The same letter and number I reply with in most threads.
M8
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I think the most important aspect of this is whats your budget, you can make dnb on pretty much anything if you really want to, I’ve made dnb tracks on everything from a novation circuit up to Ableton and loads of kit in-between like maschine and mpcs etc… it’s all totally doable within the constraints of your budget and whatever device you choose…
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I think it’s more difficult if not impossible to make complex neurobass and other similar type of sounds on machines with not enough features for that: like Model D vs Digitone as an example…
The thread is more about what each uses for hardware DnB production and eventually with some audio/video examples… and also what everyone thinks he/she needs to make even better DnB production… better tools…etc. 
Virus tends to be apart from expensive, kind of muffled in frequencies and hard to insert in the mix.
So you guys also said Hydrasynth, Mpc…
I wonder if a fm synth (like DN) or wavetable synth (like Modwave) can make those neorobasses and complex leads… even a Nord Lead 4?
Last year I made 2 DnB tracks. These are not modern sounding DnB, but this is the kind of DnB I like to make.
I used:
- Deluge for sequencing, drums duties, sampling other machines, playing various fx samples, and playing few ambient synths on both
- Blofeld for distorted bass on both
- Micromonsta 2 for kindof acid sounds on both, and hoover on Corrupt.sys
- Wavestate for epic orchestral pads on Unstable and I sampled multiple presets on Corrupt.sys for some other sounds
- I sampled Mc101 for some mid lead on Unstable, and sequenced it on Corrupt.sys for trancy sounds, some pads, and distorded guitar sounds.
Both tracks are played live.
Blofeld audio going in Deluge audio input, Deluge and other machines audio go in Bluebox mixer.
Unstable has been mixed & mastered by a friend of me, Corrupt.sys is recorded raw.
I really would like to have more time to make more DnB but I don’t, and I can’t stay focus on DnB only, and lose myself in many styles of music 
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Korg EMX1 for jump up/ ravey type DnB.
OT/Tracker/MPC for anything involving breaks.
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Yup. That’s a solid choice for sure. Break sequencing works great on an M8 Tracker
Portable tracker device.
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Something from the Virus series for leads, twisted bass lines/mid range sounds, pads…then do everything else in a top tier sampler.
Or honestly…use Serum but feed sounds into a sampler if you want to work w hardware. You’ll spend a lot of time and money getting DnB synth patches from hardware
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I really like both of these tunes! I’m enjoying the whole album on bandcamp actually!
Could you describe a bit how you got so much movement in the bass patch? I have a similar synthesizer (the Microwave XT actually), and I have been struggling a bit to get something so “alive” sounding out of it. Any hints or patch detials you might have would be very appreciated cheers!
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An ARmkii using the tempo loop trick works really well for DnB. 2 of the middle tracks for tempo locked breaks, i have about 10 loops created in a DAW and after the beat is programmed into the ARMKII you can use the scenes to change the perc and and break samples for interesting variations
Track 1 kick
Track 2 high pitched snare
Track 3 dual vco synth part A
Track 4 clap
Track 5 sub bas sine wave sample
Track 6 4 bar break sample tempo sycd
Track 7 4 bar percussion sample tempo
Track 8 vocal sample
Track 9 closed hh
Track 10 ohh
Track 11 ride
Track 12 crash
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Thanks a lot for your kind words
I don’t remember exactly, I have to take the Blofeld out of its box and check.
As far as I can remember, I created one patch, then created 2 or 3 variations of this patch, and use them through the track in multimode.
I’ll have a look on this more deeply as soon as I can, and will come back soon to explain.
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PERFECT!
great stuff there
Thank you!!
My recent release had some DnB influence. Used M8 tracker for sequencing and Squid Salmple as the main sound source, Waldorf M sampled in for stabs and pads. It’s the type of thing I probably could have done on M8 alone but I sort of wanted a modern version of the amiga + rack sampler workflow and that is what I came up with. I did sort of skip out on the bass part of the DnB though. 
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Back in the day (20+ years ago) the E-MU E4 series was what the top guys were using. We had two of them. The z-plane filters and insane modulation matrix were the special sauce.
Also a Sherman Filterbank (v1) was our go-to to mess anything up in the analog realm. And the Studio Electronics SE-1 for basses (Stakka&Skynet clued us in to that…)
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Sorry for late answer, couldn’t go back to my Blofeld yet, but another D&B topic made me remember I have to check it to answer you.
From memory, for the bass patches on Blofeld I used 3 osc, 2 are wavetables.
A lfo modulates one or two wavetables, don’t remember exactly.
I use 2 filters : one LP modulated by lfo, the other one is bandpass modulated by a different lfo for different speed. This brings slow movement, looks like a bit like flanger.
I also use filter distortion on LP filter, and if I remember well, a fm modulation on this filter, to make it “yell”.
On the fx side I used chorus.
I definitely have to take my Blofeld out of its box to check for better details.
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Whenever you have time it would be great the details. Thanks a lot! Your stuff rules!
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