Digitone Solid Bass tips?

tjam · 2023-12-07T22:45:45.051Z

Hello everyone,

I was surprised that there are no tutorials on the internet on how to recreate solid bass patch from DX7 on Digitone. I struggle to get my bass to sound fat with a nice top end.

Any tips on how to achieve this kind of bass sound?

chrisroland · 2023-12-07T22:51:54.947Z

i got pretty close just mimicking the settings for Lately/Solid Bass on the 4-op DX’s (I believe Algo 5 on the Digitone is the one that most closely matches the DX Algo 2)

gearspace.com

Solid bass/lately bass - Gearspace

Yo, I got a DX11 and been busy programming it... I pulled the lately bass patch settings right off...

but it’s hard to get true 1:1 since DX allowed for a different waveform for each Op. but tweaking the waveshape on Syn 1 and getting the Feedback level just right can get reasonably close, in my experience.

tjam · 2023-12-07T23:39:22.348Z

Thanks for sharing! I’ll give it a try

re5et · 2023-12-07T23:45:06.021Z

Easiest thing ( though not as cheap ) is to buy a tx81z or other old fm box that has latelybass on it

Instead of spending hours on it , spend a little money on it instead.
Use digitone to do something new sonically.
Or buy soft synth.

Not quite the answer of doing it on digitone - but definitely another option.

maymind_trax · 2023-12-08T00:19:18.659Z

Volca FM2 also does a solid Lately Bass and is very affordable. Lotta bass out of that box in general.

Microtribe · 2023-12-08T00:32:39.542Z

You can use 2 tracks and the layer function.
So 1 track can be the bottom end, the other can be the top end.

Digitone has masses of low end, and will pierce your eardrums with high end so no problem there.

alechko · 2023-12-08T07:07:31.582Z

I couldn’t find any clean examples of the solid bass patch, only from this video:

anyway, here’s a sloppy go at this sound:

and in square flavor:

hadron · 2023-12-08T09:57:38.537Z

Here is a Digitone track, with a “DX Lately bass” like sound. Not exactly the same, but similar.

johnl · 2023-12-08T10:45:22.884Z

is also a great video

pdp · 2023-12-08T14:00:55.569Z

Creating techno style bass sounds Digitone/Digitone Keys

There’s a preset in the DN from memory that’s very similar to the classic Yamaha Solid Bass/Lately Bass preset. It would be worth checking out the settings for that. A036 - TX Bass

In this thread people say A036 tx bass is similar. Can‘t test now

chrisroland · 2023-12-08T14:36:37.846Z

the couple of TX Bass presets are . . . okay (imo). a good starting point for tweaking but don’t quite have the snappy brightness of the original to my ears

jeye_musik · 2023-12-08T16:29:31.104Z

johnl:

is also a great video

In addition to that being a good video there is a link in the description to a zip file with a bunch of the DN patches he used in the video. What’s even better is that there is a nice version of Solid Bass in the zip file that doesn’t get featured in the video. Along with a few other useful things like DX7 style strings etc.

tjam · 2023-12-08T17:07:09.841Z

ohh, that’s super nice,I didn’t notice that there was a zip file to download with the patches!! thanks

Nils · 2023-12-09T03:49:28.337Z

Recreating classic FM/DX7 sounds on Digitone (incl. free Sound Pack) Digitone/Digitone Keys

After some months of honeymoon with my first Elektron, an AR2, I added a Digitone to my setup this April. Since this is my first FM synth, I had the idea to learn FM sound design by trying to rebuild some classic FM sounds, mostly Yamaha DX7 stuff from the 1980s, on the DN. Learned a lot in the process; here’s the results, a 13 minute video and a free sound pack with 60 Digitone sounds, one project, and a few sounds for AR2 and Novation Peak, too. [Classic FM Sounds Reimagined on the El…

tymon · 2023-12-09T17:34:32.695Z

rtme · 2023-12-09T23:24:56.261Z

This (excellent) video is not about creating the exact bass sound you are looking for but will explain you the techniques how you could do it yourself:

jose_no · 2023-12-10T01:39:01.246Z

Keep tweaking, i just keep stumbling into these ridiculous bass sounds, i have an a4mk2 which you would think would make a better bass machine what with being analog and whatnot but i keep ending up with the digitone as a bass, pad/texture/ambience and bass,