Toontracks EZbass

andy_camb · Post by **andy_camb** » Fri May 15, 2020 1:06 pm

Anybody looking at Toontracks upcoming Ezbass? May 19th it is being released.
Could be a great complement to Jamstix?

What are your thoughts ?

Azimuth (Archive) · Post by **Azimuth (Archive)** » Fri May 15, 2020 10:50 pm

Yes I'm interested in it but I plan on waiting for a few reports from the field before I consider a purchase. I'm not crazy about it being midi based but any options are limited in that regard.

andy_camb · Post by **andy_camb** » Sat May 16, 2020 12:43 am

It looks pretty good from the few videos I've seen.
Raphs Jambassist seems to have been put on hold indefinitely, this might be the next best thing. Especially the convert guitar audio to bass midi function and from midi keyboard, choosing left hand or chords..

MPDmike · Post by **MPDmike** » Sat May 16, 2020 1:08 pm

I raised this on 22nd April in a post further down.

I could use a virtual bassist myself and I think that EZbass might have some useful features. I can imagine importing some of the bass lines from BIAB RealTracks, editing them in EZbass, and then using the result to drive another bass instrument like Amplesound upright bass My need is for an acoustic bass that sounds like a real player.

It's a pity that Jambassist got put on the backburner, but I can imagine that there are a lot of technical issues in creating software that works like Jamstix and covers all the different styles of a bass player.

Jae.Thomas · Post by **Jae.Thomas** » Sat May 16, 2020 5:33 pm

I still REALLY wish we had "JamBass" haha, I need a bassist haha

although I admit I've been getting better at laying bass down

d_steinschneider · Post by **d_steinschneider** » Tue May 19, 2020 9:59 am

I just watched their EZbass - Introduction video on YouTube.

My primary instrument is bass so I could nitpick a few things like the demo using a beat up "vintage" Precision bass - with 5 strings???

The product is nothing like Jam Bassist - there is no "AI" - you have direct this bass player in just about every detail. Where the product shines is that the user interface is extremely efficient for doing so. If anyone has ever looked at the grid editor for Superior Drummer 3, the EZbass editor is very similar.

The two basses that come with EZbass (vintage and modern) are multi-sampled with tremendous detail. In the grid editor you easily raise or lower all velocities in relation to each other or just pull a few notes louder or softer. You can apply most finger styles, slap, picking, slides, ghost notes etc.

There is a chord picker that makes it easy to apply the chord changes to the song. I could go on but if you've read this far just head over to the video:

https://youtu.be/md5CJtDCy6o

andy_camb · Post by **andy_camb** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:25 pm

I have been watching lots of the first look videos on this software. It's the best bass vst I have seen yet.
So easy to alter articulations and add them to groups or individual notes. Not the AI Jambass Ralph could come up with but the nearest thing so far.. With the midi drum input, you could create bass tracks from Jamstix grooves..
Sounds fantastic as well.

sonicviz · Post by **sonicviz** » Sat May 23, 2020 9:47 pm

EzBass works really well with EZKeys and Jamstix. I made a quick jam test the other night with it https://hearthis.at/sonicviz/nocountryforboldmen/

That bass line was generated with the audio to midi, which is even more accurate than Jam2Midi bass.

For actual jamming along the lines of Jamstix dynamic responsiveness uJamm bass is more versatile. You can drive uJam bass with trigger midi notes similar to Jamstix live mode to switch parts, and you can control it's sound and complexity in real time by modulating the pitch and mod wheels via audio to cc similar to audiomate. This also works to some extent with uJam drummer, but Jamstix is much more versatile here.

jimgue_77 · Post by **jimgue_77** » Mon May 25, 2020 11:42 am

sonicviz wrote:EzBass works really well with EZKeys and Jamstix. I made a quick jam test the other night with it https://hearthis.at/sonicviz/nocountryforboldmen/

That bass line was generated with the audio to midi, which is even more accurate than Jam2Midi bass.

Thanks for posting. I see you used Trilian as the bass sound module driven by EZBass. I would like to do the same (with Modo Bass) and wondered how the articulations come out from EZBass (if they do at all) or is it a manual process in Trilian/Modo to do slides/slaps,etc?

Jae.Thomas · Post by **Jae.Thomas** » Mon May 25, 2020 11:51 am

thats a fantastic question