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Evolving bass lines with creative automation
From the course: EDM Production Techniques: Basslines
Evolving bass lines with creative automation
The great thing about making music digitally these days is that almost every single parameter of every plugin can be automated. This gives you a powerful edge when it comes to sound manipulation. I'm going to show you how you can change the sound dramatically of your base lines with a little creative automation. Let's pull up Massive here and play around with some knobs. All right. So let's play the cut off knob. There's a little reverb. Flanger. I've got another oscillator, that's set to a fifth. Which is seven semi tones up. Got a parabolic shaper. Which is actually a little more pronounced when the filter cut off is up. So as you can see, there are a lot of sonic possibilities here just within the synthesizer itself before it ever even hits a plugin. So let's try automating some of these parameters and see what we come up with. Now there are a couple of ways to do this. You can either mouse it in, or you could send a parameter to a knob or slider on your MIDI controller. Whichever…
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