Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

>
> Or you can spend $300 on a used Fender P-bass (mexican maybe), and  
> then
> have a real bass with real drive. You can use the amp sim plugs in
> logic. And even if you don't play bass, you can pick it up pretty fast
> and get better results than trying to write bass lines in the  
> sequencer.
>

That's an interesting thought, but you seem to be suggesting that bass  
guitar is very easy to pick up and learn. Is that really the case? I'm  
not actually trying to use a sequencer to get my bass sounds, but  
playing it as live on a keyboard. My keyboard skills are pretty good,  
but still my basslines are sluggish, and instead of driving the song  
on, they seem to hold them back.



> Another option is to hire one of these guys on the internet. But it  
> can
> lead to some money too. It was very nice of someone here to offer to
> record these for free, but if you have more than a few songs, that is
> going to get tiring to record all kinds of stuff.
>
>
Well I'm going to take Eric up on his kind offer, but I do agree that  
it would be my aim to be able to be able to do it myself, not least  
because bass is so intrinsic to any piece that it probably needs to be  
put down fairly early on in the process

Andy B


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin <martinhmh7@...>
> To: Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com <Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 12:00 pm
> Subject: Re: [Logic_Cafe] Strumming acoustic guitars and driving  
> basses
>
>
> Totally agree regarding Trilian. Not only does it give realistic
> sounding bass sounds it is highly configurable.
>
> Definitely worth the money in my opinion.
>
> Martin
>
> On 29 Jan 2010, at 18:28, Steve Currington  
> <steve@singers.org.nz>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Can't really help re Rhythm/Strumming guitar but..
>
> For a driving bass have you looked at Spectrasonics Trillian.
> Pretty good plug-in.. Not exacly cheap but a worthwhile investment if
> you wil be needing to do bass likes often.
> It can be previewed at
> http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilian.php
> and at this location there are some video's.
>
> If you have Logic v9.x you can also use some of the stomp box effects
> and amp effects to add some additional grind etc.
>
> OK never exactly like a real playing human but probably as close as  
> you
> will bet without and way way better than the Logic inbuilt ones.
>
> Steve
>
> On 29/01/2010, at 6:10 AM, bbgrove@... wrote:
>
> I don't have access to any guitar players, and I need a strumming  
> guitar
> part in a song. It won't be soloed, but I do need to be able to choose
> my
> own chords. The acoustic guitars in Logic are a bit rubbish as far  
> as I
> can see, and the ones that add chords have a very limited range of
> chords
> (unless of course I am missing something, which I might well be).
>
> Can anyone suggest an affordable and reasonably good and simple was  
> for
> a
> non guitarist to get something that sounds reasonably authentic?
>
> The other thing I am failing with at the moment is a driving bassline.
> To
> my untutored ears there are loads of very good bass sounds in Logic,  
> but
> no matter how much I practice, they just sound like me playing them  
> on a
> keyboard (and I am a pretty good keyboard player). Any ideas, other  
> than
> find a bass player?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Andy B
>
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