DB-01 Bassline: One pattern, 20 sounds (no talking)

[@synthgeek]

Awesome! Been watching your channel for a while to learn the intricacies of these devices. Would love to see Space Echo and LXR-02

[@kwaping]

+1, and thanks for all the videos!

[@RichardDeHove]

Then Space Echo on LXR-02 it is :)

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

@@RichardDeHove DB01+LXR02 and space echo would be crazy good!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

wow sounds great and reminds me a lot of the bass sounds that I get from my Virus TI2 and Oberheim!

[@saardean4481]

your comment about the comment that said "sounds a bit the same?" made me think and conclude to "So what?" One could claim that an electric bass guitar more or less sounds very similar to another. But then you have the bass player , the composition, the effects and all of the sudden....variety :-) I mean look at the creative mileage humanity gets out of the 303 :-)

[@RichardDeHove]

With everything on this glorious planet there's plenty of beauty in the details :)

[@saardean4481]

@@RichardDeHove you couldn’t be more right

[@neutronenstern7414]

Extrem gut, danke für die Performance. ❤

[@RichardDeHove]

Gern geschehen

[@jaxager]

The more I see from Erica Synths, the more I want one. The drum machine they make is calling to me. This little bass line synth seems pretty bad ass.

[@RichardDeHove]

Their LXR-02 is certainly a versatile drum machine, but it's the upcoming Perkons I'm really excited to see. Feels like a perfect match for the DB-01.

[@Xibling]

Amazing work. I really appreciate you giving this…could I say overlooked? Synth some serious love and exploration x

[@RichardDeHove]

Thanks. And yes it's funny how things turn out, I bought my first one on a whim really, thinking it wasn't really my style but sort of looked interesting. Now it's my favorite machine.

[@gracecore]

Great video as always Richard, thanks!

[@RichardDeHove]

Thanks Wayne

[@gracecore]

@@RichardDeHove I finally found an erica sythns modulator like you use in the videos, should have it Monday.... looking forward to using more modulation... have to watch your CV video a few more times !

[@RichardDeHove]

@@gracecore That's a great module. Wouldn't be surprised if the DB-01 LFO was built on its guts. Has rock solid sync too.

[@dietervoser4425]

Es mag wohl nur ein Pattern sein. Der individuelle Charakter der 20 Sounds spricht aber wieder einmal mehr für die schwarze Wunderkiste. Sie hat einfach Charme !.-)

[@RichardDeHove]

Vielen Dank. Es wurde mich darauf hingewiesen, dass sie fast alle etwas schmutzig sind. Aber jeder kennt die üblichen cleanen Sounds. Das kann jede Maschine. Ein wenig Splitt und Kies ist die Spezialität dieses Dings.

[@Thekingdomwithinco]

JUST LOVELY 🔥

[@erkydi]

love it man! thinking bout coping this as my main music go to are hard basslinesss

[@RichardDeHove]

It's surprisingly versatile. Eats drive and distortion beautifully and can get very sharp with the use of short gates....

[@MyBichSustained]

Tight!Buying it tomorrow!

[@RichardDeHove]

Would love to hear how it goes.

[@MyBichSustained]

@@RichardDeHove Will do...will be in Tomorrow.Thanks for the killer Jam,it sold me!

[@houseintokyo9105]

I was just ordering this one. I have the lxr. Been wanting to combine them for a while now! :)

[@RichardDeHove]

No secret that I think it's a fantastic little machine. It also makes a good mono sequencer for external gear and idea generator using the randomizer. Lots of ways to use it outside the standard bassline idea.

[@ericcatry9532]

My Top Two : Discord and Hollow 🖤 Thanks again !

[@RichardDeHove]

The Discord one was a favorite of mine too! With no unison or sub the full overdrive seemed to be applied very unevenly between pitches - some notes heavily affected others hardly at all.

[@adamd3820]

They all sound fantastic 👏 I wish you have the dry signal for comparison

[@RichardDeHove]

I agree dry is always better but I thought here that without a little "rounding out" 10 minutes of one pattern would be asking too much.

[@saardean4481]

@@RichardDeHove you could turn the effects down for a few seconds in each sound . like for 10-15 seconds and then continue as you want. This would show a lot about what the base underneath the fx sounds like.?

[@saardean4481]

ps: glad to have found your channel

[@RichardDeHove]

@@saardean4481 In hindsight I agree with you 100%. It's always better to hear the reality even if only briefly. That's why I usually don't have multiple synths playing because I like to know exactly what's making the sound.

[@JoelCardinal]

I'd like to see how you set up this pattern, there's some diverse things happening here like bass and noisy beat sounds as you noted. Also thanks for the CV tip, I'll try that out.

[@RichardDeHove]

The pattern does have a little bit of everything: Pitchmod to give the drum-like hits, a little filter mod and a few accents. Overall though the LFO is the most important element in almost all the sounds.

[@JoelCardinal]

@@RichardDeHove I have a DB-01 but don't think I'm getting the most out of it, love to see more content for it, including setting up rad patterns!

[@RichardDeHove]

@@JoelCardinal Thanks for the suggestion! In the meantime I think the easiest (& most fun) way to get new and interesting patterns happening is to master the randomization secton. I made a couple of videos covering that. Combined with the recent firmware update allowing you to easily shift the pattern start-point, it makes complex creation very entertaining and productive. Start with a gate pattern, re-rolling until you get a good feel; then select and constrain a scale to a small range. Now you have a "standard" pattern and can spend the time adding the little details that make a really good pattern. Most all: Don't forget the LFO!

[@Nothepoleece]

Sick

[@ukbloke28]

Sounds amazing. Is the distortion in the DB, the only outside effect is the space echo?

[@RichardDeHove]

Yes, just the echo. The DB-01s drive can get very gritty.

[@ukbloke28]

@@RichardDeHove love it

[@ATTACT_TV]

Hey Richard, is it worth getting both the LXR-02 AND the DB-01...it seems you get pretty great drum sounds out of the DB-01 while getting some face-melting bass...or are the two the perfect pairing...asking for a friend.

[@RichardDeHove]

Ah yes, I also have a friend who has been wrestling with drum issues for ages. The LXR-02 is exactly the same form factor as the DB-01 so they're beautiful side by side. Small and mighty and surprisingly fast and easy to operate considering the number of parameters. But for me (ooops, I mean "for my friend') it's somehow too 'busy'. It's like it wants to always create complex chattering patterns with lots of hats and tappy things. That's incredibly subjective of course and more about programming than the machine. but I do believe that machines strongly lead you in certain paths. The DB-01 is no drum machine that's for sure, but can get some very reasonable drumish sounds and do a good job reinforcing itself in a drumlike way. I've had all sorts of drum machines over the years from an 808 and 606 to a DDD1, Tom, Drumtracks, 01-IV, TR8s and others. Was just starting to put together a modular drum system when I was saved by the LXR-02. But from all this you can see I'm never happy with drums. Out of all the machines I think I liked the old Tom best, but it was flakey and unreliable as hell. So in the past few days I've just received my long-long-awaited Perkons. I sold lots of stuff for that. Again certain sounds fall out of this machine very easily, especially the pitch-mod-attack kick that is always heard in demos. But the layout and knobs and no-menu setup is very appealing. The only downside (besides price) is that it's so damn big! Anyway, not sure any of this has answered your question. maybe just shows that my friend has ongoing drum issues :D

[@xfghffhfg]

Would you describe the Polivoks filter on that unit a "high gain" or "highly distorted filter"? I remember the "Waldorf pulse Polivoks filter clone/expansion" also sounded hot/distorted to me but the original didn't sound like that at all. It seems there is still lots of "drive" even when the drive is all the way to the left.

[@RichardDeHove]

I'd definitely tend toward the high distortion side. With the filter turned down the resonance is almost "normal" and as you open the filter there's all sorts of gritty little points along the way. I find the filter at about 50% and the resonance at 75% is the sweet spot: the bass is retained and the whole thing starts growling, yet whatever the setting there is no danger of ear-splitting speaker-destroying screams or zaps. Quite unique. And as much as I love my PerFourmer MkII, the filter on that is pathetically weak and weedy in comparison. At times it reminds me of finding high-distortion sweet spots with the Sub37 ... I do miss that machine :/

[@DayflightTrok]

Good, but how you create that with the DB-01?

[@RichardDeHove]

? What you see is what it is.

[@jaxager]

Is the workflow on Erica Synths pretty simple to get a hold of? And is the workflow generally similar across their line up of gear? I'm definitely looking at getting their drum machine (lxr-02, I think). This synth looks amazing too.

[@RichardDeHove]

The LXR-02 has some things in common with the DB-01, but since it's officially V2 of the Sonic Potions LXR it inherits a lot from that as well. OTOH the LXR-02 and DB-01 certainly pair up well. It terms of commonality I think the DB-01 inherited the LFO from their Drum Modulator and I swear I can hear DB-01 pitch-mod tones in the Perkons.

[@jaxager]

@@RichardDeHove Thanks for the quick response! Yeah... I was sitting on the reverb website (which is not healthy for my wallet. Lol...) and came this close to buying a LXR-02. I have four drum machines and none of them seem to come close to the wicked analog sounds coming from that machine. Anyway, thanks again for the quick reply and I am totally digging your videos. Have a great day, sir!

[@RichardDeHove]

@@jaxager Four! You've got it bad :) But now I have to ask, which ones? Back in the day I really liked the old Korg DDD-1, Drumulator and the Sequential Tom. In the modern stuff I bought a Division department 01/IV (twice), and then was just investing in a modular drum setup when I was saved from massive expense by the LXR-02.

[@jaxager]

@@RichardDeHove My first one was the Volca Drum. It is a very cool machine but it really isn't for beginners. Then I got the UNO Drum from IK Multimedia. I got that because it seemed simple (it is) and I have the UNO Synth too so I figured the two would play well together. It is a pretty neat little drum machine for the price, which is around 200 I do believe. Then... I felt I really needed a great drum machine. One that will do everything I need it to. I had my eye on the Roland TR-8S for a long time. I got a bonus at work so I decided to bite the bullet and get one. I love this machine so much. A little while later I decided that grooveboxes were what I really should be looking at. I got a Roland MC-101 and fell in love with this machine too. I ended up getting the 707 a couple of months later because I wanted more tracks and an easier layout. I gave the 101 to my daughter and she loves it. Then I wanted something like the TR-8S but more portable. So I ended up getting a TR-6S a couple of weeks ago. It's not quite as sweet as its big bro, the TR-8S, but it is still a formidable little drum machine. I love having that portability. If I hook it up to my 40k battery pack, i can literally go two days of heavy usage with no problems. Plus I just got a Roland MV-1 Verselab in the mail today. I wanted a groovebox that is made for completing a whole song, start to finish. So, there's my life story... Lol

[@RichardDeHove]

@@jaxager The 101, TR8s and MV-1 would make a very slick lineup - nice visuals too. It'd make a good "Roland featured artist" clip. Got any tracks up to link? Maybe you just need a little something for weirdness now?

[@alfiedotwtf]

Although the DB-01 is awesome and has a huge range, I'm sad there's no videos of it just trying to be a 303 - i.e acid with drive Josh Wink style

[@RichardDeHove]

Hi AJ. Got a link to an good example track? I'd like to give it a go.

[@alfiedotwtf]

@@RichardDeHove Oh, lovely. Yes... here's the seminal masterpiece :) It builds up, and towards the end goes off with wild distortion - the original acid head banger! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmTLcqF3o6-qr7c

[@alfiedotwtf]

Even if it doesn't get super close, I'd love to see the DB-01's 303 likeness

[@RichardDeHove]

@@alfiedotwtf Thanks for the link. Interesting challenge!

[@alfiedotwtf]

@@RichardDeHove No stress if you don't have time, but major props for any attempt!

[@satan4768]

Needs more moose

[@RichardDeHove]

Is that like a cowbell?

[@44lala16]

Sounds absolutely awful - nothing worse than a distorted bass sound. Can you show any sounds that are not distorted?

[@RichardDeHove]

The DB-01 can do smooth and pure, I just prefer the other flavors :)

[@ukbloke28]

Brittany Spears is over there, you're on the wrong vid mate.