Miguel M wrote: > I think that's about as realistic to a real sounding bass as you can> get. It was workable enough for them. > A midi controlled bass instrument will not give you the same sound as a> real guitar. (Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, Mutes, etc) Of course this> wouldn't be done for professional audio, but it could be used to have a> nice practice session. Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love playing with real bassists! :-) The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me, but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing. > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:17 -1000, david wrote:>> Rob wrote:>>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:40, Matthias Schönborn wrote:>>>> Am Dienstag 04 Dezember 2007 21:15:43 schrieb Miguel M:>>>>> Hmm, if you want a realistic sounding bass I would suggest>>>>> plugging in your guitar to jack-rack (or some similar effects>>>>> program) and use a pitch shifter to shift the pitch down by 50%.>>>> I did that - kids, don't try this at home!>>>> (Sounds like everything except a bass ;-) )>>> It can be a pretty cool effect though (same for double speed bass as a >>> lead or rhythm instrument.) Guess I've listened to too much Mike >>> Oldfield to be offended by that sort of thing ;)>> Emerson, Lake and Palmer used to use it live, when Greg Lake needed to >> play guitar and bass in the same song. I think they used an analog >> frequency divider. -- Davidgnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, honesty, community_______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
