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https://www.toontrack.com/manual/ezbass

Remember to check in again after major version updates to see if there are any changes.

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Could you contact support and send the MIDI files to us? You can link this thread in your support ticket so they know who to forward to.

Regarding drum MIDI, it is intended as a rhythm capturing tool. After you have added the rhythm to the Song Track, you add/split the chords to your liking and then use the grid editor, transitions and replace MIDI functions to control pitch.

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Hey fransisigos,

We have a ticket for this specific functionality. The tempo tracks are saved with the MIDI, so please hold on to your variable tempo grooves while we make EZbass read tempo changes more vigorously.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

Hey fransisigos,

We have a ticket for this specific functionality. The tempo tracks are saved with the MIDI, so please hold on to your variable tempo grooves while we make EZbass read tempo changes more vigorously.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey Richard,

Your method is right on the money! Do you have any specific examples so we could have a look at what’s going on?

Without having seen the grooves in question, the two most common reasons for out-of-key notes is that either the “Original” song key button is active, or it’s grooves riff or have fills with accidental notes in them in a typical bass fashion (chromatic walks or what have you).

Let us know how things go and get back to us with some of the grooves that are acting up.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Thanks for the suggestion Daniel, I’ve added a feature request to add an articulation for them.

You can program them right now by adding the notes you want to have in your trill, selecting all of them and applying a legato slide. It’s a precision job, but it’ll get you there with a little patience for now.

As usual new features are happy little surprises, so no promises when it’ll be in. Right now we’re focusing on making EZbass stable for all our users.

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Hey TheRebus,

EZbass handles tracking string instruments pretty well, but keeping unwanted noise to a minimum is important for good tracking. Practice makes perfect, but getting the best out of the tracker includes three things:

1) Keeping notes separate (easily identifiable transients),
2) Only one at a time (i.e. monophonic sounds – better to add harmony later),
3) As clean signal as possible without effects or distorion (less noise means less risk of not being able to determine pitch).

You can make the best of any situation, but singling out a melody from a mix will give you notes jumping around a lot and force you to spend more time in the tracker. There have been a few videos on Youtube on audio tracking, if you feel uncertain what to aim for there’s already support available from other users’ experiences!

The Guitar Pro MIDI stuff has to do with how Guitar Pro exports MIDI. Read more here: https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/midi-import/?view=all#post-2579010

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

I could get a decent enough trill with hammer-ons and pull-offs (legato), but maybe you want more fret noise? While you can control velocity independently for each note, the intensity of a sustained note transfers between the notes. You could try having the hammer-ons at a higher velocity than the pull-offs and see if that works for you.

The scarbee bass trills sound more like a sliding sound, maybe those are (one finger) slurs? I’d use slide rather than hammer-ons and pull-offs for that. Still legato : )

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Sounds like vibrato to me (and also a chorus or detune effect)! Do you have a MIDI keyboard connected? It could be that the mod wheel is acting up.

EZbass has three ways to modulate pitch: mod wheel (vibrato), pitch wheel (monophonic bends) and polyphonic pressure/aftertouch (polyphonic bends). I don’t know how advanced Logic’s MIDI monitor is, but I’d start by having a look there and see if there are any messages sneaking their way to EZbass.

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Hey jordo901,

Tuning a MIDI instrument is for visual feedback only (same as a staff wouldn’t display notes differently); the notes are the same however the instrument is tuned. The tuning controls in EZbass sets how the sound associated with a given note plays back. It does not change the playable range of the instrument.

See the thread below on Guitar Pro. Basically, you need to transpose your Guitar Pro bass MIDI one octave up before exporting.
https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/midi-import/?view=all#post-2579010

As for the drum MIDI working has to do with both sharing mapping through general MIDI, which provides a standard for mapping common percussion instruments and articulations. EZdrummer being a dedicated drum sampler contains more articulations outside of the GM standard, but it can still play common GM drums.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey rodzimguitar68,

Any MIDI block can be matched in the grooves tab by selecting it and right clicking (or opening the Edit global menu), expanding the Find sub menu and selecting one of the options in there.

The “Show in Browser” option in that menu will open the grooves tab and take you to the folder that MIDI block sits in on your disk.

So to answer your question: there’s no shortcut, but you can right-click a MIDI block and select “Show in Browser” from the Find sub menu.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey nmoney,

The instrument in the bass tab is always tuned in fourths, and the available pitches go from A0 (a fourth below drop D on a real bass) and E4 (way up on the first string). EZbass does not produce sounds outside of that range, and all the sounds in that range sound “natural”, i.e. not pitch shifted.

Hope that answers your question!

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Hey Phill,

You’re right! The vintage bass was sampled without slap articulations.

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[Erik]

Hey Amitabha,

Here are some examples of simple one octave slides.

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

Hey Michael,

I think maybe I understand since you mention SD3 and EZdrummer: The song track tempo and audio tracker tempo are not locked to each other. It’s the tempo in Audio Tracker which doesn’t follow your DAW, right?

The audio tracker is designed to track any audio source, not just those of the same tempo as what your DAW or song track is set to. This way you can track an entirely different bass line in its own tempo and then when you add it to your song track it’ll work properly with the song track tempo, with correct note values even though it was tracked in another tempo.

After finishing tracking or when adding audio, in the “Tracker Session Setup” dialog you’re asked to set the tempo. By default it is set to 120 BPM, but we should probably have a look at making EZbass select the “Current Tempo in [DAW]” by default when tracking through Audio Sender.

After closing the setup dialog, you can change the tempo of the track manually in the transport bar to match the source tempo better. This does not affect the tempo of the song track (the audio tracker transport bar is separate from the song track transport bar).

Erik Berglund — Toontrack

[Erik]

How do you mean they’re not available? Do they show up but there’s a warning sign next to them or are they simply not there?

What happens if you go into the advanced settings and click “Restore MIDI Database…”?

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