Slide playing notes instead of sliding

[Basil67]

Hi all

in the intro of a song I have a slow slide in from E to G# and it used to work fine.

Now all of a sudden (not sure what I did, or if it’s a bug) it plays the notes between E and G# separately during the slide, instead of an actual slide.

 

Any ideas what switch I accidentally hit?

 

/Bjorn

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Can you send us a screenshot of what it looks like in the Grid Editor?

Or even better – save an EZbass project file, and attach it to a post here!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Basil67]

This is the best I can do for now, if it will not help I will upload the project file later tonight

[Basil67]

Here’s the project file. Issue is most noticeable on the slide in at start

[Markus Wagner]

As a user I would say even the smooth slides (legato) in EZbass currently are interpreted as a slide on a fretted bass with fully depressed strings.

So it does play a sequence of halftones with a little calculation of soothing.

I have heard that it does not simply play single notes and there is a calculation behind the slides, but I also wish the algorithm would do a better job by adding a little bit of automatic pitch bending to simulate slides on a fretless bass.

In your case, to make it sound more real / less obvious, you need to reduce the time between the two notes as it does with a slide-in articulation, which is just a 16th. I would not leave more than an eighth note apart.

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years ago by Markus Wagner.

[Basil67]

Thing is, it did sound good from start. The something changed (I probably did something) and now it sounds awful.

[Markus Wagner]

Here is my audio example of an octave smooth slide (legato) at 60bpm and a note spacing of 1/2.

[Basil67]

Interesting, thanks for that. I am starting to think I just THOUGHT it sounded good from start, but that it actually sounded terrible all along.

Then this slide is kinda useless for me, works only for short slide-ins but not for actual slides. Disappointing 🙁

Thanks for the help Mazuwa

 

[Basil67]

*bump*

Is this the best EzBass can do in terms of longer slides-ins/outs?

Or am I missing something?

[Markus Wagner]

I want to add a real full downslide on my 4 string bass guitar for comparison.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

[Basil67]

That is much better than my result

• This post was modified 5 years ago by Basil67.

[Markus Wagner]

You can try a trick that makes it sound better in EZbass.

Just extend the first and last note of the slide to at least 1/8.

On your old screenshot it seems to be just at 1/16 or 1/32.

It means you should hold the note for a while before you begin to slide. Same to the end.

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

[Basil67]

That helped a bit, still not good enough but better 🙂

@Toontrack, is this the best we can do here?

[Henrik Ekblom]

Well, some of your attached slides made in EZbass was playing really slow – so it’s natural that each tone sounds distinct (in contrast to a slide that mimics a pitch bend).

If you have a faster speed, the engine will make it sound more fluid (as the attached audio file). You can also decrease the velocity of the second note in the slide (just right of bar 1.2 in the screenshot) to make each tone less prominent.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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[Basil67]

Tack Henrik, det hjälpte

Thanks Henrik, that helped.

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Thanked by: Henrik Ekblom

[Phil Pendlebury]

This was something I noticed from day one tbh. It would be great to get some actual slides sampled, (I guess it is too late now).

EZbass version: 1.0.3
Operating system: Windows 10

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