Best synth for bass bases ?

[ramangill]

Placed my order for Trillian finally. Should be arriving any day and I can't wait to deploy this sucker!!!

[ze2be]

If you want to save on cpu and ram, Lives synths are great.
Operator for clean, warm basses. Analog for warm, but a little dirty bass.

[agent314]

Placed my order for Trillian finally. Should be arriving any day and I can't wait to deploy this sucker!!!

I doubt you'll be disappointed, except possibly by the install size (34GB).

One thing to note, be sure to update to the latest version after you install. I got it 8-odd months ago and never updated, and I was pleasantly surprised to find sweet new patches and modes available when I did.

[condra]

I find myself using Operator very often for quick and dirty basses.

[Forge.]

I find myself using Operator very often for quick and dirty basses.

yeah was going to say I'm really surprised it hasn't got more love.

Operator is my go-to for almost everything. Amazingly versatile and easy to program.

And as others have said, if you know what you're doing you should be fine with anything, so Operator is a great all rounder there.

[condra]

Operator is my go-to for almost everything. Amazingly versatile and easy to program.

It's insane. As well as Operator, I use Massive, Zebra, Synplant, and Sylenth.
They all have their strong points, but for a quick and easy hybrid synth, with low CPU, and huge sonic potential, Operator holds it's own against the best of them.

Unsung hero IMO.

[Hermanus]

Operator does an amazing job about basses.

Analog is good but I prefer the operator over it.

[ze2be]

Operator does an amazing job about basses.

Analog is good but I prefer the operator over it.

Agree, I use Operator for most of my basses. But Analog is great if you want a different flawor, while still not taxing ram and cpu. Sometimes Operator sounds to clean in a sparse mix. But it glues extremely well in busy mixes, because of its "clean" sound I guess. Analog is also a great all rounder, for most bass.

For more creative bass I use Surge. Its very similare to Massive, but I prefer its filters, and its a lot lighter on resources. However, I tend to use it less and less for bass these days. It is very easy getting good bass with Operator and Analog. Sometimes I stack up a rack with multiple Operators, one on each octave, and use them together.

Edit:was written in trafic

[twisted-space]

You absolutely have to have one of these for bass.



It's an animal, nothing else will do.

[ollyb303]

As has been said, any synth can make a bass sound. I like operator.

If you want a dedicated sub-bass synth, de la mancha's subhuman is decent enough.

[djadonis206]

Best results from Operator and Analog

Analog is great with the two oscillators. Oscillator one a saw going to filter one. Filter it down to just the bass, maybe not so much for some dirt

Ocillator two a sine wave to filter 2. Very short release, sustain all the way up and attack toyour taste.

Easy

[JAMM]

one off my favorite bass-setups: reaktor photone and in the same channel: a stereo chorus, EQ eight in with much gain in the bass frequencies, compressor and then pushing this into a limiter....works for me;)

[kent_sandvik]

I think this also depends on what's vogue with bass sounds. Just now we are back to single Oscillator hollow-sounds. Next year something else.

[rydn]

Zebra is the best overall synth around as far as I am concerned, which includes bass use.

[Hermanus]

Operator does an amazing job about basses.

Analog is good but I prefer the operator over it.

Agree, I use Operator for most of my basses. But Analog is great if you want a different flawor, while still not taxing ram and cpu. Sometimes Operator sounds to clean in a sparse mix. But it glues extremely well in busy mixes, because of its "clean" sound I guess. Analog is also a great all rounder, for most bass.

For more creative bass I use Surge. Its very similare to Massive, but I prefer its filters, and its a lot lighter on resources. However, I tend to use it less and less for bass these days. It is very easy getting good bass with Operator and Analog. Sometimes I stack up a rack with multiple Operators, one on each octave, and use them together.

Edit:was written in trafic

I add some drive to the filter in operator [shape soft or even hard] sometimes boosting the gain to 6db.
For some beat/bass combo it is quite efficient when it sounds too clean and I want some soft grain distorted texture.

I even did a bass monster with Tension + soft saturator and amp+cabinet [both around 30% wet only].