Please for the love of Pete... Give us an option for STRAIGHT QUARTER NOTE Bass lines! The foundation of every bass players groove arsenal, straight quarters. I can't tell how many times I've had to beg bass players "I know you can play 2000 notes a second... But what I want are quarter notes"
Nothing else has THAT feel. It's the basis of all life on earth! Quarter Notes!
I was excited to get a program like BIAB because i THOUGH It would solve this issue for me, but alas...
If you could add it to the "Bass Pedal" feature set in the Chord Options setting that would be perfect. Right now the Eighth Note option found in above mentioned location is a BEAUTIFUL thing!! STRAIGHT EIGHTH NOTES!!! YES!!! such a great feel Now if only you could add STRAIGHT QUARTERS as an option... You know you want too!!!
This was mostly jest, but if it could be possible... please add the ability to play quarter note bass lines. Oh and make it backwards compatible with version 2019 LOL! Thank you, and thanks for such a great program! I do really love BIAB!!
You should be able to create a usertrack to play just what you need, that maybe easier and quicker than wishing for PG to do it. Actually I think Frank may have made up some bass...
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Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Bluegrass, Rhythm, 110.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Cntry Boogie, Rhythm, 130.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Country, Rhythm, 150.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Cowboy Rock, Rhythm, 125.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Jive 2of4, Rhythm, 85.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Jive 2of4, Rhythm, 85_001.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Jive 2of4, Rhythm, 85_002.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, Movin, Rhythm, 120.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Finger, ooh-Ma ooh-Ma, Rhythm, 100.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Fretless, 70s Blues Rock, Rhythm, 110.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass Fretless, Walking, Rhythm, 65.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, AlleyPick, Rhythm, EV 150.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Finger, 1914, Rhythm, 155.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Finger, Blues+, Rhythm, 95.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Finger, Near Rio+,Rhythm, 120.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Finger, Reggae, Rhythm, 90.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Finger, Spanish+, Rhythm, 115.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Fretless, Latin, Rhythm, 110.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick Bluesy, Rhythm, 130.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, 60s Hits, Rhythm, 125.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, Cntry 70s, Rhythm, 100.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, Gipsy, Rhythm, 105.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, MidEast PT1, Rhythm, 105.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, Reggae, Rhythm, 100.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick, Rock, Rhythm, Pop Ev 120.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Pick2, Rhythm, 120.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass, Rock, LesPaul, Rhythm, EV 115.zip zip Guitar, Electric, Bass+, Pick, Cajun 4Part , Rhythm, 100.zip zip
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Mediafire has 10GIG free. I re-compressed them to rar so they are half the size of the zips. They are in a folder that everyone can browse. It lets users upload to that shared folder so if anyone has some other of Franks UTs or their own they can upload to this folder also. Just compress them to rar or 7zip (7zip is free) if possible to save room.
Right click the link > Open In New "Window" (as you may get ads that pay for the free hosting) To decompress use Winrar or 7zip. You can create a shortcut by \bb\RealTracks\UserTracks right click Send to Desktop create shortcut.. now just drag it out of 7zip or winrar onto the desktop shortcut.
I do appreciate all the help you guys give! It makes this a great community! But I really NEEEEEEED STRAIGHT QUARTERS!! Nothing else gives you that feel. I don't want licks, runs, transition notes, Just a basic line... stay on one single note until it's time, then change to the other. LOL! They did an excellent job in giving the option to drive straight 8ths, I just wish it would do straight quarters. Thank's again for your help!!
Thank you. I will look into those. I would try to create my own but I really don't have the proper stuff to record onto PC. Any time I try I've gotten lag issues and such. My PC isn't to spiffy
Electric Preferably. That is pretty close to the idea. But I don't want 5ths, octaves. walks, runs or licks Or at least have the option for no frills when wanted I want Just a single note to play quarters. Think U2 or the intro to Van Halen, Runnin with the devil... That kinda thing. Thank you for replying, I appreciate all the people on here who answer these forums!
Root note on bass is all I need. I usually ONLY program for bass and drums. But on the occasion I do add piano parts I'd like a fairly laid back part on it also. But so far everything biab has created for the piano parts has been extremely usable, no real complaints.
Why not just use MIDI? You can play the quarter notes for a section of your song and copy and paste them for other verses, choruses, etc. You can quantize your notes so they can be exactly on the beat and exactly one quarter note in length. There are a number of free and inexpensive good sounding bass VSTis you can use for your sound source. Just a thought.
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This is another guide but same deal: 1. Go to bb\RealTracks and right click on UserTracks folder > Send to Desktop create shortcut 2. You can use 7zip https://www.7-zip.org/download.html to open Guitar, Acoustic, Reggae Strum01 Ev16 4-4 90bpm.rar 3. Drag the yellow Guitar, Acoustic, Reggae Strum01 Ev16 4-4 90bpm folder out of 7zip onto the UserTracks shortcut on the desktop. 4. Select an empty track up the top of Biab right click > Select UserTrack for this track. 5. Select > Guitar, Acoustic, Reggae Strum01 Ev16 4-4 90bpm
I agree with Mario, what's wrong with midi? A quarter note bass is about as simple as it gets. You already have a few synths from PG and they have good sounding basses then if you want, download the free TTS-1 which is based on an older Roland sound module. Peter posted a link for that at the top of the Biab for Windows forum. Good basses there too. Here's all you do:
A quarter note bass line is as brain dead simple as it gets. You could have it done in two minutes maybe? Certainly faster than the time it took you to write your original post.
When it comes to User tracks, most are midi based anyway, all they did was render it to audio and voila here's a Real Track in audio. The only difference between those and what you can do yourself is the qualify of playing if they were recorded live off a keyboard or another midi controller vs entering the notation manually. The other difference is the sound quality. I agree if someone created a midi User track and had a top quality synth for the sound like Kontakt or Trillian Bass yes it could sound better than a basic GM synth like the TTS-1.
Here, you asking for a very basic bass track I doubt any of that would matter. Just throw the notes into Notation and check it out.
The whole idea is quick generation, one click and it's done. I and others have asked for midi usertracks many times, this way you could add whatever sound you like. If you had a button in the piano roll "Snap Notes to Chords" "Snap Notes to Base" "Snap Notes to Scale" that would be quick.
This looks like it may work so far I'll do a full song and see for sure when I get time. I REALLY appreciate the help! this was driving me crazy!! Thank you and to all the rest who posted. I will try to check into the MIDI option as I get better at BIAB. I't sound like I could tailor thing even more going that route. Have a great day!!
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