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Free Sample Friday: SH-101 Hard PWM Bass

Another Friday is upon us and that means it's free sample time! Today's giveaway is a multi-octave, multi-sampled (9 notes) pulse width modulation synth bass courtesy of my Roland SH-101. Perfect for old school EBM or anything that needs a sort of hard-edged analog bass. Samples are mono 24-bit/44.1k WAV samples. Enjoy!

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Free Sample Friday: More 1-note Virus Bass Samples

Here's another serving of single note synth bass samples from the Access Virus B. All samples are mono 24-bit/44.1k WAV files with a root key of C2. Enjoy!

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Free Sample Friday: Sub Drops

Today's selection is a pack of 5 sub bass drops perfect for putting in the breakdown of your next club mix. (Might be good for Dubstep and Drum n' Bass too...) Drops were made with a Virus B, Logic ES2, FXpansion Strobe, Sonic Charge Microtonic, and TAL Bassline. Drops were then processed with various compressors and other smashy effects. As always, 24-bit, 44.1k

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Playing Hooky

I was poking around online and came across this interesting thread about Peter Hook's (if you don't know which bands he was in, you probably won't care...) distinctive bass tone and how it's achieved.  Although I think it leaves out the vital tip that it won't sound the same unless you sling your bass so low that it's bouncing off your shins.

Goa and Psytrance Bass Sounds

Just a link to a thread on the KVR forums where a user named ZenPunkHippy gives a lot of useful advice on programming and producing synth bass sounds for Goa and Psytrance tracks...

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Free Electric Bass Samples For Kontakt

Pettinhouse, makers of the DirectBass sample collection for Native Instruments Kontakt, have made a special, free version available for people to give some of their sounds a try. They do accept donations, so if you download the free version and get a lot of use out of it, throw them a few bucks!

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