Topic: How do you alter tuning?

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Replied May 19, 2020 at 13:09 #2579104
Henrik Ekblom
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It’s all done in the tuning box, top right corner of the bass tab. You can alter the tuning of the bass’ entire range with the Octave, Semitone, or Cent controllers, or alter the individual tones by using tuning system presets: Perfect, Bass, or Piano.

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Replied May 19, 2020 at 13:10 #2579110

Owen Packard
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Gotcha! Thanks!

Replied May 29, 2020 at 17:43 #2586783

Ronin731
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It appears that drop tuning doesn’t work in the traditional sense. The open strings stay the same. Example dropping down 1 whole step makes the 5th fret 4th string the low A etc. I too, use drop A and have same issue. The low B remains unaltered on 5th string open. This is gonna make things quite strange for all the drop tuning folks. I’m personally not happy about it.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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Replied May 30, 2020 at 04:22 #2587003

Anthony Reynolds
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Likewise, the first song I brought into the tool is in drop C. Same issue. Cannot tune the individual strings.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

Replied May 30, 2020 at 04:43 #2587008

Anthony Reynolds
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Now that I’ve read through the forum, this is an FAQ and I withdraw my question.

😉

Replied June 3, 2020 at 16:40 #2588818

Ronin731
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Using the chord circle chart helped but it didn’t alter the tuning of the virtual bass. The low A note is still 4th string 5th fret. Also it makes tweaking in piano roll a bit of a challenge.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied June 4, 2020 at 21:28 #2589276

hardidr
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Yeah i wish i didn’t have to agree… but i at min drop D on standard, and A on my 7string. General a half step down across.

Not sure how i am going to be able to synch on standard tuning only. I would imagine the thoughts of enabling this are in the works since a lot of us metal peeps are in the same boat. Unless there is some catastrophic issue with included tracks only being recorded in standard and not being able to separate the single drop tune.

I’ll probably have to track the line on my low notes on guitar, drop the whole tuning on EZBass and then let it convert into MIDI after importing from the recorded track. Will be hard on my brain to tune everything down and in the piano roll have to make everything except the low A or D a full step above to compensate the other strings.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied September 7, 2020 at 06:38 #2619517

ericguitarman
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I agree. This should be an easy to execute function. A lot of non Metal tunes are in alternate and weird tunings… heck so are some country songs. In fact every style I have ever encountered some times uses alternate tunings and Guitars themselves including Bass are being mass produced for specific alternate tunings. Would be a wise venture to make the tuning drop down menu actually work. It cant be that hard.

EZbass version: 1.0.5
Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Replied October 7, 2020 at 18:06 #2629192

hugomano
Participant

Please work on an update for drop tunings!

EZbass version: 1.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied October 13, 2020 at 21:39 #2631247

jonny canning
Participant

@toontrack the biggest users of your products are the metal community I cannot believe I bought this and it can’t be drop tuned – please please update this ! I like many others will have payed and find it now redundant

EZbass version: 1.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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Replied October 31, 2020 at 19:30 #2637347

tom denney
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For the love of god, update for lower tuning please

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Replied November 1, 2020 at 15:04 #2637676

handycam
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Need drop tuning guys. No way it can work with my project right now. really sad story!

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Replied November 6, 2020 at 03:12 #2640019

Raul.Aguirre
Participant

Really wish I had read up on the drop tuning issue from the metal community before purchasing. Please fix this, Toontrack.

EZbass version: 1.0.6
Operating system: Windows 10

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Replied November 19, 2020 at 08:22 #2645744

Butter Buns
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The metal ebx goes down to E flat so there doesn’t need to be a drop tuning option specifically since that note range will cover any low tunings.

EZbass version: 1.0.7
Operating system: Windows 10

Replied November 19, 2020 at 09:20 #2645753

jonny canning
Participant

I hear you but have you played in drop c or a# and then dropped it in the tracker ? It doesn’t cross over . If I wanted to use a midi keyboard I could just stay using the bass packages I already was using. Many invested for this feature and if you want something to be made better you have to criticise it’s flaws. You pay for it and they develop for that reason. Toontrack in fairness have always been good at listening and to be fair hit the nail on the head usually first time around. The tracking feature for me is it’s best feature as I just want to write songs as a guitarist and have the bass be tracked by file. It’s great in standard tuning but it isn’t for drop tuning and hardly any metal music is in standard these days.

EZbass version: 1.0.7
Operating system: Windows 10
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