Good MPC500 bass programs?

I just bought an MPC500 and am getting on just fine with it. The beats are flowing but I need bass.
I'm looking for drum'n'bass/dubstep style synth bass programs that work well with the MPC500 but there doesn't seem to be many around. I want to play the basslines on a midi keyboard rather than play pre-recorded loops.
Does anyone know of some nasty, filtered bass program resourses?

http://www.robpapen.com/synths/predator/

The best synth hands down.

Is that a program for MPC500? Looks like a computer synth......

I record a full octave to the MPC, I don't like the 12 levels feature. Definitly the best sounding soft synth I've ever used.

Good soft-synth tho. Thanks.

What I'm after are programs that I can download or buy and load them up as programs in the MPC500. I found a lot of electric bass programs but no decent synth basses.
Any ideas?

I would really suggest making your own. I was looking for the same at first and came to this conclusion. Most pre-packaged deals are 90% unusable. They give you what the company thinks is a good program for a certain genre of music. Doing it yourself you can create your own patches in the synth that are unique and have full control over parameters.

Just like the MPC comes with bass programs, I think they're garbage.

Yeah. The standard ones are weak and cheezy. Hasn't anyone with balls made any? I could make my own, but the whole idea of getting an mpc was to escape from "Computer Hell".

Dubness wrote:Yeah. The standard ones are weak and cheezy. Hasn't anyone with balls made any? I could make my own, but the whole idea of getting an mpc was to escape from "Computer Hell".

If you really don't want to touch a computer, you could sample a couple of bass notes from vinyl and then use 12 Levels.

Start sampling, you bought a (drum) sampler didn't you? Now use it

It's a lot of fun too, you can create your own basses on hardware/software synths... or 'lend' them from other records if that's your style.

Snerg

I started to sample bass from records also. Thing is, the 12 levels never sounds right to me. The higher the pitch, the shorter the note, the lower the pitch, the longer the note. I don't see how this is effective if you need one consistent note length to fit your groove.

Thats why I started expirementing with recording full 12 octave bass tones into the MPC from a soft synth. Then I have full control over the length inside the MPC.

I do play guitar, so I may just pick up a cheap bass and start recording live bass.

The Most Starving wrote:I started to sample bass from records also. Thing is, the 12 levels never sounds right to me. The higher the pitch, the shorter the note, the lower the pitch, the longer the note. I don't see how this is effective if you need one consistent note length to fit your groove.

More or less same reason I've now hooked my MPC500 up to Reason and is recording most of my basslines in there, then track both the Reason and MPC tracks to Logic.

Okay, so I'm being lazy - I should get creative and make my own bass samples. I just thought that someone, in the last decade of MPC sampling, would have put together some kick-ass bass programs that I could buy. Oh well, back to the mouse.......

The Most Starving wrote:I started to sample bass from records also. Thing is, the 12 levels never sounds right to me. The higher the pitch, the shorter the note, the lower the pitch, the longer the note. I don't see how this is effective if you need one consistent note length to fit your groove.

Thats why I started expirementing with recording full 12 octave bass tones into the MPC from a soft synth. Then I have full control over the length inside the MPC.

I do play guitar, so I may just pick up a cheap bass and start recording live bass.

isnt the 12 levels function to make each pad a different volume?

i didnt know you could set it up to make them a different tune too!

ive been doing this to get bass.

get kinetic or something its like 50 bucks or barrow your freinds and you can use it for 30 days without registering. and take the bass out of that with the keyboard and save each note as a .wav file then put it into your mpc.

or get a different soft synth and do the same

Dubness wrote:Yeah. The standard ones are weak and cheezy. Hasn't anyone with balls made any? I could make my own, but the whole idea of getting an mpc was to escape from "Computer Hell".

So plug in a bass and play your parts that way.