Daft Punk Voyager Bassline

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  1. philou72

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    Daft bass sound : TB303-->Disto--> High and low pass filter with a little amount of resonance... That's all
     
  2. Baxter

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    Cheap and easy to find. :rofl:
     
  3. anthony doyle

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    "Easiest is to use the filter within the synth. Most synths have bandpass (and other standard filters). This can be key-tracked, meaning that the higher the note you play, the higher the cutoff frequency will be. With this you can dial in on the desired frequency/character/timbre that you want on one note (nasality, honkiness, clarity, presence, etc) and the "character" will stay with the sound in whatever range you wish to play it, may it be in the bass or up in a lead sound."

    ok cool thanks, cheers for that info about key tracking.
     
  4. Diego753

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    I always thought that the bass on this track was a loop played on a real electric bass, especially for one of the Daft Punk is an electric bass player.

    Man, that sounds very nice ! Would you please share your patch for Surge ?
     
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    Thanks. In your example it seems to have a more percusive attack, I do not get to have it sound as good.
     
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    Things that might be interesting,
    No more than two weeks ago Aeroplane was in the studio as he was actually trying to find the bassline sound from "Voyager" (again) and he dramatically failled. He finally gave up, and he believe that to many thing has been involve in the process to reproduce that today. The closest he could get was with the MS20 but still... When i showed him this thread, he was first happy (reading the title) to finally find the solution, then he totally bug when hearing his bassline, then he laugh when he understood that the solution was a reference to one of his track...But at least it was a good work reproducing his bassline wich wass actually made with Retrologue and the build in filter ;)
     
  8. Baxter

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    I think you need to add a transient designer (boost transients) or a compressor with some attack time, then run it through an EQ of filter to boost the mids. You could almost set a wahwah pedal in the middy sweetspot.

    Interesting.
    It's not really a complicated sound. Once the basic sound is set you can shape it even more (LPF/HPF/bandpass, formant, comb filtering, parallel band-distortion, etc) to get it where you want it (personal touch). Maybe one can use the MS20 filters, yes! :)
     
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  10. mitchellprice

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    Hi Baxter, I used your surge preset and it gave me this sound:

    How do i match it so it sounds like yours in the snippet you posted?
    many thanks
     
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  11. Baxter

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    Play it lower and do some EQ boosts in the mid-range (around 800-1000Hz IIRC). Maybe even some slight saturation. Try that.
     
  12. mitchellprice

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    Hi, here's what i got to.
    I still can't get your definition in the mids like you have and it's really annoying me. not sure where to go from here. It almost seems like there's a filter that isn't opening compared to your example but am not sure.
    Really want to get this sound right so any help is massively appreciated
    many thanks
     
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    yesterday I saw one original tb303 on a French website for...5000€ !! No joke!
    [​IMG]
     
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    Massive has these 2 Filters called "Daft" & "Acid" which should get you real close in re-creating this sound as far as the funky low-pass resonance is concerned.
     
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    Yeah, it does sound like the top end is muffled. Strange. You don't have any filter or EQ after the synth (on busses or master)?

    The "boxiness" or "low honk" is around the muddy 300Hz (not 800-1000 as I wrote). The box/honk is more important than the nasality here, to get to that Daft Punkish sound.
     
  16. mitchellprice

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    Just double checked and I don't have any filters or EQ on after the synth or my busses. I think it's to do with your patch, I'll attach a screenshot of it. I'm not sure how Surge works so could you double check that the settings for the filter are set right with the patch on your end?
    https://snipboard.io/9qzo5D.jpg
    many thanks for your time!
     
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    My final thoughts on the Voyager Baseline is that the sound comes from the processing more than it comes from the synth. You could throw most synths at the right processing and it will sound right.

    They weird attack of the bass comes from over-compression, not the synth. The tone most probably comes from the sampler (most of Daft Punk stuff was sequenced in an ASR10, you can clearly hear the looping in Voyager) and most probably from some Guitar Amp presets from the Ensoniq DP4 (or that ASR10 itself as it had a DP4 built in) that they have been know to use extensively. That, and writing a fucking killer bassline. The Master Buss compression also drastically changes the groove of it.
     
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    I hate to bring a thread back from the dead, but I've been puzzling over this for weeks. Does anyone have any idea how to get the Voyager sound using Omnisphere/Trilian + effects? It really is a never ending quest.
     
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