Replacing bass notes with sine waves?

[rbkonline1]

Hi,

I have read about replacing bass notes with pure sine waves in few places

before but couldn't quite figure out how to do this. Can anybody be kind

enough to say a few words about this? Does the bass has to be sequenced in

midi in order to do so?

 

[Scott Horner]

Program the bass in a MIDI track and route it to a sine wave generator. Alternatively, if you had some sort of pitch correction software such as Melodyne, you may be able to load it up, analyze it and export the track as MIDI. Not sure how well this might work as I've never tried it.

 

[timislegend]

or ... you can just use a synthesizer plugin that has a sine wave osc. then program the notes via midi.

 

[setyouranchor]

What Tim said.

I wouldn't really bother though, I've done it a few times for a couple of bands and I'd rather just get a nice sounding bass tone rather than mess around with the sine wave trick

 

[rbkonline1]

Thanks for the infos guys...can you recommend me a simple sine wave generator vst?

 

[GearMan2point0]

Right now I am recording a band that tunes Drop A. How would I go about doing this? They want to keep their bass in the mix's and not program the bass, which I am fine with, what ways are there to make it actually sound decent?

 

[Goodfellas453]

Right now I am recording a band that tunes Drop A. How would I go about doing this? They want to keep their bass in the mix's and not program the bass, which I am fine with, what ways are there to make it actually sound decent?

size 13 strings on guitars, melodyne the bass track to keep in tune

 

[timislegend]

i know this sounds aweful... and a bit cheeky but, for the last three artists i have worked with, the bass has been completely reprogrammed with trilian.

i can mix bass... that is never the problem, it's just that most bass players are pretty wonky and "all over the place."

so, until i can find a way to make the talent, better... i will resort to my own abilities.


i just tell them ..."you are a fabulous bass player!"

 

[Goodfellas453]

haha i have been thinking about getting this baby and trying it out!

http://www.sonuus.com/products_b2m.html

 

[GearMan2point0]

I am going to have to keep working with Melodyne, I am still trying to figure out how to use the damn thing!

 

[DevonSteelman]

It's pretty easy.. HP the bass at around your highest note frequency, use a sinewave generator, and then align it. I've been using (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10111722/sinewavenotes.jpg) with much success to figure out what frequency each note is. It's a very good reference. As a side note, your bass has to be very in tune to be able to do this. If it's too many cents off, I recommend using Melodyne.

 

[Teocida]

I would like to know more about this. What about the bass is playing alone? :S

 

[Seth Munson]

Just make it groove, that way when its playing alone it sounds real.

Play with the attack and release of comps to get it grooving, as JJP would say.

 

[OneDaySky]

i can mix bass... that is never the problem, it's just that most bass players are pretty wonky and "all over the place."

i just tell them ..."you are a fabulous bass player!"

Gosh this is so true on my side too! What they dont know wont kill em!

 

[OneDaySky]

I use a rad little vst called 'subfreak' great little sine wave generator

 

[Teocida]

Just make it groove, that way when its playing alone it sounds real.

Play with the attack and release of comps to get it grooving, as JJP would say.

Thank you, Seth. But, did u try this way? Du have any work done with this technique? I dunno but I think it could sound a bit unreal without fret noise. I would like you to show any.

 

[Seth Munson]

Thank you, Seth. But, did u try this way? Du have any work done with this technique? I dunno but I think it could sound a bit unreal without fret noise. I would like you to show any.

Yea I program a lot of bass