Whats a good keyboard for producing bass lines?

Hello everybody, i was wondering what is the best keyboard for a beginner to produce bass lines. And also, what kind of keyboard you guys use to produce? thanks

If on low budget i would say MicroKorg... Good synth basses...

SH101, all of Mr Moog's products, Waldorf's, there's loads of good bass synths out there.

Id get a good mixer first, then multiouts on the MPC, you'll be amazed at how good the bass end of the MPC can sound though a good eq.

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anything analog pretty much... so moogs, arps, and if you're on a low budget old yamahas like the dx-7 can make some great sounds when paired with EQ's or filters etc...

Another idea is getting the akai s900/s950 because it has the classic tone program built into it.

You can also sample things from your computer such as a tone from audacity, or even you can download some vst instruments and when you sample some notes into the mpc you can use 16 levels.

Listen to Mr Debauch and use a bit of creativity.

Bass is all around us dude.

My 5p's on the cheaper the better, overdrive, eq. Big smiles.

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Thanks everybody.might look into the dx-7

oh let me also suggest an electribe ea-1 even though it isn't a keyboard... you can make great bass sounds with that too.... and they are like 100 bucks. You can tweak that thing for months and still get new sounds out of it.

midi controller + trilian

I would have suggested a cheap, simple analogue mono synth like a Roland SH-09 a few years back, but there seems to be no such thing as a cheap analogue synth any more.

I second the using of an S950 for bass. You can work quick wonders with it's filters and VCF

Just experiment with your sampler and it's filters (resonance and filter envelope) for a while. You'll get something going soon enough.

MrMajesticJammin wrote:Thanks everybody.might look into the dx-7

I own a DX9 so can't comment too much on the DX7. My DX9 does low sub, spooked-up freq's, mellow vibes, sharp vibes, cut-through-highs and digital farting ok but not the fat, fat deep crunchy, biting bass that my analogues or the s950 can do. But then, with enough careful programming and fx you can make it sound how you want (apparently the DX7 is renowned as being a **** to program though).

The DX7 has more to it than the DX9 so maybe you can get what you need from it, but I personally wouldn't recommend it for just bass, but whadoo I know?
My DX9 is great for beautiful, full-sounding pads, fizzy, glassy highs, stabs, etc though.

Tell ya what though, you can sample virtually anything and then play about with layering it on top of itself, splicing other sounds on top of it, transposing it, bit crunching it, filtering it, etc, etc, etc till you get a fat bass.

Mess with your sampler enough and you'll find joy. A good place to start is by using a saw wave and then start layering more wave shapes on top of it. Experiment with wave shape layering and the low pass filter.

I like using my MPC for bass lines, you can sample whatever ones you really like.

Kilowax wrote:If on low budget i would say MicroKorg... Good synth basses...

I had the MicroKorg....definitely some meaty synth patches going on in that little beast. The downside to the MicroKorg is it's extremely confusing "patch editing" parameters. There are a lot of good parameters to edit but if you like tweaking and creating your own sounds be prepared to really spend some time learning the MicroKorg's editor.

I use Reason's synths and bass guitar on my tracks.

I had a microkorg for a while. good good sounds. i miss it. but it does take some getting use to because of the matrix style edit panel. I've f'd up n lost bass sounds that way. but still good synth for lil money.

I would also recommend DSI Mopho with the two sub-octave generators (one per oscillator) it can get big thick and mean you will be surprised. Its a beast for sure. but you may want the keyboard version unless u have a controller with a lot of knobs. I use my dsi desktop mopho with the MPK49 and I've set up a template preset with all parameters for tweaking. I've seen the mopho keyboards for as low as $400 on Craigslist in LA.

Cant forget the Phatty (slim or little it doesnt matter) its incredible with bass and its Moog so it's sound is unmistakable and familiar if you've loved soul music, neo soul, hiphop, dilla, tip, quest love, etc etc.

yamaha tx81z.
digital fm synthesis makes great basses.
in the tx81z you can turn sounds to mono, stack 8 sounds for maximum beef, and add 'fingered portamento'. this makes really great sounding basslines.
sells for under $100 and needs no maintenance or upkeep.

also great for electric pianos and organs...
there are few on ebay.

another great option is - sample basses on the mpc and run through a moog bass pedal.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yamaha-FM-Tone-Generator-TX81Z-Used-Rack-Mounted-/190548881043?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5d992e93

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Yamaha-TX81Z-FM-Generator-MIDI-Rack-Mount-Synth-Module-/120744180087?pt=Keyboards_MIDI&hash=item1c1ce9f977

I just sampled the TONE program from an s900 @ C1 and a Moog etherwave theremin through the s900 @ C1 and they make a sick sub bass. Thanks for the great ideas!