Programming bass

[ShredderForhire]

Any tips for programming bass.
Any good plugins i should look into?

 

[mick thompson]

what you mean by programming?

like midi shit creating a virtual bass sound?

reason would be my 1st hit for doing that.

 

[botus99]

never touched that department, but I've heard the name Trilogy pop up a few times. From the sounds of the demos it sounds pretty beastly

 

[Erik Monsonis]

EastWest QL Hardcore Bass
Broomstick Bass

But nothing like the real deal, I use a cheap Harley Benton 5 string bass thru POD Farm and I've gotten the best bass sounds I could imagine.
150€ isn't too much to get a nice bass sound.

 

[ShredderForhire]

Agreed i would look into pod farm but i have no bass haha. Im looking to program bass via midi and i want to get a tone thats not noticably fake. ill try some reason stuff

 

[Black neon bob]

EastWest QL Hardcore Bass
Broomstick Bass

But nothing like the real deal, I use a cheap Harley Benton 5 string bass thru POD Farm and I've gotten the best bass sounds I could imagine.
150€ isn't too much to get a nice bass sound.

So i take you have the normal POD farm version? or the platinum one?

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I use the standalone version, not the plugin. I use it as I comes along with a free Toneport UX1 update.

EDIT: Then you can use POD Farm (not VST plugin, just a replacement for gearbox) for free.
The 150€ investment i said were meant to be on the bass (my case).

EDIT2: Also, you can record clean guitars with a bass preset on Gearbox/POD Farm and then pitch shift them 1 octave down, as many people does it here (Behindert for example, and his bass tone is far from bad ). Still think the VST Bass is the last option.

 

[lordtech]

do u use the existing presets there in podfarm dandelium?

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Nope, I use this preset.

 

[Djabthrash]

I write my bass parts with guitar pro (the RSE being turned off, i use the pick bass), and exports the .wav file outta it and then import it in my DAW and EQ it, and that works for me.

 

[grywolf627]

Recently discovered Core Bass - Cherry Picked. Admittedly, I haven't played with too many bass VSTis (a few, but not Broomstick or Hardcore), but it's by far the best of those that I tried.

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

I love Broomstick Bass for slower stuff. I always use it in manual mode. I've gotten some great sounds out of Scarbee Black Bass DI version. I generally use something like Revalver II on either. I've tried several others and I think ANY bass VSTi sounds shitty super fast though. From there it's good ole piano roll...

I haven't tried to do the pitched down guitar trick yet but that would seem to be the most natural/intuitive. I guess I'm just too Guitarded to take that step.