[Gregory Fey]

Thanks so much for your help!  EZkeys 2 is great by the way!

[Gregory Fey]

I believe that resolved the main problem, thank you.  Should the PM screen look like this?

(*a newer version is installed)

Reply To: Can’t install 2.0.2 Ezkeys update. Can’t contact you via support. version: 2.0.2
Operating system: Windows 11

[Gregory Fey]

Oh but standalone EZkeys 2.0.2 seems to work just fine.

[Gregory Fey]

Over time I have found a number of the “songs” in the various product go together nicely.  The names rarely match exactly, but you can often find the match by looking for songs in the same tempo.  In other words, the songs with tempo 112 in Urban Jazz in EZD3, EZB and EZK2 go together, even though the names are slightly different.

Another mystery is that between EZK and EZB the key will often be off by a 2nd or a 5th, and you have to use your music theory to pull them together.

Once you figure it out, you have a construction kit!  Very nice.

I’m guessing this is all to be able to imitate a Doobie Brothers song without getting a copyright lawsuit.

[Gregory Fey]

I tried this new articulation and it sounds like a “buzz trill” on a fretless bass.  This is very odd.  It makes me wonder if the person programming it actually listens to bass players?  This is not something anyone needs.

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Thanked by: Reggie Edwards

[Gregory Fey]

I agree that there is too much fret buzz on some of the basses at higher velocities.  And you have to push the velocity up to get much treble out of the instrument.  However I have noticed that the Gospel bass is way better at this than the basses released earlier.

[Gregory Fey]

The screen capture shows what I am dealing with.  The bass line is 8 bars of 4/4 in Eminor.  Once I drop the midi file on to the track, and try to add chord blocks, it arbitrarily decides that the measures are 3/4 and that some of the chords are C and Bminor.  It doesn’t seem to matter at what point in the process I change the key to Eminor with No Transpose; the incorrect chords are still there.  If I type in the correct chord names, it transposes the bass line for those bars.

[Gregory Fey]

I appreciate you walking me through it.  I tried what you suggested in many ways.  However, the No Transpose selection seems to do nothing to affect that the midi line still has wrong chords names associated with the line.  If I then type in the correct chords to correct the chord mis-assignment, it transposes the line.

[Gregory Fey]

I was looking at this, and found no musical correspondence between some of the products with the same name.  I’m sure some of the styles go together, like Contemporary RnB, but not all of them.

[Gregory Fey]

I tried using the Transpose function on an imported midi file.

If I set the Key before dropping the midi file on the track, it transposes the chords by an interval that makes no sense.

For example I have a bass line in Eminor.  If I import it with the key set to C, the midi plays correctly, although some assigned chords are wrong.  The difference is C major to Eminor, a third or sixth depending on how you look at it.

If I set the key to Eminor and drop the file on the track, it transposes the file to Bminor, a fifth away, which makes zero sense.  It still assigns the wrong chords.

If I rewrite the chords, the midi is transposed to wrong notes.

[Gregory Fey]

I second the request for a buzz trill, legato trill, sting, shake, single finger trill, or whatever you call it.  Those are all the names I’ve found for it.  This is an extremely common electric bass articulation in many R&B, funk, and fusion recordings.  It’s usually a half step, and on upper strings, and has 3 to 5 notes in it.  (but there are exceptions to all those descriptions).   It can trill up, or trill down.  It’s typically fast, so fast it’s hard to hear exactly what’s going on – like 32nd note fast.  For example, it might be the notes F, E, F.  or E, F, E.  or F, E, F, E, F, and so on.

I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to get EZbass to do this, and I’ve had no luck.

Operating system: Windows 10

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