When I want a pure bass, I sometimes use a sine wave patch in Dimension Pro (although I figure most synths could do this). I wasn't interested in an emulation, but thought it sounded really good and I could use it in my music. Ironically, I wasn't even looking to buy Repro-1, but because so many people were talking about how great it was, I listened to this preset walkthrough while paying bills one day. (And if a patch doesn't have enough at the very bottom, I sometimes layer some in with another synth or using subharmonic generators like MBassador or bx_subsynth.) I haven't run it through an analyzer to see just how low it goes, but there's a demo of it and that's easy enough. For audio examples, here's a video where someone is going through the factory presets and adjusting parameters, so you can get a good feel for how it sounds. and it has onboard synth oscillators as well as sampled ones so mixing them created a bigger bass due to layer and the way a user percived them.Īnd of course, the question is what type of bass.

omni 2.5 now has 8 layers so thats very cool. so imo, any synth that lets you do layers, it will be the best. like playing with the notion of harmonic sequence. there is a main bass layer, then other components that create this huge bass. i like a lot avenger for example, it has layers, which is kinda what im talking about. so it helps to have the type of sound in mind, the synth architwcture to do it, and a patch that has both bass and upper freq information to make a good bass. this is kinda why that moog sound and moog filter etc is famous, brings in very muscial tones on basses in that sawtooth type of basses. so the bass is really not much but adding the higher freq info will help define it. and thats using low low end and then higher mid 1k freq to give it tone. if you are producing trap music then its that 808 style bass with pitch information. a best bass would be different to different poeple. Sometimes is the different parts that complete a whole. I do put a good saturation plugin like Kush Omega N on most of my synth basses which gives them that warm low frequency harmonics. It all depends on the song and how you use it.

I think most synths can make a good sounding bass, if you use them right. If you are considering any NI products get the Komplete Bundle instead.

Serum sounds very clean and Massive is very aggressive, but Serum can probably get aggresive too I you wanted it to. Serum and Massive are great for modern bass stuff. Monark is great too, but doesn't do anything I can't do with Omnisphere, but I haven't compared them. I personally mostly use Omnisphere for my basses, but I mostly use Omnisphere for everything Sure, if you made hundred of sounds and tried to get them as close as possible you could get a usable comparison, but then there is the element of playing into the synths strengths and make something that sounds good on that particular synth.

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