Monday, December 5, 2011

DUBSTEP? Yeah, I'll take a shot at it.

I can remember the first time I heard dubstep. A lot of it was cleaner and softer then the hard hitting dirty bass we hear today... but It was probably late 2008, and it was right before it went mainstream to what it is in 2011. Although dubstep had already been around for like 6 years previous.  Anyways, I'm not going to bore people with specifics.
But me? I LOVE dubstep. It's that hard hitting bass drop that makes me loose control. Excision and Datsik, Downlink are just some of the few name that when I hear there name... instant bassgasm. After have an intense session of my head nearly exploding and regrowing itself and a long night talking with a friend about what if we started a dubstep group combined with hardcore screeeeemo...I decided I would also jump on the board to see if I have what it takes to creates beats and bass like BOWCE.
After doing some research the process of creating dubstep is fairly straight forward. Most of the bass wobbles are created in a VST program. Massive being the most popular was my first choice to pick up. As far as using a program to composite it all together, I found people use fruityloops, reason, ableton and cubase... just to name the most popular. I personally have more experience using abelton live. (from when I rap with my other group) My next step is learning how to create dubstep bass wobbles and different patches. (basically presets) There is a ridiculous number of tutorials on youtube on how to create these.

I found Ascian blogspot page that has great  free tutorials on how to create a number of different dubstep elements in ableton live. You can also buy over 40 patches from him for around 20 USD. Check him out. http://ascianproductions.blogspot.com/

Great tutorial on Morphing & Evolving Pad In Massive.
Enjoy SAAAN! 



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