Loosing volume in a simple bass line

[Jerry Oakes]

Hi,

I have noticed when your do a simple bass figure such as A, G, F or even E, D#, C#, B, A, G# the volume of the first note is as expected, but the other notes get progressively quieter.

Velocities are all even, there are no filters, I’ve chosen playing with a pick and it happens across Modern, Vintage, Classic and Hard Rock.

With other bass vst’s in the same DAW (Cakewalk) this does not happen.

Any ideas ?

J

Operating system: Windows 11

• This post was modified 3 months ago by Jerry Oakes.

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[Victor Kennedy]

Sometimes if the note and/or leading note have a hammer-on or slide assigned it will alter the sound / volume of the notes…I do notice similar things, but I also always go in a nd go through the song/track bar by bar and do any little edits to notes / volumes / etc etc…hope this helps you somewhat.

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[John]

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Hi,

as Victor suggests, please visit the Grid Editor and inspect your notes. E.g. if all notes are overlapping and have been treated as joined legato notes. If so, just click the small legato button above the grid to separate them.

BR,
John

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[Jerry Oakes]

A huge thank you to Victor and John, problem solved.

The notes’ lengths were such that they were “touching” each other’s velocity stave.

Many thanks again,

J

[Billy 86]

Jerry Oakes wrote:

A huge thank you to Victor and John, problem solved.

The notes’ lengths were such that they were “touching” each other’s velocity stave.

Many thanks again,

J

As a favor to the community, you might label this as solved so others dealing with this same issue might be helped.

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