Ian Bland – Creating the Best Bass Sounds

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Course Lessons

• Course Preview
• Rolandcloud Juno 106 & various plugins
• Creating a sequenced bass
• Arturia: Prophet
• LennarDigital: Sylenth1 & RolandcloudSH-2
• Bass guitar modelling synths

Live Q & A

• Q & A

Meet Your Teacher
Ian Bland

Ian Bland has over 30 years’ experience in music production, with hits across many different labels and under many different monikers, his biggest claim to fame being founder of rave band Dream Frequency and more recently Dancing Divaz. He’s featured on ‘Top of the Pops’ and having 4 tracks featured in cult classic: ‘Human Traffic’,
He is smashing it today with releases on Todd Terry’s: InHouse and other big names, he also runs his own label: Maison Records. His lessons are full of next level techniques and tips to up your production game.

About This Course
Bland moves away from the stock plugins available in Logic to showcase some of his personal favourite synthesizers.

From virtual models of bass guitars to cutting-edge keyboard synths, this course is a must for anyone wishing to expand their sound library.

You will learn:

• MIDI Mapping with external plugins
• Making effective effect chains
• Arpeggiating a bassline
• Transforming the envelope of a sound

Plus demonstrations from plugins:

• Rolandcloud: Juno 106 & SH-2
• Arturia: Prophet
• Lennardigital: Sylenth
• IK Multimedia: MODO BASS
• Native Instruments: Kontakt
• Slate Digital: effects library
• UAD Teletronix LA-2A compressor
• Softube: RC24 reverb
• Nicky Romero: Kickstart sidechain compressor

Lessons: 

1. Rolandcloud: Juno 106 & various plugins
The Juno-106 is a Rolandcloud plugin based on the 1984 hardware synth of the same name. Bland showcases the plugin in action with external effects to enhance the sound.

• Introduction
• Rolandcloud: Juno-106 demonstration
• Slate Digital plug-ins demonstration
• UAD Teletronix: LA 2A & Slate compressors demonstration
• Boz Digital Labs: Mongoose demonstration
• Creating an auxiliary channel & Softube: RC 24 reverb
• Nicky Romero Kickstart sidechain compressor
• Using both ears and eyes for mixing

2. Creating a sequenced bass

Still using the Juno-106, Bland creates a bass sequence using an arpeggiator

• Creating an automatic sequence with an arpeggiator
• Modifying the Juno-106
• Adding variation with an LFO

3. Arturia: Prophet
The Arturia: Prophet was the first programmable synth available and it still holds up today in this expanded recreation. 

• How do you MIDI map your keyboard to Juno plugin?
• Mapping a MIDI controller to the Juno-106
• Arturia: Prophet demonstration
• Practice music theory
• Sound design with Arturia: Prophet
• Automation with Arturia: Prophet
• Making a rhythmic bass with Arturia: Prophet.

4. LennarDigital: Sylenth & Rolandcloud: SH-2
LennarDigital: Sylenth and Rolandcloud’s SH-2 are showcased.

• Adding bass and rhythmic sequencing
• Question: Is Sylenth available as a 32 bit or 64 bit plugin?
• Roland: SH-2 demonstration

5. Bass guitar modelling synths
Sometimes a track needs a more organic, groovy feel and a bass guitar modelling synth provides various smooth bass sounds that fit perfectly into house tracks. Bland shows off two of his favourites here.

• IK Multimedia: MODO BASS. 
• Native Instruments: Kontakt

6. Live Q&A
Fans ask Ian Bland for his opinion on the Omnisphere 2 and ask him the best ways to achieve a perfect bass sound in this Q&A.

• Would you mix different basslines, such as the Juno & 303?
• What do you think of Omnisphere 2?
• Do you always put the EQ at the end of your chain? Does it make much difference?
• To have the perfect result, do you always have to sidechain the drums together?
• Can you automate the envelope of the Juno 106?
• Synapse Audio: The Legend demonstration. 
• Outro segment

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