How to clean out
your 808 basses
If there is an instrument I love
to play with its probably the 808 bass!
So today am going to show you how
to set up and clean your 808 bass (this tutorial doesn’t apply to 808’s that
are housed by VST’s e.g. Trapboom ) so
that it comes out nicely.
Am assuming that you already have
Fruity Loop Studio installed, and an 808 soundpack that you have downloaded. If
you do not have an 808 soundpack you can get one from
http://www.freedrumkits.net and http://www.trisamples.com
Step 1: Find your 808 bass and
add it to the step sequencer.
Right click your 808 bass and
then click on open in new channel
Step 2: Click on the 808 bass
that you have added to the step sequencer to bring up the channel settings.
When the channel settings menu pops up click on the INS tab and then select the VOL
envelope tab.
Step 3: Adjust the ADSR (attack,
delay, sustain and release)
Click on the att knob and reduce the attack, do the same for the dec, sus and rel knobs. The idea is to get a square like curve. After you do
this, your bass should not continue playing or echoing after you stop pressing
the key or playing it in the piano roll /step sequencer.
If you continue to hear any noise
or sound that you do not like then you can proceed to step 4 .
Step 4: Adjust the pre- computed effects. This is something you do not want to overdo,
so do it with caution. Go to the loop panel and unmark loop using points . if you continue to
hear any noise or unwanted sound then go to the pre-computed effects tab and
then click-and-hold the out knob .Thereafter , adjust the
knob until you you can nolonger hear the unwanted sound or it until it becomes
faint.
If you have any questions please
post them in the comments section.
