Volume Controls in EZ Bass

[Richard Grills]

Hi.

I have been playing a few days writing some EZ Bass grooves myself to match a cover song (country style) and after 2 days fiddling, adjusting and getting it up and running in the right form I wanted, I noticed that the volume on the notes are a little wonky. I understand that, as a guitarist, volume  playing notes are controlled by the player whether with fingers or picks etc. In EZ Drummer 2 I can adjust my midi with individual drum volumes. EZ Keys plays a balanced groove for piano (etc) volume.

How is the best way to even out the various notes. Some are damped when I  just use the pen tool to write a note. Others are too loud. I don’t see an individual note controller than velocity and damping. Doing each note volume, one at a time will take hours. Any way to select more notes than at one time to adjust the groove volume to balance it a bit?

I use Cubase 10, and saved the file as a midi file from EZ Bass and imported it into the DAW. It didn’t match the EZ Bass Grid Editor at all. Can I use automation to control it? I haven’t tried that yet as I don’t want to mess it up.

Thanks

RG

EZbass version: 1.0.2
Operating system: Windows 10

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Richard Grills wrote:

Any way to select more notes than at one time to adjust the groove volume to balance it a bit?

To adjust the velocity of the notes (which is the same as the “hardness” of the notes) you can either:

• select the block you want to adjust
• open Edit Play Style
• adjust Velocity

or you can do it with more control in the Grid Editor tab

• Click the button with two up arrows besides the Velocity select menu (in the bottom left part of Grid Editor)
• Here you can change the the individual velocities for each note
• you can also smooth all velocities by selecting the notes you want to change, and decrease the Dynamics control

Does this help you out? 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[Richard Grills]

Appreciated you response.

I will look into those methods and let you know how it works for anybody else interested.

I actually tried using the Velocity as a complete groove to even out the volume, but it still was not evened out as I would like to hear it. Adjusting 1 note at a time is very time consuming.

I will look into the Dynamics control to see how it sounds and get back to you.

thanks,

Richard

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