when i first got into techno this kind of music was all i wanted to hear. big dark warehouses full of people completely mashed going mental to deep dark tribal music, its a million light years away from shuffling around to some loungey house wiv a cocktail in yer hand. it was the future, taking it ...

The bass you mean ? Sounds like an overdriven square+saw with a medium attack on the VCF.

Trilogy can do it nice and fat.

think 'flatbeat' with a bit of saw. or maybe PWM instead of saw.

tone-def wrote:

Dusk wrote:Most people don't have the space for a piano mate. I take it you don't live in a shared house.

i don't even have space for my monitors.

I hear you

If you turn up the volume really loud you here lots of movement in the bass region, and i dont seem to get it right yet... :x Sorry to add more waffle! But this 'movement' is exactly what you can control by playing with the size, density and envelope (i.e. the pre-delay or reverse timings - as stee...

What steevio said... Lots of techno out there, from early tresor and counterbalance right up to modern ostgut and sandwell just uses a dense, mono, low passed reverb on the kick drum instead of an actual 'bassline'. I like to apply heavy compression to the reverb send (or return it to your overall b...

Most people don't have the space for a piano mate. I take it you don't live in a shared house.

I've got a few piano libraries (Akoustic Piano, EWQL) and none sound good enough for me to use prominently in a track. I usually have to detune, EQ and compress the hell out of them, but even then, they still sound too "clean" and unnatural. I'm after that beaten-up, detuned old upright so...

Hilarious.