What is the best way to get the best, realistic sounds of an acoustic bass and jazz brushes for BIAB ? I want to "form" a jazz trio with me playing piano.
Is there a VSTi library of these instruments you can use as a plug-in with BIAB and if so, which ones ? A nice flugelhorn or harmon muted trumpet would be nice too.
What is the best way to get the best, realistic sounds of an acoustic bass and jazz brushes for BIAB ? I want to "form" a jazz trio with me playing piano.
Bob
Open up the style-picker and filter for brushes, then go to the genre column and click. Go down to JAZZ genre. The first one on the list sounds great to me. Acoustic bass brushes, and piano. Listen to the demo song. Open that up and mute the piano track in BIAB, that's one example of Brushes,Bass w/o the piano.
When your in style picker mark which Jazz trio's you like as your favorites. You can then display these simply by choosing favorites in the style picker.
Last edited by dga; 06/04/1610:06 AM.
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I just suggested filter by brushes, click the genre column to sort by genre. Scroll down to JAZZ. First one on the list is a great piano brush and bass trio
Last edited by dga; 06/04/1604:53 PM.
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If you want the best sounding acoustic bass and jazz brushes, use the real track basses and jazz brushes. The tracks where recorded by real musician, playing real instruments, unlike a VST or VSTi, which mostly like would be just samples of the instruments.
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