How do you get basslines

My Setup: MPC 2500 and Logic Pro 9.
Status: Rookie

My problem is, I can not get good sounding basslines to play over my track. I sample bass, do some filtering, 16 levels, original pad on 8, and for some reason, I can not get the bassline to sound in tune with my track.

My friend has a keyboard (motif) that has preloaded basslines and it was so easy to play in tune.

I also have logic 9 and I record sounds from logic into my mpc but I do not have bassline sounds in logic otherwise I would just use that to record into my MPC. Anyone know of a kit or something?

Anyone care to share their bassline program with me?
Any tips for me?
Anyone know where to get bassline sound kit for logic 9 pro?

Much help appreciated. Thanks

There are a lot of different vsts and samples that do what you are looking for. It might help to describe what kinds of sounds you are looking for.

[edited to include sample libraries]

Most daws already have an algorithm that allows you to make adjustments to your audio samples.

In other words, you can tune/pitch your audio to match whatever key you're looking for.

you can go into logic, pull up a bass patch, set the tempo sorta low, draw a note in c1, then, do it all the way up to c2 or c3, record those to audio, chope them up, then drag the audio files into my mpc.
then find out the key of my beat, load up the right samples and play it from there.

or just track out your 2500 beat, and add a bassline in logic after you multitrack your bet out. you might want to get a cheap little midi keyboard if you dont want to draw the notes if you do it this way.

use ur ear, if a bass note doesn't sound right dial in the tune to make it sound right, practice makes perfect

Lampdog wrote:

TreCipher617 wrote:use ur ear, if a bass note doesn't sound right dial in the tune to make it sound right, practice and experimentation makes perfect

very tru, experimentation is key, trying out different methods and going about stuff in new ways broadens ur knowledge and skillz, lamp knows!

If you sample a (bass) sample of a record it might not be in tune with the chromatic scale.

logic has a number of synths -- make some bass sounds.

Use one of the logic synths and use a sine wave and fine tune it with the filters and oscillators and you'll have a nice sub bass rumbling your spot.

Update

I found some bass in logic pro 9. Now I have to learn how to fine tune, filter etc using logic. I'm new to the program. Thanks for the help people.

dont sleep on the sculpture plug in. it has some dope instruments inside it.

temetrepo wrote:Use one of the logic synths and use a sine wave and fine tune it with the filters and oscillators and you'll have a nice sub bass rumbling your spot.

Once again

ok. A sinewave is a sinewave because its a pure frequency without any overtones.
A filter is used on waveforms to filter out a range of overtones.

What does it aall mean?

sinewave + filer = unlogical = no effect on the sinewave at all

peace

i think he meant one of those sinewave settings on some synths that arent really true sinewaves.