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Any ios emulation of the Novation Bass station?
...or close in sound?
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DRC is very close, it has some extra stuff and one of the best VA synths available. The DRC vst gets a lot of use here.
That giant high resolution filter dial on the BSII is very satisfying. Still getting feature updates, microtuning and other goodies a few months ago. Great keybed with aftertouch and everything sends CC, very useful as a midi controller.
If anyone reading this has both...
Try midi mapping almost all of those DRC parameters to the corresponding controls on the Novation and plug your iOS device output into BS II audio in.
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It depends if you are referring to the original BassStation or the BassStation II
RetroBass in Groovebox from Ampify is pretty close to the original BassStation and has more OSC shapes available.
For BSII then like BGS says above, DRC is pretty close.
BUT...owning a BSII....nothing else sounds exactly like it or gives me the same grin that the BSII itself does, especially when you get it way down low
BS2 is one of best mono analog synths available under 500€. It's sound is even comparable with old analog monster Roland SH5. It sounds super fat, basses are beautifully round and strong... Fast LFOs and FM modulations makes it synth with incredible sonic range.
With all respect to DRC, it is not even remotely close to BS2 sound and capabilities. BS2 filters, super fast LFO and overall sound destroys almost rverything available on iOS
I have few HW analog synths but if i should sell them all and but jusy single one HW synth - my choice will be BS2. It totally rocks for every thinkable sound type and it is totally irreplaceable by anything available on iOS.
My five cents
BS2? Nah the Super BS is where it's at! Absolutely love mine.
Only joking I love all 3 BS models.
Surely you mean 4 (or maybe even 5) haha
The Super BS is the only version I have never owned or used
Not that I'm a BassStation fan or anything, but there was
1. the original keyboard version - which is where I cut my subtractive synthesis and MIDI teeth way back in the good ol' days before Steinberg had invented VST.
2. the rack version which had more user memories, more usable MIDI parameters and clock syncable LFO's
3. the Super with its Sub OSC, Ring Mod and noise generator, plus analog distortion and chorus.....
4. and the BS II which has an all analog signal path ..... this is where I am at currently
5. (could the MonoStation be classed a fifth version ?) .. I've recently started hanging here too
All models are pretty amazing, and all available secondhand still, which says something....if they have lasted 20 + years, they have been lovingly cared for
If you are in the market for a MonoSynth, you could do a lot worse than any of the BassStations !
Ah yes you're right I would count it as five versions. Isn't the mono station's synth a bit different to the BS2?
Anyway as much as I love many ios synths they can't quite touch a good analogue hardware synth for low down punchy bass. 😃
They definitely cannot, and that goes for any analogue emulated synth, software or hardware....for the middle frequencies they can do an OK, even great job, but when you go to the extreme high or low, or the extreme fast/slow on envelopes etc... then they can get nowhere near....and with the BS's from Super onwards...that analogue distortion too
I'm still exploring, but yes the MonoStation synth isn't completely the same synth as a BS2, it has some things missing, there is only one envelope and LFO, and no 'Acid' filter type for example...and I think it has some things the BS2 doesn't, slower LFO...and of course the automation .... but it is definitely a BassStation at it's heart.
In Novations own words ... which I fully agree with so far
So....
No, then?
Well what exactly constitutes this mythical unquantifiable ‘extra’ that makes hardware synths have more balls than iOS synths? Is an iOS generated gated-on-off sine wave or square wave inferior to an externally generated one?
An analog synth outputs a signal which is continuous.
A digital synth outputs a very good guess.
We live in a world where both options are available in many shapes and sizes and often at crazy low prices.