它是最胖、最温暖、最有力的吗？没有，但它有足够数量的所有这些，加上一组可观的高次谐波，使其成为媒体使用的理想选择。
你有那种无法替代的声音吗？无论采样多么糟糕，无论它在键盘上有多小和多宽，你都找不到更好的吗？对我来说，"更好"更适合所有形式的媒体。以这款从值得信赖的Roland JP8000上采样的主力低音为例，它确实和你一起环游了世界（和一个叫Peter Andre的家伙一起完成了大部分的飞行里程），并且在各个方面的性能都超过了它。
除了低音。
这是一个subby的东西，可以给你各种丰富的底部（在某种程度上，可以降低到低音，就像电贝司一样，它只会变成扑通音），同时也可以在任何扬声器类型上听到。这不是特别有趣，也不是特别现实，有点不碍事。当你没有贝斯手的时候，这就是你需要的贝斯合成器。
这是我将在这里贴出的一系列新样本的一部分，名为"起源"。我基本上从头开始。与其整理我十几岁的卧室里的样品，我决定把它全部扔掉，重新制作过去25年里我为自己制作的所有特殊样品。
这是一部关于我从头开始创建自己的个人样本库以及我如何制作这个低音样本集的短片…
Is it the fattest, warmest, punchiest? No but it has just that right enough amount of all of those, plus an appreciable set of upper harmonics to make it ideal for media use.
Do you have one of those sounds you just can't replace? No matter how poorly sampled, no matter how small and stretched across your keyboard it is, you just can't find better? "Better" for me being better suited to all forms of media. In the case of this workhorse bass sampled from a trusty Roland JP8000 that has travelled the world with yours truly (completing most of it's air-miles with a chap called Peter Andre) and has been surpassed sonically across all aspects of it's capabilities.
Save for the bass sound.
It's a subby thing that gives you all sorts of rich bottom (to a point, go to low and like an electric bass it just becomes flop) whilst also being audible on any speaker type. It's not particularly interesting, it's not particularly realistic, it kind of doesn't get in the way. Which is what you need from a bass synth when you don't have a bass player.
This is part of a new series of samples I'll be sticking up here called "Origins". I basically have started again from scratch. Instead of tidying my teenage bedroom of a sample drive I've decided to dump it all and re-create all the special samples I've made for myself and could do without over the last 25 years.
Here's a wee film about me starting my own personal sample library from scratch and how I made this bass sample set… |
