Yep got a email showing some of the new stuff from Toontrack. EZbass will be much like EZkeys and EZdrummer. It will be released Q4 2019. Toontrack EZbass
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EZDrummer is an amazing program; the single biggest step up in quality of my demos of any music software purchase I have made since I bought PowerTracks Pro Audio in the 90’s
I have had some instrument purchases and decisions that made big steps; like deciding to learn bass guitar about 12 years ago.
If Toontrack is going to put their brand on this one can almost count on it being great.
Toontracks also sent me an email announcing the upcoming product. I have both ezdrummer, superior drummer and Addictive drums. I like all three for certain things. I just got ezkeys a few weeks ago and it has been a fun program to play with.
When Toontracks sent the email I looked around to see what else existed in a bass program. I downloaded UJAM demo copy of VB Royal. It cost $130 if I wanted to buy it and I did not think it was worth the money.
It will be interesting to see how ezbass works.
What I would like to see is a program that generates bass lines in the style of...
Paul McCartney Flea John Paul Jones Geddy Lee Les Claypool Vicor Wooten John Entwistle Lemmy Kilmister Jaco Pastorius Jack Bruce Roger Waters Bootsy Collins Cliff Burton Charles Mingus John Patitucci
and perhaps a few other bass players!!
There are bass players that can play in many of those styles and could lay down real tracks for PG Music or other software developers.
Phil Capone a guitar player produced a book with a CD of very good examples of blues lines typical of famous players.
Any of this can be done as there are plenty of studio musicians who can do these sort of things.
I find the piano lines in BB are much better that the piano lines in ezkeys. BB is a bit more difficult to work with but produces better results...just my 2 and 1/2 cents worth...lol
At the end of the day I think it could be less problem for me to become a better bass player than to try to get bass lines from software for 90% of the things I want to do. The other 10% can get done by a studio musician. No software I have ever messed with can replace a pro studio musician.
Who knows, perhaps one day we will see a group of musicians playing computers live at the Grammys...lol
Cheers,
Billy
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I find the piano lines in BB are much better that the piano lines in ezkeys. BB is a bit more difficult to work with but produces better results...just my 2 and 1/2 cents worth...lol
You can take any piano line in BIAB and drop the MIDI into EZkeys, but unlike BIAB you can have many more chords per bar than 4. PG Music and Toontrack both have similar ideas with the addon style packs. And of course this is a never ending source of revenue for the most part.
I am amazed at the software we now have at our disposal to create the quality of music that sounds so good. Brian
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