This Bass Sidechain Workflow Hack Is Simple & Effective

[@rhinoskin7550]

It's awesome you've gathered enough basic knowledge to be able to then make things work differently.. More traction like that.

[@andresjimenez1966]

sounds super tight when applying this technique.... cheers!

[@mutationzone]

I've been enjoying your videos so went looking for your music. Just over half way through Selected Psybient Works 2023 right now and I'm thoroughly spaced out. Cheers.

[@user-fc7dg4bz7k]

Ahh… so simple and clever. Thank you Dash. Osom trick! 🤘

[@cryptout]

This is so creative, just the fact you come up with these kind of workflow hacks is amazing.

[@BassFunMusic]

Your music takes me on a journey every time! Love this channel! 🎶🌍

[@MrChrisanova]

What a great idea with the Wavetable. Can’t wait to check it out. ❤ Thx Dash!!! 🎉

[@StefanSauer]

Nice. I've experimented with it and found another option - You can use 2 curves modulators - one with 3 steps at 100% (your wavetable end) and one with the 2nd step at 0% (your wavetable start) and then use a Mix modulator to blend between them. Curves 1 & 2 modulare the Mix A/B balues and the mix modulator e.g. modulates the voice level of the bass synth

[@conrow1157]

Absolutely amazing mate 👍

[@DashGlitch]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TheAlburp]

I love using the devious machines DUCK for any kind of DUCKing application 🦆🦆🦆

[@architechproducer]

Haha, super. I actually had the same idea recently and has switched to Snapheap and Multipass for that basic drawn in sidechaining. I like to use the "real sidechain" audio follower to trigger the lfo shape though, but maybe that creates unnecessary latency, compared to automating for parts where there's no kick to duck instead..? 🤔 Thanks for making our musical journeys smoother! 🙏

[@rybotekk]

Genius.

[@degstep9968]

Thank you very much!!

[@ricardoporvilho5093]

thanks dash! great add as always you do. man I would like to see some explanation on how to create note variations and groove on a rolling bassline (i.e. fullon 145bpm) I cannot see a clear and complete explanation on how to achieve that. ( just on slower bpm and prog styles) appreciate mate. cheers! 😃

[@alexanderkritsek]

Snapheap looks really cool.i think i might finally ditch the LfoTool.but you can also do tgat editing the velocity/volume on your audio sample/midi i think yes ? for me editing the audio's volume rate has worked many times.

[@DashGlitch]

You can edit the audio, but that's a PITA especially if you want to have a bass with more than 1 note, and keep it in MIDI

[@DreamyDawnMusic]

I found out when doing the Snap Heap trick there´s a slightly click at the end because of the gain amount. I was trying to fix it in the actual wavetable itself but no luck even when drawing the end a bit back to prevent it :) Lovely trick none the less

[@DashGlitch]

Draw a few points of 0 value at the end then set the phase to 1

[@florianstrobel9065]

Smart way 👍🏻

[@trancephile2412]

I'm thinking about using two separate vst , one for quite Note and One for Louder Notes then in Fl studo we can controll both with one piano Roll to edit notes 🤔🤔🤔

[@UTOBY]

can we link the trigger not to the grid but to the actual midi signal from the kick? This would be especially usefull when we don't have a 4 to the floor beat pattern, or some double kicks, where I also want the signal to be ducked. Likewise to LFO'tools midi in as envelope. Thats why I use Duck 2

[@DashGlitch]

infact you can, if you just turn the loop mode off and send it the trigger, I think by default it restarts on note on

[@joesayle2213]

Forgive me if I am not understanding this. But can't you just modulate the volume with velocity and then change that on the piano roll ?

[@DashGlitch]

You can do that, although I personally don't like fine-tuning hundreds of velocities in a project, and also it's not as clean, in the case where you may have processing causing some tail which will overlap the initial transient of the kick- this is why we usually side-chain :)

[@rallzam]

sadly you people dont understand, that this stuff dash makes, are just some fun nice to know things. many people know that there are much better things for sidechain like shaperbox 2 or duck 2. you can do the most things with stock plugins, shaperbox and duck are just a bit faster, in shaperbox you can also see your trigger signal and splitt the ducking shape in low, mid and high freq, so you can fine tune it very well. i use shaperbox 2 only. its atm the best tool for sidechain. but i forgive you for not understanding.

[@DashGlitch]

@@rallzam Can you do the perfect sidechain setup with just one parameter in either of those?

[@rallzam]

@@DashGlitch nothing is perfect. your solution is cool, but you are ducking the whole signal frequency spectrum, i personally dont find it that great. when you adjust the low, mid, top sidechain trigger separetaly, you have a much more "fit in" effect, it glues much better then ducking the whole signal. and your technic here also does it with your ears only. you cant see how much of the signal you are actually really ducking. i could never work like this. i need to see what i am doing and how much the signal is ducking. i honor your way, cuz its very creative, but for me its more a fun nice to know trick, that i would never use in sidechaining a kick or snares. and i know it sounds a bit "over the top" to split a sidechain signal in low, mid, top but just try it with shaperbox 2 and you will never use something else for sidechain again. invest 10 minutes in fiddeling around your kick and snare sidechain presets, save them and the next time you need them, you load them and you need no more then 1 minute to fit them to your new kick or snare sample, cuz have the saved shapes and you can see the trigger in your low, mid, top channel. i have bitwig too, it works like a charm. keep up your great work.

[@x-hale2899]

@@DashGlitch AI: Hold my beer

[@WayneKirby]

You had Wavetable LFO on Bipolar FWIW, and you probably shouldn't unless I'm missing something?

[@DashGlitch]

Probably true, was just a quick explanation at the end and I probably missed that

[@WayneKirby]

@@DashGlitch No worries, just saw you didn't catch it. Keep up the great content man!

[@gridlocker2099]

Hello Dash..Hope its ok to ask this here...I've come back to production after a 15 year break and its been quite a learning curve but your videos have really helped. I'm thinking of getting one of your Vital sound packs to get me going...Which one would you recommend as a good overall starting pack. Thank you from the Uk

[@DashGlitch]

Vol2 has more "traditional" sounds while Vol3 has a mix of that with some more experimental stuff, if you wanna go for traditional full-on style, then I'd say go for Vol2 :)

[@gridlocker2099]

@@DashGlitch Thank you Dash.....I am definitely more into the full on Style but want a good bass to start from before I get into the more experimental stuff. I will start with Vol 2 and then go from there...Cheers man

[@gridlocker2099]

It took me a while but finally got the Vol2 sound pack,just what I was looking for...Thank you

[@IngoGarza]

Am i just not hearing it right or is the native bitwig version not morphing between the values correct? Felt less gradual and more like a couple of steps.

[@DashGlitch]

Yes, technically the bitwig tool is using dB scaling which is not linear, while in Snap Heap we're using a percentage, the result is still the same although the difference is that the macro controlling it in the bitwig native is more exponential. Meaning you hear most of the movement in the upper 50%

[@WayneKirby]

He had Wavetable LFO on Bipolar mode, that's why

[@DashGlitch]

@@WayneKirby true but it's also non-linear/dB scaling

[@alfa156c]

nice trick :thumbs up: 89

[@RicoLee27]

What am I watching lol. Looks interesting. I will still use automation clips/envelope/peak controller for sidechain

[@DashGlitch]

Do you make Psytrance? I like a stable square-like shape with slight curves, I guess you could do that with the FL-clips, but then you'de be copy-pasting more than making music ;)

[@SiLiDNB]

8:05 you forgot to set the lfo to bipolar, this is why the distribution feels a bit weird.

[@DashGlitch]

correct, silly mistake coz it was a quick example

[@Gabriel-l2j1r]

This is not a real sidechain brah 😂 Nice work!