Making a an acid lead

cavodine · Post by **cavodine** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:05 am

Anyone have any ideas on making an acid lead?

I've been playing around with Operator and had some luck with a saw wave and using the filter envelope etc. Still, it's not as dynamic as I'd like and seems like it'd be way too much work to tweak it manually throughout a track.

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:10 am

not sure with operator, get ABL bassline or phoscoyn..
even then manual is the way to go

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:45 am

When ABL is Note mode it functions as a normal Midi device and the internal sequencer is disabled. Overlapping two notes will activate a slide (glide) between the notes, and notes with velocity over a certain threshold will produce an accented note. The default threshold is velocity 100, but can be changed (see Configuration, AccentVelocity).

Producing bass lines that sound accurate require use of many staccato notes. This can be done by using 32nd grid resolution in the host sequencer and making sure that each note is one half 16th. This approximates the standard gate time of ABL which is about 55% of the total note, and is needed for accurate 303 emulation. If you prefer to play legato that is of course perfectly fine as well.

som[e] · Post by **som[e]** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:34 am

spiral wrote: making sure that each note is one half 16th.

do you mean a 32nd (as in a half 16th) or a dotted 16th (as in one and a half 16th)?

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:02 am

set length of the notes to about 1/32 because this is default note length in TB303 - there must be a free space between neighbour notes

cavodine · Post by **cavodine** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:58 am

thanks for the info spiral.

bassline looks good. now only if I had the cash... downloadering the demo now.

I checked out the d16 page and drumazon seems cool too. again, if only I had the cash.

I'll probably keep working with operator too and see what I can come up with.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:10 am

have a look in the racks thread,

this Drum rack has a demo song
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 215#424215

that demo song has an 'acid' noise on a muted track.

it is by no means a faithful emulation of a 303, but it achieves the required effect. It uses a simpler as the sound source and some other trickery to get it to sound nice/nasty

cavodine · Post by **cavodine** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:36 am

That was pretty rad. thanks!