I am working on a song that starts out Em – D – G – C, each for half a measure. I wrote the chords and my initial bassline in Hookpad and exported them individually as MIDI, hoping EZbass could help me make it a little more interesting. Importing it into EZbass has been a nightmare though.
When I dragged in the file with the full chords, it missed almost every second chord (so it did Em – G, each for a full measure). EZkeys did better, so I then imported the chords and song parts from EZkeys into EZbass, which of course lost some critical information about diminished chords, but at least finally got most of the other chords correct.
And here is where things went really weird. I tried dragging my existing Hookpad bassline in (after transposing it up an octave of course), and EZbass immediately mangled all my chords back to one chord per measure (with one exception in measure 8 for some inextricable reason). So then I started over and dragged my bassline into an unused part of the timeline, and it imported correctly. But then dragged the correct chords over them, and this time the chords remained correct — but it mangled my bassline! It is a pretty simple bassline over these four chords, just root notes, but among the many bizarre and unmusical changes EZbass made, it switched all the Ds over the D chord to Bs, a note that is not even in that chord! I have D notes on the timeline, I drag a D chord over the D notes, and it swaps them out for Bs! What gives?
I’ve tried doing this dozens of times in dozens of different ways trying to make sense of it. I have “Use ‘Auto-Adjust Transitions’ by default” turned off. I’ve tried it in various keys (it is in either G major or E minor, take your pick, but the key is always detected as C major for, again, some inextricable reason). I’m wondering if 2/4 time might trick it into behaving better, but at this point I’m kind of just tired of fighting with it.
Edit: Switching to 2/4 does nothing to improve things. I just don’t get it: I have a series of chords from EZkeys. I have a bassline perfectly matching the roots of those chords. EZbass doesn’t need to do anything — just import them as is. And yet it pukes all over the place.
EZbass version: 1.3.2Operating system: Windows 11
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This post was modified 1 week, 3 days ago by neurozero.
