Reese Baselines - Abelton - using Analog, Operator & Wavetable synths

 Reese Baselines can be made with virtually any subtractive synth.

It's that low grungy rumbling sound that you will have heard a million times.

The synth can be analog or digital.

The original name comes from  Kevin “Reese” Saunderson.

In 1988 he released the classic "just another chance"

 

 

This was the first documented recording of what history from then on named a "Reese Bassline" .

Though it started off in House music it's often associated with DnB, Dubstep.

There are lots of ways to do this and its really down to personal taste what you finally come up with.

It’s basically  two or more detuned saw/triangle/pulse waves that battle.

Because they are slightly out of phase they undergo phase cancellation with one another. 

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Using Abelton's Analog Synth

1.load up a saw wave on oscillator 1, and a pulse or saw wave on 2. 

2. Detune each oscillator.

3. Add a lowpass filter, and  play with the resonance. 

4. Add distortion./ another filter... Notch ??

 

Here are the abelton files

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12PCDy8iboHHmjc2KbU706lUOVS4rNlQl?usp=sharing

 

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Using Abelton's Operator Synth

 

 

1. Switch to the last algorithm mode

2.  Set voices to 3-6

3. Oscillator A to SAW D (SwD)

4. Oscillator B to Saw D

5. Set both VCOs to 12dB and detune Osc B by 25 (fine adjustment)

7.  Add a pitch envelope

     Turn on Glide. Adjust time 

8. add a Filter. Use this to reduce the highs.

9.  I like 24 db, 4 pole filter MS2 mode.

     Add Resonance to 53 about

10 Add EQ Eight

11. Add saturation

You can download the Als file here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11T0U3Qi8lYsiG6ta_QUxtxP2wF3pHJUc?usp=sharing

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Using Abelton's Wavetable Synth

 

 

Like the two examples above we need 2 oscillators

The Abelton Wavetable synth has just this ... 2 oscillators

 

Osc 1

 

 

Turn off SUB 

Set Oct to zero

Set Oscillator 1 to 100%

Set Osc to classic

& use Basic Shapes 

(Square or Saw)

PW=66%

Osc 2

use Basic Shapes 

(Square or Saw)

PW=66%

 

Remember to detune each slightly.

 

Or you can set it to a FM synth for a bit of crazyness.

 

I like to add something like a notch filter and distortion at the end of the chain.

The abelton file is here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17VLxRpHnZ-SVu_ruDAE2IPcScNSAy3P-?usp=sharing