Up and Down on the Bass line

[I_Am_Bic_Pentameter]

So anyway, I was looking at a sampler video or some such thingy, possibly posted on here, and it was going on about re-creating the natural upstroke downstroke of a bass line rather than just plonking the notes in machine gun fashion making it sound unreal. Useful thing.

Anyway, in the absence of that little feature what's a good way around that.

Thanks

[Khazul]

Manual un-quantizing and a filter or two different samples.

If using an electric bass sample, then might want a combination of regular LP filter and a steep notch to cut metalic overtones from the string, oruse two samples and set them to different velocity ranges.

The manual un-quantizing is for a natural alternate push drag around the beat/rhythm etc.

Want some 70s/80s groove? - do octaves to simulate the slap and pop thing - hard deep slap with nice deep sub on the low note and and a very different tonal more ringy sound on the high note.

[I_Am_Bic_Pentameter]

Thanks for the detailed answer

Could you narrow it down to one button I could press

[Khazul]

The buy button on a bass guitar?

[I_Am_Bic_Pentameter]

I've turned it up to 11

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by Khazul

Manual un-quantizing and a filter or two different samples.

If using an electric bass sample, then might want a combination of regular LP filter and a steep notch to cut metalic overtones from the string, oruse two samples and set them to different velocity ranges.

The manual un-quantizing is for a natural alternate push drag around the beat/rhythm etc.

Want some 70s/80s groove? - do octaves to simulate the slap and pop thing - hard deep slap with nice deep sub on the low note and and a very different tonal more ringy sound on the high note.

Nice tips in there Khazul!