Tune the bass

Usually when i use a bass it doesnt sound right,its not ... hmm whats the word im looking for.U know when a gitarr sounds ****,you have to tune the strings to sound right again.Im having a hard time tune:ing my bass on the Mpc,the bass is often very low so i dont hear the diffrence between +-5 procent tuning,i used to make my bass an "oktav" higher <- swedish expresion(dont know if you get it) so its easier to here and tune it for the sample

Tuning at -+5 is alot less noticeabe at that smaller range than the octave you used to do.

yea i know,,i used to higher an oktav JUST for listning,then a turned it an oktav back again. Its easier to hear how to tune the bass when its an oktav higher,then when i got the tune i want i change it back.Is it possible to change oktavs on the Mpc whitout pitching? or does anybody know how many procent pitch you have to move to get an oktav?

Yeah, in the Tune setting, each +-10 is a "half step" (semitone)..........
So, 120 is one octave (oktav).

Just tune your bass up by 120, then fine-tune it so it sounds right with your track, then just subtract 120 from the setting at that point.

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Yeeeaa.. THANKS ALOOOT MAN
Thats exactly what i wanted to know,120..
That should be in the tutor

im sure it is but i hear ya, when im working with very low bass i sometimes have this problem....its due to lack of extended bass end on my monitors so i often tune up to check the tuning then tune back down to where i want it.....sometimes the bass can sound a little flat even if its 120 below its original that was in tune....its your monitors missing out some of the harmonics which defines its pitch at the low frequency....

greg

I've experienced that low end tuning problem too but it never occured to me to tune up an octave and then back, nice tip!!

(but I still feel foolish for not having thought of that)

another tip when you have a sample you've messed with and believe it to be now slightly off key (ie is neither in c or c#) is too flash up your synth with an init patch on (say just a saw wave or something) and then use the tune function on your synth to incrementally fine tune the synth to the sample....when they fit make a note of how many cents your retuned to the synth to and that gives you the amount of shift you have to apply to the sample to get it back in the realms of western keys....

Noyd wrote:Yeeeaa.. THANKS ALOOOT MAN
Thats exactly what i wanted to know,120..
That should be in the tutor

It is, in the Multisampling Tutorials.