Where can you get Phatt R&B Bass pgms from?

Looking for nice bass pgm for my MPC 2000. I've been using sf2s within cubase VST32 and I want to program my bass through my new MPC. I'm looking for basses like those used by Timbaland on Ginuwine & Aaliyah, or like R. Kelly uses, etc. Not really interested in buying a module just yet, but just for kicks what is the recommendation for a module for R&B basses.

if Hardware:

then id'e say the MPC as a sample based unit is the best choice, which you have. Also the Triton Rack is wicked for drums.


If Software:

then ide say Stylus by Spectrasonics. its a soft synth which has amazing amount of 36,000 drum samples. over 1000 kicks (phat, and excellent for hip / RnB), over 500 Snares/Claps (exellent), over 500 hi hats, shakers, congas, tambs, etc.

each sound can be layered, tweaks and shaped into a completely different sound.

Stylus is probably the best drum synth on the market for RnB and Hip Hop.
its very clean sounding, and can be tweaked to the most grittiest sound too.

i have heard rumors from some UK based studio bods that alot of the US big boys like Neptunes, Dre, etc us Stylus, by resampling the sounds thru thier MPCs and ASR machines.

explains why 50 Cents 'In Da Club' clap sample is identical to the claps in Sylus with reverb removed.

alot of the shakers, cabasas, tri bells, congas and bongos that Neptunes use also ring a bell.

As for the Kicks, each with the low end punch, and have complete control via the Stylus filters for complete shaping. over 1000 kicks...you cannot go wrong.

Roopesh wrote:if Hardware:

then id'e say the MPC as a sample based unit is the best choice, which you have. Also the Triton Rack is wicked for drums.


If Software:

then ide say Stylus by Spectrasonics. its a soft synth which has amazing amount of 36,000 drum samples. over 1000 kicks (phat, and excellent for hip / RnB), over 500 Snares/Claps (exellent), over 500 hi hats, shakers, congas, tambs, etc.

each sound can be layered, tweaks and shaped into a completely different sound.

Stylus is probably the best drum synth on the market for RnB and Hip Hop.
its very clean sounding, and can be tweaked to the most grittiest sound too.

i have heard rumors from some UK based studio bods that alot of the US big boys like Neptunes, Dre, etc us Stylus, by resampling the sounds thru thier MPCs and ASR machines.

explains why 50 Cents 'In Da Club' clap sample is identical to the claps in Sylus with reverb removed.

alot of the shakers, cabasas, tri bells, congas and bongos that Neptunes use also ring a bell.

As for the Kicks, each with the low end punch, and have complete control via the Stylus filters for complete shaping. over 1000 kicks...you cannot go wrong.

Sounds good! But I'm looking for basses not drums.

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the Emu Proteus 2000 has amazing basses. they are all highly usable for hip hop and rnb.

i have the smaller but newer proteus 1000, which is axactly the same as the 2000, with 64 voices and not 128, with very minor cut downs that i would never miss anyway. it has 4 banks of basses.

from warm moog types, to muffled thumper basses that timbo uses.

by the way Timbaland uses the Emu Proteus 2000, he owns one, and so does his engineer (jimmy douglous).

i have come across many Timbaland tunes that use sounds from the Proteus, as well as the Korg Triton ones.

but for basses i bet they are from the Proteus.

The other big play for bass modules is the Novation Bass Station...a dedicated bass module. also now available as a VST soft synth.

but, sofware wise: the VST / AU of the Novation Bass Station, or the well reviewed Spectrasonics Trilogy (which is a heavy 3 gb of bass samples of the moog).

Also try searching for bass cd's on this site.

Excellent, I have used the Proteus 2K however, it wasn't mine and I had to give it back (deezam!). It does have nice bass banks. I just did not want to get one right know. How much does the Proteus 1K run? I'll check out the MPC bass on this site but it looks like a lot of analog bass samples.

http://www.rainorsmusic.com/Lil_Trip.m3u (Steinberg's Cubase VST32)

why not trying out a real analog synth? more tweakable, and you can get some of those lots more cheap than the average Rompler (aka Proteus, Triton, XV etc).

Tutor got some good cheap multisample basses. I dig em
I also use my ms2000r for em sometimes.
Maybe the low end theroy. Filter out highs of your melody to usally like 20 and boost the reso. Then replay that ish with the original.

There is a wealth of samples available, everywhere. You can sample yourself humming deeply or sample the basses you want from the CD's you like. That's if you want to sound like them.......

Filters, sweeps can do amazing things. You can even Jack sounds from PS2 or PS1 if you have those.

you did say PGMS, once you get your samples use the MPC or MPC editor and create your own programs or use Auto-Chrom.

........AND IT'S ALL FREE, except MPC Editor, but you need that.

PEACE