The “Reese Bass” is one of the more popular sounds in modern Drum & Bass music. In a nut shell, it’s basically a dual saw wave with some slight de-tuning and and a good bit of stereo width.
In today’s tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this sound in Ableton’s Operator.
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Step 1 – Set up your Oscillators.
Set Oscillator A to a Saw D wave form. Lower your Coarse to 0.5 and detune to +10.
Set Oscillator 5 to a Saw64 waveform. Set your Level to -7.3 dB and detune to +25.
Step 2 -Change your algorithm type and add some stereo spread.
Increase your spread to 88% and choose the parallel algorithm (next to your Time control).
Step 3 – Set up your Filter and LFO.
Set your Filter to Low SVF with a frequency of 3.71 kHz and a Resonance of 2.56. Select a Soft Shaper for your Filter.
Step 4 – Adjust your LFO.
Leave your LFO set to a sine wave and choose Sync from the drop down menu. Adjust your rate to 1/4 and your Amount to 7%.
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