Re: [LAU] Piano and bass

Miguel M wrote:

> I think that's about as realistic to a real sounding bass as you can
> get.

It was workable enough for them.

> A midi controlled bass instrument will not give you the same sound as a
> real guitar. (Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, Mutes, etc) Of course this
> wouldn't be done for professional audio, but it could be used to have a
> nice practice session.

Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while
we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one
of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think
it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and
a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love
playing with real bassists! :-)

The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played
it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me,
but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing.

> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:17 -1000, david wrote:
>> Rob wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:40, Matthias Schönborn wrote:
>>>> Am Dienstag 04 Dezember 2007 21:15:43 schrieb Miguel M:
>>>>> Hmm, if you want a realistic sounding bass I would suggest
>>>>> plugging in your guitar to jack-rack (or some similar effects
>>>>> program) and use a pitch shifter to shift the pitch down by 50%.
>>>> I did that - kids, don't try this at home!
>>>> (Sounds like everything except a bass ;-) )
>>> It can be a pretty cool effect though (same for double speed bass as a
>>> lead or rhythm instrument.) Guess I've listened to too much Mike
>>> Oldfield to be offended by that sort of thing ;)
>> Emerson, Lake and Palmer used to use it live, when Greg Lake needed to
>> play guitar and bass in the same song. I think they used an analog
>> frequency divider.

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David
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