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I’ve always used D16’s Punchbox for kick drums, it has such a good interface that looks like old hardware processing racks. But more recently I’m using it for sub basses.
It has a sinewave generator that is great for sub basses, but some of the effects can be used to subs too: the resonant filter unit, the excellent distortion unit, and EQ for boosting some frequencies. I also use pre-amps on the bitcrusher for some drive, just with no bitcrushing/sample reduction on.
You can move these in any order you want and with the filter and eqs to boost and cut the sound and 2 distortions (including the bitcrusher) you can get some really nice saturated sub basses.
The pitch envelope of the Sine generator can get the subs really nice and punchy too.
When designing subs in Punchbox I switch the left hand sections off (Clicks, Tops, Tools) as they add transients and clicks to the top end of a kick and I don’t want them for a sub bass. I then normally take a kick preset and switch to the sinewave generator, take the envelope amounts down so the pitch increase is less dramatic. Then I take the limiter at the end off, and make the sure the bitcrusher is not ‘crushing’ by putting the sample rate up.
Then I design the sub bass, I start with using the bitcrusher for saturation and turning up the pre-amp, then I use the EQ normally to filter it down and boost part of the sub I like. Then the heavy distortion unit which I tweak to taste, and finally filter it down with the filter. Once this is setup I can get dramatically different results by moving the crushing the distortion units around in the fx chain. I hit record and then just tweak stuff and you can make lots of sub bass samples in a few minutes.
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