EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thanks Murray, I'll check 'em out!

Bob

> From: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:40:33 +1100
> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [exs] Bass Guitar Samples and EXS instruments
> 
> 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
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