How to Make an Acid House Bassline: A Complete Guide

Everyone loves that classic Roland TB-303 sound, perhaps the best-known (and heard!) squelching low-pass filter, vicious envelope modulation, and when you whack it through some distortion, boy does it squeal!

Acid house kicked off the 303 sound revival in the late 1980s, bringing an obscure Roland synth back from the dead. It featured heavily on tracks throughout the 90s and continues to be popular today, with the classic Acid House bassline pattern making a comeback. Back then, you could pick up a used 303 at a junk sale for a few bucks; today, a bashed-up old unit will cost you around £2500! Don’t worry, though—there are plenty of hardware and software clones available, with Audiorealism Bassline being a firm favorite, as well as official re-released units from Roland Corp.

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Attack Magazine has written a great article on how to make an Acid House bassline using Audiorealism’s Bassline VST instrument.