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[James]

Check out the stream by Luke Oswald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7RsXdL6U9E where he mentions any of the controllers will work as long as they shoot midi to your PC running SD3.

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Thanked by: metrosuperstar

[James]

Aahhhh thanks Luke – now I get it.

I guess I look at this from the other side and value software like this giving me ideas where I can play at different points on the neck: Much like the days when there was no YouTube and no digital recordings and we just had to transcribe our favourite records by ear I would often audition notes and licks on different strings to see what was most comfortable for me – maybe not the way the artist recorded it – but that’s how you find your own voice on an instrument I find.

Of course back in those days there were no 5 string basses so I’d never go down that far – or that high up the neck I guess – to figure out a lick.

Thanks for persevering with my guitar addled brain.

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Thanked by: LDG

[James]

You’re welcome Steve, have fun with it.

[James]

Luke if you’re suggesting that I’m trying to tell Steve that his desire for a 4 string bass is wrong I’m afraid you’ve misread my posts. I’ve stated both time my apologies if I am being naive or an idiot and missing a really simple point about this but I’m trying to understand why for a MIDI controlled instrument you would want to limit it.

Of course playing a 4 string bass will be different to playing a 5 string instrument, but programming MIDI or auditioning grooves from the library? I don’t get it it at all. I’m sorry.

[James]

g.a.b.s. wrote:

Lucky you James! I am getting 16GB of RAM with my new PC  –  hopefully it will be enough…

Have any of you guys tried the Orchestral Percussions for SD3? Looks Very tempting

It should be – yes very lucky but also the value of a 64bit machine now. I would love the Orchestral Percussions SDX but can’t justify the cost of that when I only have the Core library and a few EZX kits I ported over when I upgraded.

I can’t wait to hear the new Legacy of Rock SDX when it comes out next week – from the images we’ve been shown so far there is at least some timpani drums and a large gong like cymbal in the images shown so that may have some of the best orchestral sounds and killer drums which might be the perfect mix for my meagre setup thus far.

[James]

metrosuperstar wrote:

In my case, the issue seems to be early in the session, not later. I’m on a 2013 laptop but its been upgraded and there’s an i7 Intel CPU in there.

As g.a.b.s. said RAM is more important than CPU power for SD3 – I have a 3.5GHz Quad Core i5 but the 40GB of memory means SD3 and Logic with SD3, EZBass and EZKeys running has no issues.

[James]

SteveDouglas wrote:

It would be fine in some keys and styles yes, but I do not just write Bass parts in upward motion from the tonic , say you were in A , in that case I may go to the b7 on a G below, or an open E For the 5Th on the string below, or the 6th F# below etc, mixed in with notes above the tonic,

So why can’t you do that on a 5 string bass? Forgive me if I am really missing something here but nothing about having that low B stops you playing it like a 4 string. You can just play it like a 5 as well.

[James]

Salim Thachambath wrote:

I knew it. But the funniest part is that When we play D# minor triad, Ezkeys shows it as Eb minor. But they didn’t care about adding Eb minor key to the list of keys; looks very strange. That too for this price.

Thanks for your response

• This post was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Salim Thachambath.

If you know that D# is the same as Eb and when you play a D# triad EZKeys tells you it’s also Eb what on earth are you worried about?

[James]

You can also add any extension like #5, b5, #9, b9 or #11 in the details tab of the chord wheel – just press and hold down the note (5, 9 or 11) and you can select which extension to add to your chord.

[James]

Weird – never had that issue before. Forgive the naive question but have you tried to completely uninstall EZKeys first?

[James]

This product and the registration sucks. Hello responsible staff, I have been trying to install this product for hours, it is pointless and too difficult to deal with this software.

You cannot be reached by phone either, I will complain about your product in such a way that it is not interested.

Too bad for my investment for this junk software.

My apologies if Google Translate butchers the original post, but I don’t get that impression. I don’t know what your issue is but I’ve purchased and installed / registered all four Toontrack instruments with no issues whatsoever.

• This post was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by James.

[James]

I don’t have a problem with anything like this on a Mac – either using the inbuilt speakers or my studio monitors so most likely a Window’s / driver issue sorry.

[James]

SteveDouglas wrote:

Thank you, yes I knew I could do that, but it would not end up being a natural way to play a progression, you really should figure out a way to choose 5 string or 4 string in the bass selection, as there are far more 4 string than 5 string players out there Hopefully that is something you can consider in future versions, or adding a note range selection where I could limit the dynamic range of the pitch from E on up… Thank you for your quick reply!

Forgive me if I am missing the point here Steve, but it sounds like you’re asking that all the MIDI can be limited to a low E – apart from not being sure why you would want to do this; if you did move the low B to Eb notes up an octave so they could be played on a 4 string bass why would that not be a natural progression for a 4 string bass to play? If you’re playing a riff in keys like E or B starting on a low chord tone would be perfectly sensible place to start, and then search higher for the next notes.

The worst that could happen would be that some of those low notes might double up their octaves higher or have a smaller interval than was originally drawn in the MIDI but that could sound even better.

I’d be interested to know why you would want to do this.

[James]

Once you find it the team will sort you out no problem – I did the same a while back and within 2 hours had the right pack replaced the double in the PM.

[James]

No problem – I’m just getting to grips with SD3 as a new user but this was one of the ones that really stood out to me – easy when you know how but not before then.

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