Remaking the bass synth from the 2014 song "Kaleidoscope Love" by Kaytranada can be an exciting challenge for any synthesizer enthusiast. Here’s how you can create the "Kaleidoscope Love" bass patch and play this iconic sound on most hardware or software subtractive synthesizers (Serum, Vital, Pigments, Prophet, Korg, Moog, etc). We've included the preset download directly for your convenience, but we strongly recommend you use our programming tutorial to recreate it yourself.
Original Audio
That big, fat warm plucky bass in Kaytranada’s edit of “Kaleidoscope Love” starts at 0:00 and anchors the track’s low end. The tone is basically a sine-based sub with a short amp envelope for a plucky attack, run through distortion or saturation for midrange grit and shaped with EQ for extra low boom. It’s a simple, focused patch designed to sit under the kick while contributing audible harmonics when driven. Hear it from the opening bar and throughout the verses and drops.
Our Remake of The Bass Synth sound
This audio clip is how close we've matched the original tone of the bass synth from the song "Kaleidoscope Love" by Kaytranada, giving you a reference point as you design your own synthesizer preset. Play it as often as you need to familiarize yourself with the nuances of the sound.
Synth Patch Programming Recipe
Getting Started
- Start by initializing your synthesizer to a plain saw with no filter, modulation or effects. For soft synths use the "init"/"default" preset or the the button to reset all parameters to their default factory values.
- No two synths are exactly alike, so treat the values below as approximate, and use your ear.
- Percentage values (e.g. 50%) represent the relative position of a knob or slider within its full range. The full range of each parameter may differ from synth to synth, so use your ear.
Note: the patch settings may slightly differ in the Syntorial challenge.
Explore More
- AlunaGeorge – Kaleidoscope Love (Kaytranada Edition) : Bass line discussion (Reddit)
- Patch Request: Kaytranada – Kaleidoscope Love (Sine Wave Distortion) (AudibleGenius community)
- Kaytranada “99.9%” Synth Sounds — Reverb Machine
- Thumpy KAYTRANADA Style Bass Synth (House / Future R&B) — YouTube
- KAYTRANADA Gear & Equipment — Equipboard
Preset Downloads
Don't want to learn synth programming now? Use our synth preset as your starting point and tweak it from there. Register an account with Audible Genius and download the presets for free for the following synths:
- Vital
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