![]() This might seem like a lot but in many rap, trap, and bass music productions you need to be able to split low and mid frequencies. Set one side to 1ms, the other side to 10ms, feedback to zero, and Dry/Wet control to 100%. Want to go wider? Add a Delay on your high/mid chain. Then add a Chorus, a touch of short Reverb, and Saturator only on the High and Midrange chain you just created. One chain should be Multiband Compression with the highs and mids soloed, the other should be only lows below about 120Hz. Want more control? Filter the low frequencies and midrange. A quick method of widening 808sĪdd a slow chorus effect and mix in to taste with the Wet/Dry knob. ![]() We'll give you the simple one first, then the more complex processing method the mastering engineer will appreciate. This tends to make mixing beats easier because the sampled drum and synthesized 808 aren't fighting for space in the low end. You may have to lower the volume of the Operator chain to hear the acoustic kick sound.Īt this point you may also want to change the Attack time of Operator to around 5 seconds so the 808 fades in as the sample is fading out. Set the Scale parameter to 0% since we don't want the pitch of our sample to change. Put Operator and Pedal into a group and navigate to the chain section.Ĭreate an instance of Sampler. Let's make the distorted 808 hit even harder by mixing in a kick sample from an acoustic drum kit or any sample pack you have available. Mix a Sampled Kick In With The Synthesized 808 Sound They all have different sounds, but we like the Fuzz mode. Then try each of the distortion modes, OD, Distort, and Fuzz. Try the Ableton Pedal Plugin set to 36% gain with the Sub button On. They all will add more overtones to the frequency spectrum which is the goal. You can use any distortion effect you want. (If you're producing trap music, this almost is essential) Add Distortion It doesn't have the growl and punch that makes it exciting and powerful. Tons of hip hop uses this sound as is.īut at this point the 808 is all low end. If you wanted a basic 808 sample for your projects, you might be able to stop here. You can use that beast to make some cool 808 sounds with some small tweaks to things like attack and release times. Have any synth in software or hardware that can output a sine wave, control volume with an envelope, and adjust pitch? Turn the Pitch envelope on. Set the Decay time of the envelope to 50-80ms to mimic the pitch drift of the original hardware. Key Settings Create the basic volume envelope. Set the Attack to 0ms, Decay to 1.9ms, Sustain to -10dB, and Release to 1.5 seconds. One oscillator should be on by default, set to a sine wave. Since an 808 starts as just a simple sine wave, we can put any of the stock synths in Ableton Live can get us started. How To Make The Core 808 Sound With Stock Ableton Plugins Only ![]() Most of the sauce is all effects and processing of the basic 808 sound, as well as layering techniques where the 808 also triggers a kick sample in parallel. It doesn't matter if you use digital or analog synthesis. You can tune it, control the decay time, and shape the glide between notes.Īll those crazy 808s you hear in commercial music production start from a very, very simple sine wave source. ![]() The key point here is the original 808 bass is just a sine wave tuned very low. The bass sound it makes is powerful and mixes well with acoustic drum sounds so that alone opens up some interesting sound design opportunities. In modern times, "808" is usually slang for the bass drum sound the original drum machine could make. Drum machine? I thought this was a bass sound. Not one wanted them, so it became very cheap to buy the drum machine used and in certain emerging underground music circles, especially hip hop, producers started experimenting to see what it could do. Many people didn't like the synthesized drum sounds and wanted a drum machine that used samples of real drums, so it was discontinued in 1983. The Roland TR 808 Rhythm Composer was an early 80's drum machine that was a commercial failure. What is the Roland TR-808 and why does it matter?
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