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Ian_SAfc wrote:

But would be much nicer and easier to drag on top of the exisiting groove and then a pop-up comes up and says “overwrite or create new groove?”

Thanks for the idea. I’ll take a note of it as a feature request 🙂

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J-New wrote:

Ditto….I have EzBass downloaded and working and have the EzBass Audio Sender in my AU but it is not sending. I followed the instructions to get it to send but “Audio 1” is not in EzBass “Audio Tracker” tab. I didn’t see a tutorial for how to set this up in the “Help” section of EzBass. It seems like I should be able to play a Drum in Logic and have it recorded in EzBass so I can set a bass line, but it is not working, help?

Reply To: Unable to Drag and Drop Midi Events Directly from Studio One into ezBass version: 1.0.4
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

Is the Audio Sender saying that is has connected to EZbass?

Is the Track Tab saying that the Sender is connected?

Side note – EZbass needs to be inserted as a plugin in the same project as the Audio Sender, i.e. you can’t send things to the Standalone version of EZbass.

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Are you using a tempo map in your DAW?

In that case, you should transfer the tempo map to EZbass before export, or export the audio from EZbass using the bounce/export feature in your DAW.

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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? 🙂

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pec1990 wrote:

After update installation I can’t open EZ BASS on Logic Pro.When i try to rescan the program, logic pro crashes. Help me please!!

Are you using the latest Logic version (10.5.1)? If not, try to update.

Does the standalone version of EZbass work?

If that doesn’t work – try to reinstall EZbass. It should pass the validation and work on the latest version of Logic Pro X.

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JacknBox wrote:

I have tried everything in this thread and EZBASS still does not show up in Logic Pro. I can use it outside of Logic Pro but its not integrated as a plug-in. It shows ‘successfully validated” but nothing works inside Logic Pro.

Please assist.

Jack

Reply To: After installation EZBASS not appears in my DAW (Logic Pro) version: 1.0.4
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

So there’s no EZbass menu item in Instruments > AU Instruments > Toontrack on the Software Instrument track in Logic?

Have you tried to reboot the computer? It fixes this issue sometimes.

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shiler1971 wrote:

But dragging it back to DAW isn’t functioning right.

We need some more info here to try to help you out:

• You drag the MIDI from EZbass Song Track or EZbass Grooves tab to your DAW – then what happens? Nothing shows up in your DAW?
• What DAW are you using?

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If you want to do actions that isn’t built into EZbass, such as overwriting files, or select many files and moving to new folders, etc. – that is easiest done in your operative system (Windows in your case).

• Right click the User MIDI folder, and select the Open in Explorer menu item.
• Now you’ll see all the User MIDI files directly in Exlplorer
• Here you can rearrange all the files like  you want to
  • remove files, drag files here, overwrite files, rename, etc.
• when you’re done – right click the User MIDI folder in EZbass and select Sync File Changes
  • this will make sure EZbass reads all the changes you have done to the files

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Remember to set the Song Key correctly. C notes will be seen as C major chords if the song key is C major. If you set the song key to C minor, the chords will be interpreted based on that song key 🙂

If you want to change Song Key, but not transpose any MIDI – select the No Transpose sub menu in the Song Key selector (below the song track).

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[Henrik Ekblom]

No problem!

Another thing to notice – if your chords get a * next to it, it means that EZbass thinks it needs to be corrected.

• For example, have a C chord set, and move all the notes (in the Grid Editor) to G.
• The chord will say C*, and when you double click it, the Correct… button will be lit up, and suggest the chord to be corrected to G.

We will release movies about how all this works, so stay tuned 🙂

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When you extend a chord (by dragging its edge) all notes beneath will adjust to fit that chord, and that’s what’s happening in the video.

You need to either:

• Draw a chord with the pen tool. Draw it in one drag so it covers the entire area it should cover.
  • If you just draw one bar, and then extend it – the notes will change (as in the video)
• If you have chords that you just want to “correct” (change notation without changing any MIDI notes):
  • Double click the chord(s)
  • In the Chord Editor, press the Correct… button
  • Enter the chord that you want to change the notation to

In your video example – removing all chords and drawing one large chord over the 8 bars should analyse it to a C

• If EZbass thinks it’s another chord – double click it an Correct is – as I explained above 🙂

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Michael wrote:

I basically want my real bass to act as a MIDI controller for EZBass, respecting the different regions (intro, verse, chorus, etc). Can I do this easily with EZBass?

You can record different audio regions for different parts of your song, and then use Toontrack Audio Sender to get the audio to EZbass Audio Tracker.

• Logic doesn’t support drag and drop out of Logic, that’s why the Audio Sender plug-in (which is included when you buy EZbass) is used.

If you have variations in your tempo when you record, you can both import a Tempo Map into EZbass, or you can record each part separately – if each part has a static tempo, but they differ between them.

Does this clear things up for you? 🙂

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Didier Martini wrote:

if i’m doing this, it convert all the articulations (Ghost, Palm etc) to Slap/pop, it doesn’t convert alternate -> Slap, Ghost to Ghost Slap, and percussive right hand to percussive left hand. everything must be redone by hand.

You have to change this manually, but you can use the Select menu to select all notes of a certain articulation.

• For example, go to Select menu and chose Alternate.
  • now all Alternates will be selected
• In Articulations menu – select slap/pop
  • now all Alternates has been changed to slap/pop
• Go to Select menu and chose Ghost Notes
• In articulations menu – select Ghost Slap
  • now all Ghost Notes will be changed to Ghost Slaps
• Do this for each kind of note you want to transform…

Didier Martini wrote:

yes renaming work ok of course but i’m talking about the Tags. for example,  here it says resolution 1/4 , but it’s not, wer’e more closer to 16th note ;-).

The tags doesn’t change what the MIDI file will play – the tags are merely there to enable users to filter grooves on certain criteria.

Didier Martini wrote:

the note i programmed were only using Slap , ghost slap etc, but it’s written as Bassline, and Hard. so when i import it again in the timeline, it’s not playing with the slap sound but with the alternate/finger one.

So, when you drag it to User MIDI it has Slap articulations, but when you drag it back to the Song Track it plays Alternates?

Didier Martini wrote:

yes of course it’s working ! the issue, is that… the audio loop i’m converting is a slap groove. in the audio tracker unfortunatly we only can listen to alternate playing, no Slap…

Yeah, currently the Tracker can’t add Slap/Pop. You should track the audio as Alternates, and when done – drag the result to the Song Track and change the articulations in the Grid Editor.

 

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Didier Martini wrote:

if i’m doing this, it convert all the articulations (Ghost, Palm etc) to Slap/pop, it doesn’t convert alternate -> Slap, Ghost to Ghost Slap, and percussive right hand to percussive left hand. everything must be redone by hand.

You have to change this manually, but you can use the Select menu to select all notes of a certain articulation.

• For example, go to Select menu and chose Alternate.
  • now all Alternates will be selected
• In Articulations menu – select slap/pop
  • now all Alternates has been changed to slap/pop
• Go to Select menu and chose Ghost Notes
• In articulations menu – select Ghost Slap
  • now all Ghost Notes will be changed to Ghost Slaps
• Do this for each kind of note you want to transform…

Didier Martini wrote:

yes renaming work ok of course but i’m talking about the Tags. for example,  here it says resolution 1/4 , but it’s not, wer’e more closer to 16th note ;-).

The tags doesn’t change what the MIDI file will play – the tags are merely there to enable users to filter grooves on certain criteria.

Didier Martini wrote:

the note i programmed were only using Slap , ghost slap etc, but it’s written as Bassline, and Hard. so when i import it again in the timeline, it’s not playing with the slap sound but with the alternate/finger one.

So, when you drag it to User MIDI it has Slap articulations, but when you drag it back to the Song Track it plays Alternates?

Didier Martini wrote:

yes of course it’s working ! the issue, is that… the audio loop i’m converting is a slap groove. in the audio tracker unfortunatly we only can listen to alternate playing, no Slap…

Yeah, currently the Tracker can’t add Slap/Pop. You should track the audio as Alternates, and when done – drag the result to the Song Track and change the articulations in the Grid Editor.

 

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Didier Martini wrote:

It made an automatic Chords analyse, but Ezbass is wrong on them ! it’s only a C during the 8 bars (he found other stuff). so i wanted to put a C on the 8 bars, but of course, it change the notes… is there a way to do that ?

Just remove the chords and use the Pen Tool to draw new chords. You can also double click chord(s) that you want to correct. In the chord editor – click Correct… and enter the chord that it should be. This won’t move the notes like a regular chord change.

Didier Martini wrote:

I didn’t found a way to convert a whole groove from finger alternate to all Slap in one go, instead i must change  it one note per note, is there a quicker why to do it ?

In the Grid Editor: you select all notes, then go to the Articulations menu and select the articulation you want (slap/pop for example).

Didier Martini wrote:

so now i want to save it as a user midi, but how can i change the name of the groove, the tag (to Slap.. he see it as bassline + Hard).

After you dragged it to the User MIDI folder – right click the file and select Rename.

Didier Martini wrote:

Once saved as user midi, unfortunatly , it’s not saved as “Slap”, but use other technic (by default). use “no name”, so can’t give a name, a style (jazz) etc.. how to save it so it will use the Slap sound i programmed and not the default finger one ?

Hm. Can you try the following:

• On the Song Track – click Add Groove to get a simple 8 bar groove.
• Go to the Grid Editor
• Select all notes
• In the articulations menu – select slap/pop
  • now the groove should play slap/pop if you preview it
• Drag the 8 bar groove to User MIDI
• Preview it in User MIDI – it should play slap/pop

Does that work?

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You can change the volume of the pickups, but you can’t change the actual pickups.

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