Formant Motion + Trash 2 =

[tpantano]

Amazing!

Seriously, if you have any of Korg's synths that can record formant motion, I heavily recommend you acquire a copy of iZotope's Trash 2.

Here's a really bad example (especially the percussive samples) of what you can do, thrown together in just a few minutes–
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1715217/kick-sn ... ksnare.m4a

Spend some more time properly ensuring that you have a consistent subbass band (or simply chop out the band altogether by bypassing it in Trash, then add in a different sub later) and voila, you've got a monster bass.

Patch was created simply by creating a nice and rich carrier timbre on my R3, using one of the stock formant motions as my modulator, then running it into Trash. From there, I used it in multi-band mode to apply a different distortion algorithm to various frequency ranges (you can have up to eight different distortions total, two in serial for each of the four bands), ran it into the Convolution engine using a 'Creep' IR and spreading it for extra stereo width, then each band was individually side-chained compressed really sloppily. If I had spent more than 10 minutes on this I'd've had a serious monster bass.

So, if you're in the market for either a multi-band distortion, multi-band compressor + gate, convolution engine, multi-mode EQ (including filter-based band modes) or even a nice vintage delay unit– Trash 2 offers it all. It is, however, a bit pricy, but offers many more features than your average software distortion.