With a decent MIDI pickup on the guitar, you could speed up the process considerably as you could play the bassline in realtime and record it as MIDI data to the Melody or Soloist track. Just stick to the lower four strings, of course.

The trick is to transpose the notes down one octave after recording, then apply a good Bass MIDI output solution that you like.

I've done it that way using MIDI guitar and MIDI keyboard controllers for years. I like it much better than step entry, note-by-note entry methods. And some of those slides and things can indeed be just played in and, depending upon the type and quality of MIDI pickup and translator box, will get recorded to MIDI complete with certain CC data that mimics them.

My other trick is to record the guitar being played as bass one octave up to Audio track in the sequencer. Then I apply Pitch Shift algorithm plugin to take it down one octave. This one won't sound like a string bass at all with the standard electromagnetic pickup electric guitar, rather, it can sound remarkably like a solid body bass guitar at work. Use of audio compressor plugin after the fact is almost mandatory with this one, as it is with recording a real bass guitar.


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