On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:17:48PM -1000, david wrote: > 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! :-) I agree. I played a couple gigs with a jazz combo as a "keyboard bassist", and it's just not the same. Here's what that sounded like: http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/169/0/morning-bell-jam-2007-07-08.ogg We played Saturday night using our new, real bassist, and it sounded a lot better. I have video clips around that I need to edit and post, but haven't yet. > > 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. Actually what Manzarek used, was a Fender Piano Bass, which is basically the 2 lower octaves of a Fender Rhodes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_bass -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
