This video, via SynthMania, takes a quick look at an old-school sequencing trick, using a drum machine to rhythmically clock an arpeggiator (or sequencer).
It’s demonstrated with the Larry Heard (Mr. Fingers) Can You Feel It bass line, on a Roland TR-909 and a Juno-60. The same basic approach can be used to create more complex sequences, and shifting sequences where the rhythmic sequence and the melodic sequence are of different lengths.
Cool video, but a bit misleading. Unless your arpeggiator is set to those same parameters, you’re not going to magically come up with the “Can You Feel It” bassline.
It’s not like the Juno-60’s arpeggio had much variety. Read pages 19 and 20 of the manual — http://www.houseofsynth.com/hos-downloads/manuals/Roland/Roland-Owners-Manuals/Roland-Juno-60-Owners-Manual.pdf
Or just download TAL’s U-NO-LX to get a pretty damn good approximation of it.
Getting the arp right should not be a problem.
where can I find the patch basics for this type of bass ?
It’s a SquareBass
These days, we just use MIDI clock for that….
And you’ll get straight eighth notes.
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