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26 26 TUTORIAL TUTORIAL Perfomance SERVED BY 27 27 Select Script editor > Preset > Factory > Perfomance > Unisono Portamento. Turn Mono mode on. MECHANIMAL MUTAGEN RECORDS FOLLOW HIM AT: Mechanimal launched its first live in October 2009 and has been blasting full power trance music around the globe since. Now with over 20 successful releases and ever growing experience Mechanimal released its debut album rocking dancefloors worldwide! Psychedelic e-Mag catches up with Mechanimal for this month’s music production tutorial: Making a bass line using NI Kontakt Saw wave Record a saw wave from your favorite VST or hardware synth in the key of your track (in this case G0). Make sure it’s a long sample such as two bars and recorded loud without clipping. Program Open an instance of Kontakt, program a bass line and drag your new saw wave sample into Kontakt. Filters Go to group insert effects and select a LowPass filter of your preference. I have chosen Ladder LP2 Key Mapping Press the spanner to open up the Sample Editor [RED], select Mapping Editor [BLUE] and drag the yellow zone to your key (in this case G0) [PINK] and strech the zone to fill the full keyboard [GREEN] Envelope Select Mod > Add Modulator > Elvelopes > AHDSR from the filter you selected. Here it’s ldrL2. Scroll down the Cut-Off envelope and adjust the settings to taste. In this case I have given it no attack, medium decay, low sustain and full release