James
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JamesCoz my music production flow starting from writing notes and it’s much more easier to use nice sounding and featured bass plugin instead of learn tons of songs. Also my sound engineering skills not always allows me to make perfect bass mix with real instrument. It’s easy to put acoustic or electric guitar in mix, together with voice, piano etc, but bass sometimes wants much more attention to glue without conflicts.
Anyway you’ve moved topic far to offtop, so let’s stop it. If you don’t need it, please leave us.
Reply To: On hand positioning version: 1.0.9
Operating system: Windows 10
Okay – well, what more can I say to such sage advice and insight? I never knew it was so easy to mix a full band minus the bass…
Enjoy your music production and I hope you find happiness in these troubled times.
JamesHi Dave just be careful with EZKeys – you can try them out which is well worth doing – you may love the ability to quickly generate keyboard tracks that sound great and cover any chord/genre you want – but when you want to dig into it a bit deeper the frustrations start to appear because it’s so old.
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Thanked by: Dave 70JamesSo if you’re a professional bass player why are you so bothered that your virtual buddy isn’t taking gigs off you?
That’s not a tongue in cheek barb or snarky comment – serious question – if you can lay the bass parts down you want why so bothered that EZBass can’t?
I play the guitar much more than bass so I do know that none of my guitars has a massive change in timbre on the lower 3, 4 or 5 strings which are all wound – as I said above. Given the 8 strings do have a few bass strings on them that’s what I’m basing my comments on. But the point is I don’t have any virtual guitar programs – if Toontrack made EZGuitar I wouldn’t buy it – it couldn’t do half the things I want to play after being a student of guitar for 35 years and I certainly wouldn’t complain that EZGuitar didn’t sound as good as me and my gunslinger colleagues and buddies.
JamesSorry I didn’t mean to ask too much – I just wondered because another question in the EZBass forum was about the kinds of chords you could pick – asking for 7th chords and other Jazzy ones like diminished or 7b5 chords, but as you correctly point out you can only pick major or minor in EZBass.
You can find that thread here: https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/special-chords-how-do-i-put-them/
EZKeys is a whole different situation – the reason people are probably asking for different chords on EZBass is that EZKeys handles them so well – you can choose Sus, 6, 7, maj7, add9, dim, 7b5, 7#9 chords easily, which if that is what you need it’s the best in the business.
The problem with EZKeys is that it’s so old that the UI and other features are now really out of date – especially compared to EZBass. There has been a thread on the EZKeys forum which started five (yes 5) years ago asking for upgrades and when would EZKeys 2 come out – still no news on that from our buddies at Toontrack so don’t hold your breath.
Good luck and best wishes
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Thanked by: jazzmandan and Dave 70JamesOh my… Now I see. Need to feed him more 🙂
James, just listen C0 (16hz) lowest piano key. Oh no, human can’t hear so low sound… but how you can do this? 🙁 In fact is same kind of things – each instrument grants it own resonances.
“Aghr… Why did you make me do this? You’re fighting so you can watch everyone around you die. Think, James!”
Reply To: On hand positioning version: 1.0.9
Operating system: Windows 10
I think the Mitchells failed and the machines have taken over the world…
JamesYou can record audio directly into EZBass in the Audio Tracker tab at the top – you can drag and drop pre-recorded audio, open a file or hit the Record Audo button and play it straight in.
That should make it easier to get it into EZBass – then when it’s in there you can just have EZBass follow your DAW commands and it will play along with all your other tracks – you don’t need to paste the MIDI back into your DAW if you don’t want to.
JamesYou might have to wait a bit until there are more to choose from but I’m sure it will come eventually.
JamesThe New York Studios MIDI is that which came with SD2 – and was later repackaged as the New York Studio’s 1 SDX for folks who just got SD3 and wanted to backfill their MIDI catalogue – it’s not the same as in the Pop Rock EZX.
Pop Rock EZX was the EZDrummer 1 sounds and MIDI – not Superior Drummer.
JamesI can confirm that the 92bpm 12/8 grooves in EZdrummer blues add-on do not sync with EZbass 12/8 grooves.
I’m trying to build a slow B.B King style 12/8 ballad and it’s very frustrating. Can anyone suggest a workaround or is it best to edit the midi drum file in my DAW (logic).
Will this be addressed in an update?
Reply To: 12/8 Blues EZBass does not line up with 12/8 Blues for Superior Drummer 3 version: 1.0.9
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)
Hey, Malinari if you drop the drum MIDI into EZBass it lines up fine – just the actual MIDI from EZ bass that seems to be set to its own clock
And like BlueGenes said earlier if you have Superior Drummer it’s easy to fix – just open up the MIDI Editor and grab all the drum notes and move them one space to the left – after that, they will work just fine.
JamesCan you find that kind of specific MIDI on the web and just import it? Might be easier for specifics like Geddy Lee’s chops and the Iron’s. I’m sure we’ll see a Thrash genre MIDI sooner or later just like we did with the drum MIDI.
JamesThanks Olof, that worked!
Hi Dave one you’ve had a chance to dig into it I’d love to know how many chord tones the MIDI hits in the grooves – a comment / question on the forum earlier asked about other chord types apart from major and minor like Dom 7th, m7b5 etc. and I wondered if your progressions in the Jazz MIDI made use of 3rd, 5th and 7ths more than the Blues and Rock MIDI.
Have fun with it.
JamesSorry, you don’t like discussions in – hang on, is it really – OMG yes! It’s a discussion forum.
How to spot a troll – started no topics and only comments in single figures on the same kinds of threads…
JamesIt’s not the same. Sounds on higher frets more mellow than same notes on lesser frets but thinner strings. Multi-scale instruments might shadow this effect but it present anyway on real guitar. And not guitar only.
Reply To: On hand positioning version: 1.0.9
Operating system: Windows 10
Sorry mate not on any of mine – unless you count going from the D (wound) string up to the G (unwound) which of course makes a massive difference in timbre – but not going lower on wound strings
JamesNo problem! That being said, should you find and clear any security issues, re-run the validation and check any output if something goes wrong.
jord
Unfortunately running SD3 standalone didn’t have any issues with any SDX or EZX; but right after trying that I got an email from Toontrack support – big shout out to those guys for giving up on this one – and the simplest thing seems to have solved the problem: Perhaps more of a band-aid than a cure but still – I just need to switch my audio interface (Audient ID4) on before I launch Logic and then SD3 validates fine.
I’ve never had this in any other version of OSX so not sure what Big Sur did under the hood that makes Logic freak out like this but at least I’m back in the game again.
Thanks, both John and Jord for your responses and help – nice to know we’re not alone when problems strike.
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