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Roland TR-808, bass

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Contest: Roland TR-808 played bass on Welcome to Heartbreak by Kanye West (2008)

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Settings

osc
sub square, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub square -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
90 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.2
envelope
A 1 ms D 300 ms S 0.8 R 250 ms; deep 808-style sub carrying the whole low end; filter env amount 0.1
modulation
mono
effects
none, drive
notes
A booming TR-808-style sub tone (the record's title feature) is tuned to the root of every chord, driving the track's minimal low end.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem