Bass & Subs · Session 01

808 Sub Bass

5 min · Mono · Patch cable required

 

One oscillator, a triangle wave, and the pitch slide that makes it read as an 808.

The trick most people miss is routing the filter envelope to the oscillator pitch — the same shape that opens the filter also drops the pitch, which is what gives the classic 808 its punch. The second half covers the feedback patch: running the headphone out back into the external input to overdrive the synth with itself, producing a heavier, different kind of saturation than the distortion module.

In this session

Triangle wave at range 32808 decay shapeKeyboard trackingEnvelope → pitch slideFeedback patchDistortion shaping

Tip: Leave the tone knob alone on sub bass. It adds high frequencies at the cost of the low end — exactly the wrong trade for this patch.

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