How to do a bass slide?

some patches for EXS have slide samples included. should be more convincing than the pitch bend wheel. these might be in third party libraries you have to buy.

G4 450DP Mac OS X (10.4.4) digidesign, motu, apogee

sounds like a synth bass with the pitch bend set to between 5 to 7 semitones. they struck the note and immediately went pitch bend up, to make it slide up in pitch, and then pitch bend down, to make it slide all the way down

This a 1-octave slide-down.

• If this is a synthesizer — or an EXS-driven sample, you might bend the pitch 12 semi-tones down, or use a pitch-envelope effect: from the spectral vantage point, it wouldn't make any [noticable] difference anyway.

• If it's audio data, you can achieve a similar result using the AU Pitch plug-in:
- enable the automation view option
- adjust the pitch parameter down to -1200 cents [linearly] over 1/2 second or so...

No preset for this, although some GB instruments do use bass slide-down samples that do just that — albeit more realistically.

More precisely: the first 100 ms slide up from G1 to G2 and the remaining time slides down from G2 to G1: anyway, you can still use any of the above solutions to achieve this...

No particular "present" for this yet!

Did it help?

There EXS presets, but you can also set the Pitcher slider to do this for any patch. You can also control the pitch of the oscillators with an envelope in ES-2 to achieve this. Many ways to accomplish this.

jord

Keith,

It's simply a glissando (slide down the keyboard) using a monophonic bass patch, with legato enabled, so that as you (quickly) slide down the keyboard, each note is triggered without "re-attacking".

Ironically, the same question was asked over at Sonikmatter just the other day, and I posted an example using Logic's ES-1 "Dry Bass" preset.

Here's the thread...

http://community.sonikmatter.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30772

Hope that helps



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