Tips/advices for Trilian

[The-Zeronaut]

I,ve been interested in this bass Vsti for a long time and i remember reading that Joey used it on some cds (i think it was on the i am abomination thread) and Sascha from enditol used it too for the cd
so i thought "if its is good enough for Joey to use on a cd it has to be good"

i have two basses that sound more or less decent live but i don't like them for studio stuff.
And since i can program bass 20 times faster in guitar pro than playing that actual song (and editing/tuning it)
i thought of using trilian for some songs i´m going to record with my band in a couple of months or simply to use it for the demos/preproduction.

So if any of you have tips/advices on how make it sound real (and getting a good sound of course ) it would be greatly appreciated

 

[timislegend]

velocity and multiple instantiations of trilian is the key to a more realistic performance.


example: use slide articulations on separate tracks and make sure you pay attention to articulations like hammer-ons/off and velocity not repeat.

other than that i would say experiment! it's pretty much a plug-in-play instrument if you are fairly adept at midi programming.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

bump

 

[OneDaySky]

Mine arrives pretty soon, so id'e also like to know a few thing s before installing.

 

[ahjteam]

If you are a really good keyboard player, you'll find Trillian a breeze, otherwise it will take a good while to get realistic sounding performance.

 

[timislegend]

i am a fairly good pianist... but it's a bigger production effort than you would think.

in order to have a realistic bass sound with "true" articulations, it must be set up appropriately in trilian. i suppose playing well helps a bit but i can't stress enough just how much different it is to "model" the right bass tone in trilian. although it helps a lot that the instruments are sampled so darn well!

 

[ahjteam]

Also checking the product demos could be worth checking out:

 

[TaylorG]

Have you tried the 'Feardse' bass method at all?
I'm getting quite decent results trying that.

 

[Seth Munson]

I love trillian, awesome and powerful stuff.
My best advice would be just to play around with it and in time you will get the hang of it.

 

[Williamn]

/Necroed

I was wondering what would be peoples go-to basses in trilian ?
Any tips for some stuff inside the program that can help alot making the sound better/more realistic ?

 

[Seth Munson]

I only use the Pick P-Bass.

 

[setyouranchor]

Practise.

And Seth, the Hardcore Finger model is WAYY better sounding IMHO

 

[Seth Munson]

Practise.

And Seth, the Hardcore Finger model is WAYY better sounding IMHO

nope

 

[TaylorG]

I only use the Pick P-Bass.

Same here.

 

[Scott Horner]

Hardcore gets used mostly for my heavier tracks but I used the retro 60's bass just yesterday in a folk/country track I produced.

 

[masque-]

I usually end up using the Bissonette studio bass. I always like the way that one sounds.

 

[Seth Munson]

I am actually curious how many of you actually use the built in amp sim or do you guys reamp?

 

[Scott Horner]

I am actually curious how many of you actually use the built in amp sim or do you guys reamp?

Ampeg SVX almost always.

 

[masque-]

I am actually curious how many of you actually use the built in amp sim or do you guys reamp?

TSE BOD + virtual bass amp

 

[setyouranchor]

I am actually curious how many of you actually use the built in amp sim or do you guys reamp?

I turn off compression, set the DI to around -3ish and blend the amp in until there is just a tiny bit more bass, then back off a bit.