Bass Machine

Revisiting the power of Model D layered with the bite of FM

Bass Machine was in essence an attempt to revisit a commonly used trick of the trade whereby the warm roundness, power and motion of the Minimoog’s bottom end was blended with the bite and clinical accuracy of FM bass. The result is a nice example of where the whole is greater than sum of its parts…

In order to capture as much of the Model D’s character as possible, four patches were dialled into the instrument complete with filter envelope. Since such a process would probably have rendered rather inflexible results another four patches were captured with the filter wide open. Every white key was captured as four random round robins resulting in over 800 samples from Hideaway Studio’s beloved 1976 Minimoog No.7751.

Eight patches were then dialled up on a classic 4-OP FM synth. Four sounds were lightly tweaked and four were programmed to offer a wide range of sonic palette that suitably complemented the patches from the Model D.  Over 280 samples were captured from the instrument on every white key.

Overview

• Bass Machine Dual Channel Synth Engine

• 8 Model D Multi-Oscillator Waves (sampled on every white key with 4 round robins)

• 8 4-OP FM Oscillator Waves (sampled on every white key)

• 1104 24-bit Samples

• 52 Editable & Savable Example Patches

Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 4.2.4 is required.