Mac McCormick
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Mac McCormickDaniel,
This is my take if I understand which high harmonic frequencies you are talking about:
The mp3 you posted sounds natural to me for a bass with round wound strings and that is EQ’d to reduce the low end and emphasize more highs. Does the bass you are comparing it to have flat wound strings? That would make this P Bass sound much different from your Pbass instrument.
If you listen to the audio examples of this EBX on the Toontrack website there are a few examples in the Sounds (DI) category that sound like your example but have a lot more low end EQ’d in. This low end being more dominant takes some of the focus away from those high harmonics and sounds more balanced to me. But either way, those harmonics can be somewhat EQ’d out if you wish.
I actually love the sound of those harmonics when there is a bit more low end allowed to come through. Being an old prog rock guy in the 70’s those harmonics sound like the bass sounds I loved back in those days. Listen to Chris Squire (YES) or Greg Lake (ELP) and you will hear those harmonics in spades. (They both used Rickenbacker Basses which bring out those harmonics even more) But their bass also had more low end which “rounded out” (pun intended) the sound of their bass sound.
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Mac McCormickIf I understand your problem correctly I would ask if you are sending MIDI to a device for your metronome. It could be that you are sending a specific note for the downbeat and different notes for the following beats and that something else is on the same MIDI channel.
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Mac McCormickI will usually just put the groove into my DAW and remap it by hand. There are usually only a few instruments used in the orchestral Grooves and I find it easier to just do it by hand. There are other ways depending on what DAW you use. (Mapping each MIDI note do a different note, etc.)
If you use Cubase I have a bunch of Cubase drum maps at the link below. Using a Drum Map makes it easier to move the note events to the desired drum sounds.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bdqavx9qpftwfbd/AACX6es78dGXr4SJFk2VkoLka?dl=0
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Mac McCormickI could see if they didn’t allow people who had not purchased the product to write in their forum. But to prevent them from reading it? I don’t get it.
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Thanked by: Greybelly and drumjack52Mac McCormickI also agree that it’s totally stupid. Already being an SD3 owner, I wanted to read what people were saying about EZBass before I purchased it. But no way.
I don’t know why they want to stop non-owners from reading what people are saying about their products.
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Thanked by: GreybellyMac McCormickMy thoughts on this are that the programming teams probably work on many new features for both EZDrummer and Superior Drummer simultaneously. Probably as planned, or not, the EZD features were done first and I would guess that there are many more features being worked on for SD than there were for EZD, therefore, taking longer to finish SD than it did EZD. I expect to be blown away by SD4 with all the new features of EZD3 and many new cool features that are not in EZD3.
ToonTrack did not disappoint with EZD3 and I really doubt that they will disappoint with SD4.
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Mac McCormickI’ve been working with MIDI since the mid 1980’s. (thanks Dave Smith, et al) I worked with music software and hardware companies for almost 20 years, and Jord (Bear Faced Cow) is correct. He’s given you all the options of “automating” velocity. (a term I had never heard before)
How do YOU automate volume or any other CC? You use a curve tool, or pencil tool, or whatever tool, to draw in what you want. You can do this same thing to velocity in a DAW. It’s easy peasy. Or do you mean randomize velocity? Yeah, you can do that too. So I don’t get what the deal is here.
Velocity is not continuous like a CC. You can’t change the volume/accent, etc. of a MIDI event over time with velocity. But you can still “automate” it like a CC by drawing in the velocity lane of your DAW like you would for any CC.
If none of this is making sense to you it’s because we don’t understand your question. There are a lot of smart people here and looks like either we don’t get what you are asking, or you don’t get what we’re saying
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Mac McCormickSwitching Kits requires loading all the samples for the new kit. As this can sometimes be several GigaBytes, it can take awhile.
Two ways to speed up the switching of kits:
Use SSD’s instead of spinning drives to store you samples. SSD’s are waaay faster than standard spinning drives.
Use Cache Mode. Using this loads no samples to start with and then only loads the samples as you play them. Sometimes the sample loading is not instantaneous, but once it’s loaded, it stays loaded.
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickTime sigs are not included in a tempo map and as far as I know there’s no way to import time sigs via midi in any DAW, app, or plugin.
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickAn .au file is an Audacity document file. It has nothing to do with SD3. Audacity is an audio editor. He may have rendered an SD3 MIDI track to audio and then edited it in Audacity and saved the Audacity document. But just giving you the .au document file is meaningless unless you want to edit an audio file with that program using the same settings he did.
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickSame here. I was flabbergasted that there was no forced string option. Some of the EBX’s do sound really good and I would love to have them but I have not purchased any because of this. And even saying that, I was still REALLY excited about the Rickenbacker EBX. Then, they go and decide not to implement “Rick ‘O Sound” which made me bypass that one as well.
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickWoah! That IS rather interesting. I’m trying to think of how that got through without being noticed…
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickI had this happen a long time ago but had not tried it again until tonight. I can now say that this problem does not happen using Cubase Pro 11 on Windows 10, with SD3 version 3.2.4
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
Mac McCormickI’ve attached it to this response. (see below)
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Mac McCormickI am a Windows guy and have had no problems with Cubase Pro or SD3 at all. All of my drives are SSD which can make a huge difference in perceptible overall computer speed. I can’t recommend them highly enough. They are almost essential for doing audio.
I am only using a Core i5 8400 but I do have 32GB of RAM. I very rarely run into CPU problems and sometimes I’m even running two instances of SD3 (Rock and Orchestral) and lots of plugins.
There’s a lot of discussion on which is better for audio, Intel or AMD and I’ve seen articles claiming that each one is better than the other. I guess I’m just an Intel guy because I’ve never had a problems with them at all.
Best of luck!
Cubase Pro, Korg Kronos, M-50, Hammond XK-1c, Toontrack SD3, EZBass w/lots of expansions, many VSL Vi's, Shreddage 3 everything, and shit-tons of FX plugins.
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