George Michael - I Want Your Sex Bassline

[Rumbler101]

Hey,

I am really curious as to how they achieved the bassline of I Want Your Sex as it is very unique.

George and Chris Porter had explained below the process:
"We were working on a song, again we just had a Juno, LinnDrum and DX7, and we connected them all up so that we could run them off MIDI. After doing some programming, we returned to the studio the next afternoon, I pressed 'play' on the tape machine, the MIDI obviously wasn't right and everything started making these weird noises. The drums were triggering random sounds on the Juno and DX7. starting to make what you now hear as the intro on 'I Want Your Sex': a strange squelching, pulsing bass sound.
I went, 'Oh, damn, I'll reset it,' and George said, 'Hang on a second, hang on a second! That sounds really good, doesn't it?' I said, 'It's a bit weird,' and he said, 'Yeah, but if we just take a bit out here and a bit out of there we might be able to use it...' We recorded a few bars of that odd squelching noise, and then it morphs into the song, at which point the bass become the bass part and just the Juno, LinnDrum and DX7 provide the overall landscape."

"So what happened was, we were writing a much faster Pop song that I did have in my head, called 'Johnny Sex'. We needed to trigger a sound off the Juno 106, and in order to do it we had to take the drum pattern down to half speed. It didn't quite work, but it accidentally set the Juno off to a random pattern, which became the pumping noise at the bottom of 'I Want Your Sex'. I thought it sounded really good, really tribal, and it gave me a totally different idea which I worked around, I just played the other stuff and had it sequenced."

I think what happened was this:
They recorded a MIDI sequence for the 106 and DX7.
They recorded the Sync 48 signal from the Linn at half the tempo of the original song: turning the tempo of the Linn from 100 to 50 and recording it on a tape machine track.
MIDI is 24 PPQN so playing the tempo at 50 from the Tape Machine with the sync signal to the Sync In of a Midi sequencer had made the sounds play back at the real tempo of the song: 100.

Is my thinking right on that? There's some missing information there but I'm also curious as to why the conversion didn't get them the result that they wanted? The final song is still fantastic but I'm curious if my thinking is right?

I'm a little unsure of the dividing and multiplying of the PPQN speed. That's a bit confusing so maybe someone can explain that also?

Thanks.