EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Bob Vandiver wrote: 
>
> This wouldn't happen to be a nice punchy bass with very little "funk" snap
> and pop (every elect bass seems to be obligated to sound like this)? I have
> been searching for _the_ basic bass sound that is used on probably 95% of
> all rock/pop music. One example: the bass sound used by Paul McCartney on "I
> want you (She's so heavy)"


I love that tune -- changes time signiature all over the place, great sounds,
good playing and recorded well --  even the Hammond parts are good.

These are not funky "snap and pop" samples. There are four patches: three are
multisample sets -- finger, pick and muted -- which is usually just a pick bass
sort of sound with palm resting on the strings near the bridge and damping the
normal decay. I have trimmed the attack sections so that the response to the
keyboard is instant. In the soundfont,  the samples include the initial section
of the envelope where the string is still in contact with the pick or the
finger. The delay makes them unplayable for my purposes. 

The finger sound is warm and not very punchy. 

The pick sound is brighter and has a sharper attack -- you can back that off
with the filter if you like -- in much the same way as you can approximate the
finger sound when using a pick by backing off the tone control. That might be a
good way to approximate the sound you want. 

The muted sound is very good -- quite percussive and pretty well matched
tonally with the pick sound so you can play a phrase which use these two
articulations.

Regards,
Murray