser effect of DUNE 3, this is also no problem for the synthesizer. Now all that‘s missing is a subtle plate reverb and a pumping sidechain rhythm, which the plugin Cableguys Kickstart [2] contributes.
