With a bass, you have the notes at your fingertips in a much more tactile way than you do when programming, unless you have spent the time getting familiar with all the different MIDI program changes, keystrokes, controller changes.

(On a side note, I think this is more a left/right brain thing. This takes time, and interrupts the creative flow. For instance, when programming a bass part in Trillian, I would need to change sounds and hunt out the slap sound for the sound that I wanted. However, when you're programming you write without instrumental embellishment. I used to program bass parts, and they were pretty functional. Let us know what you think of the latest 1.Honestly, buy the bass.

I think you'll be really pleased with the adjustments we've made and that it will fit very easily for you now in your productions. We also added a bunch of brand new produced electric and acoustic bass patches in this update too that sound instantly great and 'radio-ready'. The original concept was more of a 'start with the basic flat sound and build up from there' idea, but I think more people might be comfortable with a more 'produced' initial sound (and then you can dial-it back or shut off the FX completely if you don't like them or want a warmer/more natural tone). So as a result of this and other 'fitting in the track' kinds of comments, I went back and remastered the entire library - all the Electric/Acoustic patches and multis for the entire instrument and we approached it more in the context of music and with the notion of 'production-ready' sounds when you first load them up. Sounds way better to have no Timbre Shifting at all and just to use some EQ/Comp techniques to give it more presence in the track. What I realized when I went back and checked the factory patches/multis again was the I had set the Timbre Shift control a little too high as a kind of effect to make the sound brighter in the initial release on that sound, but I realized that it took away some of the natural punch of the instrument. Check out how great it sounds in the George Duke 'Behind the Scenes' video for example:

Here's an important update on this topic:īased on your comment, I went back and checked out the Trilian Studio Slap to see what you could be talking about, since it's a great sounding Bass for slap and funk stuff. The electric basses and stuff (slap especially) just don't pop may just be that I suck at mixing though.Thanks for your feedback.we're always listening. I have trillian and I find it a PITA to mix properly.

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