However, for many Acid had already been debuted several years prior, when Indian musician Charanjit Singh recognised the instrument’s untapped and unintended potential to create liquid basslines.

His album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat was the result of various experimentations with the unit and is now widely recognised as possibly the first album featuring Acid basslines. Unfortunately, “Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” had only a minor impact on the development of electronic music at the time and it was when Phuture’s “Acid Trax “ was released in 1987 that the worldwide spread of Acid House took hold. In this tutorial we’re going to show how to make an Acid House bassline using the AudioRealism ABL2 a popular TB-303 emulation. You can closely replicate this tutorial using any DAW or plugin. This allows us to create our own midi pattern in Live’s piano roll where each midi note triggers one note as opposed to PATTERN where every midi note will trigger a pre-programmed factory pattern in the ABL. Like the original TB-303, the ABL2 has a single oscillator with either a sawtooth or square wave. The sawtooth has a thinner and more aggressive tone in comparison to the more full bodied square wave, so we will use the sawtooth for this patch. We’ve kept things simple yet effective with the below pattern and the neutral/factory settings on the ABL. Īt this point, the bassline sounds flat and dull. To inject some much needed life, we’re going to play around with the ABL2 settings prior to any external processing. This way you can always return to your starting point! Top Tip: Take a screen-shot of your initial setting, as you are likely to heavily tweak this patch. To do so, we’ve increased the DISTORT, CUTOFF, RESON and ENV MOD by turning them all clockwise to taste. ABL2 settings tweaked Step 2: Filter Modulation #Acid pro 4.0 tutorials mod#

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