The transition between Slap and Pop is done by velocity. Lower velocity will Slap and higher will Pop. I’m not at the office today (it’s a national holiday in Sweden) and I don’t remember exactly where the transition takes place but maybe you can try it out and find it?
The 119 velocity adjustment did not make my bass pop like fireworks on new year’s eve. Then I realised something from mimicking a slap/pop on an imaginary bass guitar: A bass player pops on a higher pitched string before slapping onto a lower pitched string. This means that in EZbass your pop note must sit above your slap note – higher up on the piano roll.
In the modern EZbass library:
Add two notes (A and B) in the grid editor and space A an octave above B;
Nudge A to about a 16th note before B;
Select the slap/pop articulation for A and B;
Hit play;
Happy new year!
Achieving the slap/pop articulation in this way is a very intuitive and accurate representation of slapping and popping on an actual bass guitar. Adjusting the velocity for A (or B, or any note for that matter) changes the note’s dynamic, not the articulation assigned to it.
With high velocity I get the typical Pop articulation for all notes higher or equal to C2. In fact I believe even lower velocity is the Pop articulation, just less audible.
For everything below C2 I only get the Slap (thumb) articulation. So it means I can’t Slap the first two frets on the A string. Is this intended?
EZbass version: 1.0.3 Operating system: Windows 8.1
Similar to what Errol_J wrote……. aren’t the lower strings ‘Slapped’ and the upper strings are ‘Popped’? I don’t understand why the tempo of the song would change the manner of this style that (I think) I’ve seen Bass Players perform. I opened the manual tonight looking for which strings are ‘Popped’ and which are ‘Slapped’. Confusing……….. thanks for reading. I hope you can explain apparently, what I don’t understand about Slap Bass playing.
