Drum N Bass

I myself wrote a few drum'n'bass tunes with it. Mostly I use these features in this style:

1. Resample a long pad chord, then use it as a single sample for that classic atmospheric stuff.
2. Break and freeze the beat on the TTP - the coolest thing for d'n'b I can think of.
3. You can get great howling basses as well, especially with detuned sines into a wave shaper.

BTW, if you have the V-Synth Tweakbook, there are many articles on creating sounds essential for drum'n'bass.

.. but better, since it has VariPhrase. This technology puts it in a league of being a sampler that "does more", and since "regular" sampling works for creating pretty much anyhing, the V should be able to do eh .. well...

It only does what you make it do, but as I meant to convey above; if you can use any old sampler for D&B then you can more than certainly use a V-Synth to really wiz up some magix!

looks like I need to buy the tweakbook.
I still haven't gotten enough usage out of the TTP...
or the arpegiator for that matter.
Thanks for the info...I am still trying to get my drums right.
cheers
ian

A good place to listen to and buy DnB....and just a great sight
http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/

I listen to this station weekly these guys are great...and often give insight into equipment...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/fabioandgrooverider/index.shtml


By the way I am tryingto learn more ways to utilitze the Time trip pad like Artemio was stating.
I really just want a VC-2 so I can much up some sounds. May end up buying an XT.
Cheers
Ian

I produce dnb and was looking for keys/synth thing, and since I already got a virus module, the only thing left to innovate my sound was vsynth gt.

And it has some sharp edges, and some flaws as well. The analog modeling is quite good, and you can get a good punchy modulated bass as well as some devastating subs, it behave more analog than virus (when detuning), but has no unison (or has it ?).

The sampling stuff is good for atmosphere, but doing beat freezing is pointless, you can just do that kind of thing in your sequencer with glitch plugs.

So is it good ? Well it depends, it sounds way different than the virus, but can give some nasty artifacts when you go for low and punchy sounds (you can fight it with envelopes).

myspace <- bassline in control is made on gt, one patch for tops and one for low end, sound quality on ms is shit, but you can feel that analog synthesis isn't that bad as some say

Cheers