andycamb
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andycambQuite agree It’s a great program but that is an oversight which gives Trillian and other bass libraries an advantage in that area.
I used Scarbee Pre bass for a long time before getting Ezbass. If I really want that 12th fret E tone for a particular song I would use that after composing the song in Ezbass. You can pick a playing position using Scarbee.
You should be able to do this in Ezbass though. It is a bit fiddly to do if you are particular about bass tone.
Think of the bassline in All Right Now by Free just before the guitar solo kicks in. A classic example of bass strings being played high up on the neck and the tone that results from it…
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Thanked by: rictusandycambHi Just bought Ezkeys upright piano. I am watching tutorials and trying to get the hang of it. I have Ezbass and it works slightly differently, though there are some similarities and obviously no grid editor.
I am a bit confused about the humanise function in Ezkeys. Where is it and how do I use it?
For example. I have a piano track, which I played and saved as midi. How do I apply Ezkeys humanise on that, to see what it does to it?
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Andy
andycambIf speed is the is the issue, you could try playing it at half speed then speeding it up again after Ezbass has translated it.
Maybe this will help too.
andycambI thought there might be a sort of general average number. Judging by those two packs maybe that’s going to be the average amount.
I don’t have Ezkeys or Ezdrummer, so I don’t know if that’s standard across midi packs or if it varies according to instrument.
andycambHi Scott
Just a follow up to get some clarification. The new 70’s pop pack has that got around 400 midi files too?
Is this the general amount that come in midi packs or do they vary a lot between packs?
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Andy
andycambYes they can be very slow to reply. I had the same thing, when I was trying to find out how many midi grooves are in the Ezbass midi packs. You would think that information would be automatically included in the promotional material but it isn’t? I couldn’t find the information anywhere.
I eventually got a response, after replying to my own post. In the classic rock pack there are apparently around 400 but I don’t know if that is the general amount that’s in every pack or if they vary greatly from pack to pack? They have just released a 70’s pack and still that information isn’t provided for some reason?
The other odd thing, is that you can’t access any other forums, unless you actually own the product? I only have Ezbass, so cannot access Ezdrummer or Superior drummer for example. As the software has some similarities, there must be some issues that are common to them all.
So if you have an issue say, with Ezbass and your audio system. That issue might have been solved in the Ezdrummer forum but you can’t access it, as you aren’t allowed to?
The search function in the forum is poor as well, finding the manuals or posts specific to Ezbass, returns results from Ezdrummer and SD that you can’t access anyway.
They really need to sort it out..
andycambCheck that you haven’t got another section already playing in the grooves tab when you try to change selection, if you are using the replace midi function. You have to cancel or accept before you can switch to another as far as I know.
A couple of times I have been trying to select notes and wondering why they were deleting or adding and it turned out I was looking at the wrong toolbar in the wrong section in the grid editor window. I had the select tool in the track edit section active and the pencil tool active in the grid section toolbar and I was mistaking one for the other.
Same thing happened when I couldn’t replace midi, there was a groove already playing in the library and I hadn’t either cancelled or accepted it.
I tend to loop the track in my daw (Reaper and) work on a section at a time, so I can hear the other tracks at the same time, if I’m drawing in notes or auditioning grooves in the library. EZbass follows along. If you use Ezbass looper function you only hear Ezbass soloed. If you move the size of the loop in your daw to narrow in on a section, sometimes this confuses Ezbass and it gets lost. You just stop playback in your daw and start it again and it’s back in sync.
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Thanked by: Mac McCormickandycambThank you Scott. You really should put this information on the promotional material. It’s one of the first questions people will ask.
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Thanked by: Pim SchilperoortandycambThis is the oddest forum. I put this question up a day or so ago and questions that came after mine have 10 or more answers?
Has nobody bought the Ezbass midi pack then?
Very strange that this question hasn’t been asked before but if it has, I can’t find it.
andycambI have Reaper and it has trouble dragging directly from the daw into Ezbass but if you can drag from your daw to another folder, for example the desktop. Then you can drag into Ezbass from there with no issue, at least you can in Reaper. Two drags instead of one but still faster than recording it real time into Ezbass.
Interestingly. I opened synth plugin that had midi patterns it, that you could drag onto a Reaper track, so as an experiment I dragged it straight to Ezbass and it worked fine?
Ctl+ left click and drag is how you do it in Reaper.
andycambI don’t know if this will help but I found in Reaper you can drag midi from Ezbass to the desktop, then from there into Ezbass. This is still quicker than recording it real time into Ezbass from the DAW track.
So if your Logic Proc can drag midi from a track onto your operating system, where Ezbass can now see it, then that might be a workaround.In Reaper you hold ctrl+alt and you can drag midi from any track onto your desktop or some other folder. Ezbass can then see it, like any other midi on your system.
andycambYes they really need to sort the search on this forum. Finding the Ezbass manual was awkward. Got sent to the Ezdrummer three manual when I tried it.
You can download the manual by using the Print Version link. I think there’s a download PDF option there somewhere.
https://www.toontrack.com/manual/ezbass
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Thanked by: M003gandycambThanks for replying. I got replies to the other posts I put up as well so it looks like I’m visible again.
I tend to make my own basslines too but I find the professionally played ones helpful to study, see how they did that, especially with funk style playing..
andycambThanks Scott.
It is odd, as Ezbass does recognise that it is a midi file but just thinks it’s empty?
As I said. I found out, that using ctrl+alt on Windows, you can drag the midi from the Reaper track to the desktop and then from there into Ezbass and there is no issue. That’s still faster than recording it in real time into Ezbass. Two drags instead of one.
Reaper being as customisable as it is, perhaps there is some setting I can change that will make it work. I will trawl the Reaper forums and if I find a method, I will post it here..
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