In this edition of my Synth Masterclass, we begin by becoming clairvoyant! I know what you are thinking. Why for the love of all things synthesis, would you want to create a bass patch that actively seeks to reduce its harmonic content?
As is so often the case, with a popular synth patch, it’s all about the overall effect. What we might lose in lower-end content, we’ll more than make up for in coolness and character. To begin with, we’re going to create a patch which invites a degree of automation.
To assist in this pursuit, we’ll be using a bandpass filter, located within our Zebra CM plugin, which invites a degree of cutoff frequency sweeping, yielding low-end content for creating