Topic: Ez bass jazz midi

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Replied May 18, 2021 at 18:21 #2752900

Olof Hermansson
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Hi, I see it is registered to your account, so you should have it in the Product Manager. Try refreshing Product Manager with the F5 key, make sure My Products is selected and that no search text has been entered there.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
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Replied May 18, 2021 at 18:37 #2752911

Dave 70
Participant

Thanks Olof, that worked!
Replied May 18, 2021 at 19:30 #2752947

James
Participant

Dave 70 wrote:

Thanks Olof, that worked!

Hi Dave one you’ve had a chance to dig into it I’d love to know how many chord tones the MIDI hits in the grooves – a comment / question on the forum earlier asked about other chord types apart from major and minor like Dom 7th, m7b5 etc. and I wondered if your progressions in the Jazz MIDI made use of 3rd, 5th and 7ths more than the Blues and Rock MIDI.

Have fun with it.

EZbass version: 1.0.9
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)
Replied May 19, 2021 at 14:37 #2753199

Dave 70
Participant

James wrote:

Dave 70 wrote:

Thanks Olof, that worked!

Hi Dave one you’ve had a chance to dig into it I’d love to know how many chord tones the MIDI hits in the grooves – a comment / question on the forum earlier asked about other chord types apart from major and minor like Dom 7th, m7b5 etc. and I wondered if your progressions in the Jazz MIDI made use of 3rd, 5th and 7ths more than the Blues and Rock MIDI.

Have fun with it.

EZbass version: 1.0.9
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

James,I’m a pro drummer but pretty new to bass/guitar and as an EZ bass user.

when I load the grooves I can only see major and minor chords. Is that what you wanted me to check and how?

If that’s correct, isn’t this a bit odd?

I use SD3 and EZ bass for my drum teaching business but also as a guitar and bass student.

it would be useful and obvious to expect all types of chords to be displayed.

I’m considering getting EZ keys too. Is that also an issue with that software?

I have to admit, as I’m not very experienced with the software and only starting to get into jazz chords on guitar, I’m not sure what the implications are.

Would appreciate your views.

Thanks

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Replied May 19, 2021 at 16:10 #2753230

James
Participant

Sorry I didn’t mean to ask too much – I just wondered because another question in the EZBass forum was about the kinds of chords you could pick – asking for 7th chords and other Jazzy ones like diminished or 7b5 chords, but as you correctly point out you can only pick major or minor in EZBass.

You can find that thread here: https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/special-chords-how-do-i-put-them/

EZKeys is a whole different situation – the reason people are probably asking for different chords on EZBass is that EZKeys handles them so well – you can choose Sus, 6, 7, maj7, add9, dim, 7b5, 7#9 chords easily, which if that is what you need it’s the best in the business.

The problem with EZKeys is that it’s so old that the UI and other features are now really out of date – especially compared to EZBass. There has been a thread on the EZKeys forum which started five (yes 5) years ago asking for upgrades and when would EZKeys 2 come out – still no news on that from our buddies at Toontrack so don’t hold your breath.

Good luck and best wishes

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Replied May 19, 2021 at 16:22 #2753234

Dave 70
Participant

Thanks, that’s very useful to know.

You telling me it’s still the best in the business should help my decision.

unfortunately, I was surprised to hear a friend of mine was unable to cross grade from SD2 to Sd3. I’m not only concerned I will have the same problem when a future version of SD comes out but potentially with EZ keys too if I get it now.

With regards to Ez keys, is it similar or would you use it in conjunction with something like unison midi chord pack.

Again, I’m new to this and haven’t figured out what all these products do exactly.

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Replied May 19, 2021 at 20:41 #2753309

James
Participant

Hi Dave just be careful with EZKeys – you can try them out which is well worth doing – you may love the ability to quickly generate keyboard tracks that sound great and cover any chord/genre you want – but when you want to dig into it a bit deeper the frustrations start to appear because it’s so old.

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