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JamesIf it smells that bad on your end I suggest you check your own pants / sewers for blockage.
If you don’t have anything to add other than childish insults perhaps you could save some bandwidth…?
JamesI’d love to be a fly on the wall of the studio where the producer is telling the session bassist that he should play that bass riff on a lower string. 🤬🫣🤕
JamesIf you are used to music with only major/minor chords and power chords I understand you don’t get why other people need this feature…I play jazz and fusion and the underlying harmonies are usually very complex. At present I have to programm the bass line by hand as there is no way to make EZ bass play something decent on those harmanies. But, if I have to do it by hand why should I use Ez Bass? I can stuck with Trillian, which sound-wise I like it better.
Hi Davide if you don’t know progressive metal like Dream Theater or guitarist John Pettruci then you may be forgiven for assuming those of us who don’t clamour for this feature in a bass guitar program only chug power chords in drop D or C tuning but you would be wrong.
Complex time signatures and changing key signatures, borrowing chords from other keys and liberal use of Phrygian, Locrian, the Melodic and Harmonic Minor modes are commonplace in this music as well as jazz and fusion and I really don’t need a Super Locrian scale for my bass lines.
JamesI’m not sure how many of the bass lines mimic a John Pettruci solo that might cause this problem but even if there are some chromatic runs starting on the root and ending on a perfect 4th and you really need that Lydian sound in the bass; can’t you adjust it yourself?
JamesThanks John,
My piano knowledge needs to be upgraded so I can slice and dice some fills in there.
so on question #2 are the variations different per expansion pack? I have the EZKeys Essentials pack and I was
assuming the preset (i have Britpop selected) would yield different variations. I might be missing something because I could have
sworn all the variations sounded the same when i changed the preset to something other than Britpop
ps i was told to ask for new things like hammond B3 in the forum 😉
James
Reply To: Color Coding and Variations version: 1.3.2
Operating system: Windows 7
Hi JC – don’t worry about a lack of piano knowledge just get busy with your knife and slice and dice away – you can’t break it and might make some really cool things the theory nerds (like me) can’t think of because it’s outside of the box.
Also you can always ask about things in the forum but the mods can’t reveal things (like when are we going to get EZKeys 2 with all the EZBass and EZDrummer2 bells and whistles attached) because a) they often are not told about this any sooner than we are; and b) they wouldn’t be allowed to tell us until they got the go ahead from TT Head Office anyway.
Good luck.
JamesWouldn’t the sampling of any bass depend on much more than the model number – fingers, strings, pickups, amp, cab, speakers, mic, mic-pre, board/interface etc.
JamesThe easiest way would be to just create the MIDI in SD3 Grid Editor (Piano Roll).
I would start by searching my library using the Tap To Find input – tap in the kind of Hi Hat Riff you want and see if you have anything to get you started, then edit the MIDI in the Grid Editor to give you what you want.
Good luck!
JamesHave some patience guys – a 6 pack where you don’t have a lot of choice and just have to load it up with the 6 packs there are that you don’t already own doesn’t make a lot of sense; unless your loaded and just have every EZX, SDX and EBX, and terabytes of MIDI files and petabytes of space left on your RAID SSD’s
JamesYes of course – I have used EZKeys, EZDrummer for years, SD3 for the last 3 and EZBass since it came out. Couldn’t imagine my workflow without them.
James+1. Now that we have Jazz MIDI pack 🙂
And the Fusion, Latin Jazz, Funk, R&B
I wonder though have you actually checked out the MIDI in these packs? In the original EZBass MIDI there are a few Jazz grooves and the first one I looked at had a 6 to #5 movement and another with a 5 to b5 movement. The type of Jazz MIDI you have will probably have more of these in as well.
Bass isn’t like Guitar and Keys which have to really highlight the extensions – I’d clop my bass player round the head if he sat on b5 in every Blues jam we did.
Having said all that I don’t have any of the new MIDI packs or EBX expansions yet – I prefer to play what I want and import it in so I may be completely wrong. Ces’t la vie!
JamesGot it – I don’t have issues with that either stand-alone or in Logic sorry I can’t help.
JamesBut isn’t EZKeys the perfect combination of the red-headed stepchild and Cinderella?
Sorry TT couldn’t resist that after the 5-year anniversary thread in the Keys forum.
I’m not sure. Not seeing a MIDI pack for EZkeys….
Seriously though shashawraw just check out the product page https://www.toontrack.com/products/ – and scroll to the bottom. I think Keys has the most bundle packs of any current product because it’s the oldest.
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