Question about synth bass...
Jun 20th, 2010, 05:33
Hi everyone,
I posted this over on the ableton website and all I ended up with was snotty answers, so I'll ask here even though it isn't ableton related.
I've created a bass patch using Trilian with a rather deep timbre. Within the first 8-16 bars, the pitches are fine, but after a bit of time looping the clip and listening to it while I make other additions to the arrangement (pad, melody) the pitches of the bass seem to change into, or better, sound like the outline of the notes That I
have chosen have morphed into a different chord altogether!
For example, my bass has a repetitive three-note riff that outlines a diminished chord on F-Aflat-B, but after a while the quality of that chord shifts to what sounds like a major chord that is pitched somewhere between E and F major! Is this phenomena typical of synth basses that have a bit of "melodic" motion to them?
I took steps to layer the patch by adding the same sound in another slot (Trilian has 8 slots available per multi) and changing the timbre ever so slightly, and that seemed to work a bit. Now, I do plan on tweaking the bass patches to evolve slowly over the course of the song, but for any sustained period of inactivity I'd like to avoid the listener experiencing the same thing I'm hearing.
Anyone else have this issue with some of their bass riffs? And no, my ears are not failing, nor are they broken. I have quite a sensitive response to pitches. Just looking for expertise and a possible solution. Thanks in advance!
Jamie
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