EZBass . . .yet again

[Harry Lord]

Now I know this has been suggested numerous times. I know you have recommended taking the lowest note from an EZKeys line and running it through any bass simulator and yes, I have done that several times and it does work – but it misses a couple of opportunities for your product range:
First – you have the capability to provide the multiple samples of iconic bass guitars as you have done with EZKeys for both pianos and other keyboard instruments – Fender Jazz and Precision, Paul McCartney’s Hofner Violin, an upright Double Bass, 6-String Baritone as often played by Jet Harris – plenty of opportunities for you.
Second (and more importantly) – I believe an EZBass module could provide a drag and drop link between EZDrummer and EZKeys as it provides both the rhythmic link to the drums in a classic backline and the harmonic content of the keyboard. For example, you could write a bass riff, drag it into EZDrummer and get a suggested MIDI accompaniment as a variation on the current Tap2Find feature. The bass riff could also be dragged into EZKeys to suggest a chord accompaniment – or vice-versa, the EZKey chords and rhythm dragged into EZBass to create the bass line (and from there to EZDrummer to create the complete backing).

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[Richard Grills]

Hi,
I just want to add my support for this comment. I have been a guitarist for 50 years with some minimal keyboard capabilities. I have been using EZDrummer and EZKeys for a while now and love both products. I also invested in an EZMix bundle which is not as impressive as I had hoped. I use Cubase 7.5 which has so may great music creation features including some preset mixing solutions similar to those in EZMix.

However the biggest struggle for me is getting a really good bass line to go with any music I create or covers I am playing with. I have a midi keyboard and a Roland guitar synth. Playing bass with either of these is not very effective as the Roland is touchy and doesn’t play like a real guitar and a keyboard cannot be played like a guitar.

I have tried Amplesound’s MIDI Guitar product. They offer Bass solutions but to be honest you have to be a good keyboard player to use them. They intend to add bass rifts to their product soon, but based upon my test of their guitar product I suspect it will be very limited.

Having a EZBass product in Toontracks portfolio would be awesome.. I have nothing more to say about that, Your system is the best and adding bass guitar to the mix would be the final step providing us with all that we need. I hope it is in the works.

RG

[Frans Schoffelen]

I have already written i on this one a couple of times and just now on the one above this post. I can’t express enough however how important it is for the market share of EZ drummer and EZkeys to fill the gap. Before someone else does.

[wilky960]

Yes… Look and feel of EZKeys but with bidirectional hooks into EZDrummer so you can find bass lines and drum patters that work together. Kinda like “Hey EZBass play me bass line that goes with this beat”.. or “Hey EZDrummer play me a beat that goes with this bass line”. That would be super cool and I think huge time saver for a lot of people willing to pay for it. It would be almost impossible to have EZDrummer without EZBass (or vice versa) then (= more $$$ for Toontrack). Groove Monkey is kind of doing this without the EZKeys functionality. Hopefully someone will come up with a product soon.

[Garry Stubbs]

Gentlemen,

Those posts were very prescient. I think today Toontrack may just have given you (us) what we have been looking for.

Best

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