How Do People Use The Multiple Tracks Option in Ezbass?

[andycamb]

Just learning Ezbass and I notice there is an add track option.. What are the advantages of this? Wouldn’t you have two bassline playing at the same time or am I not understanding the use of this function?

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Scott]

Only one track in the Song Track can be played back at one time. It’s useful for trying different bass lines or arrangements.

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[andycamb]

So I could import a midifile from drums on one track and have grooves from the ezbass library playing on another and compare the two?
How does that work regarding the different tracks following the same chord progression? I haven’t experimented
with this function yet. I thought it was a sort of linked idea of a chords track and midi playing the chords above it. Can you have two different chord progression tracks as well? I’m not sure I understand this properly yet?

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Michael Gremillion]

From what I have learned through trial and error, when you start a new trk, is also starts a new song trk. This way you can try different things out and compare. What I haven’t found out yet is the ability to copy/paste midi blocks from one trk to another.

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[ronnieg]

I use the extra Tracks/s as a scratch pad. You can pull midi down into it, grooves …the lot.. just like track one.
Edit midi on the groove edit page without worrying you’re making changes that you’ve got to unpick to get back to somewhere you were before.

Use it like another page in a note book where you can do all the workings out and then copy the result to your main track.

Also don’t you find when looking for “that” Groove or Midi to complement your song and you come across something that is a WOW! …but not for this song :-(.

I just pull it down into a spare track and change the track name to “good bits and pieces” keep it without losing the focus on what I’m really (should be) looking for. I then go back and get them later.

Where it really works for me it trying out fills you want to place in the song…. always looking for an appropriate but not over the top fill with the bass . I use it in SD3 and EZB…… saves carving up your main Track.  Just copy that few bars leading in and out of the song transition and practise away.

hope that helps

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 7

http://www.songramp.com/homepage.php?userid=16509

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[andycamb]

Hi thanks for your reply.. Sorry to be a nuisance. In your reply you said you can rename the tracks?
How do you do that? I have been reading the manual. I know how to add them but don’t know how to rename them.
Can you rename the song parts anything you like as well or do you have to use the names Toontrack have provided,intro,verse,chorus etc? I have been doing that from the drop down menu via right clicking.
Update I figured it out you just double click on the text of the track name label (Track 1..2…3 etc) and it will allow you to enter your own name for track, instead of it just being a number.

Can’t figure out how to do the same thing with the “Verse Chorus etc labels” If you were doing a style switch, you might want to label the verse with the style,such as Reggae verse, Rock chorus and so on..

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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[ronnieg]

Hi AndyCamb,

Glad you figured out the Track renaming – it’s a cool way to play about with things and know where they are.

I don’t believe you can change /add names to the Midi Blocks. Double clicking takes you into midi or style editing. I’m kinda thinking

that would be useful too……but the scope for absolute Captain Carnage on the Midi line is obviously the risk.

You originally also asked “So I could import a midifile from drums on one track and have grooves from the ezbass library playing on another and compare the two?”

Not  really no. You can import drum midi but it will just read it and [lay the bass guitar You want drum sounds?….. you have to use your Drum VST .

Hope that helps.  You can play away to your hearts content and not worry about ruining anything . Use a combination of Tracks, Control Z or keep saving your file in the file menu.

R

 

R

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 7

http://www.songramp.com/homepage.php?userid=16509

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[DannyK757]

Hello does anyone know how to make duplicate tracks, so I can EQ the highs on one and the lows on another track?

EZbass version: 1.1.1
Operating system: Windows 10

[andycamb]

Export your Ezbass track as audio or freeze it to audio in your DAW (if your DAW does that)

Copy the Ezbass audio track to another track,  so you now have two audio bass tracks in your DAW. . You can rename them Bass High and Bass Low..

Eq each one however you like and blend them together using volume sliders

Could then set up a Bass group track or bus and send both differently equed bass tracks to that bus track and control them together.

You can do a similar thing, by using the multi out function and Eq or put other effects on each one of those differently.

Look up a free plugin called Bass Professor 2, That might do what you want, without you having to mess about doubling tracks etc.

Just put it after Ezbass. You can great a lot of variation in tone using that..

Hope that helps.

EZbass version: 1.1.1
Operating system: Windows 10

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