How to make a simple dubstep beat in Ableton Live?
How to make a dubstep beat?
Making a dubstep bass sound
In this video you will learn how to make a dubstep style bass sound in Ableton live, easy.
Start by dragging the default simpler preset on Ableton into a track.
You first need some type of wave form to generate sound in our simpler instrument. Most dubstep bass sounds use square waves. Here we are going to use a hybrid square wave solitude wave pulled from the machine drum.
Download the sample from the link to follow along.
Drag the sample and turn on the loop button in simpler to hear how it would sound.
Next thing, we will add a filter to the sound. Most time people go straight to the low pass filter when making bass sounds. This time we will use the band pass filter instead, which will produce a more dramatic effect. Lets turn it to somewhere about 100 hertz.
We turn the filter envelope on and change the filter to envelope amount to about 120. This envelope amount will give us a thump or pop at the beginning of our bass sound. We nee one last thing to make it dubsteppy.
The wabble.
To make the wabble i turn on the LFO and change the rate so that it synchs to Live’s clock. Lets hear what we have.
I’m going to change the voices. That sound very convincing.
Now, first we play around with the filters. now we add a little velocity sensitivity so that the frequencies go higher or lower. Now the spread lightly separates the left and right channels. Now lets map some midi controllers to the sound for real time playability.
We will change it so the minimum speed is 8 notes and the maximum 23 notes. That is so it doesn’t go too slow or too fast.
That’s it
I recommend playing around with the sound so you customize it as you like.
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