Finally sat down with EZ BASS early this morning. Was struggling a bit on using it effectively then I remembered this video. Jason explains it in a way that made it easy for me to run a bass line . As always, I always learn something watching your videos. Thanks brother!!!
Thank you Jason, very informative as always. I bought it the day it came out. It's a game changer for me. I certainly don't know any bassists who can play that well. And it's so quick, easy and convenient. Brilliant.
When you combine this with EZ Keys & one their drum packages, you have a potent songwriting workflow! Thanks for the video, I will be using this for a jumpstart tomorrow 😄
I quite like it, most guitarists can play bass, and all keyboardists can play virtual bass. Its early days for me but right now it is quicker and fluid to play a cheap bass into a modelling plugin than editing in EZ bass. Of course the tracker facility is useful at that point, I just think one will have to be using EZ bass constantly to become fast and fluid with it. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO BROTHER love from London 🇬🇧
@@robwilliams82xx I do this with MIDI while taking sounds from my Yamaha Motif XF8 and it’s plain fantastic! These software programs have become amazing and with a bit of ingenuity you’re able to accomplish so much. It’s made making music such a pleasure and has made things so much faster for my songwriting and workflow, in general. I also just added an Akai MPD218 to my desk for finger-drumming in EZ Drummer too - WOW!!! Many sleepless nights ahead... What a blast, right! ✌🏼
Bought EZ Bass last night but didn’t have much time to try it out. It will be getting my full attention when I get home this evening. Thanks for this tutorial.
Once you start playing the piano on that little progression you've got reminds me of late 70's early 80's network television programs. Like Hill Street Blues, Greatest American Hero or something. 😆
Coming from EZ Bake Oven, this is so much better and requires less light bulbs too... Thanks for this Jason. I purchased EZ Bass a few days ago to go with EZ Drummer II and I was holed up in the Home Studio for 3 days havin’ a blast! Wish we had these apps and programs back in the day, but better late then never! ✌🏼
Thank you man for a good tips. I saved some money with buying on sweetwater. I have been thinking for a long time if i need buy a bass guitar. But i am not such a great player and for the same prices as this product i wouldn't get any good tones. For me as a songwriter is a game changer.
Great video. I bought this yesterday and had a couple of hours on it last night and its brilliant. I'll use this very video as a reference to all my sceptical musical friends that are on the fence about it . This clearly shows how easy it is to use and create a great sounding bass track. Thanks
12:22 you can actually grab the chord only section and drag onto the 2 nd part...or even drag in the groove to the first part as these are all separated segments....+ much much more.
Hello Jason, very nice video and so good explained. I just haven’t see how you use the UNDO fonction! Thank you for your future answer… congratulations.
Well..all I did was to look at Studio One videos...then see EZ Drummer vids...then EZ Bass vids... I got so tired of sitting here during COVID just strumming. All these tools have caused over 5 songs to be recorded and another 20 songs in the making. if your a musician-take the time and run with all these tools. COVID lockdown ain't going to last forever Brother!
does the midi articulation mapping play well at all with Trillian? Note on note off would work fine, but with all those slides and squeaks and noise samples mapped out over the whole 88 keys of a multi, I'm really hoping you can get the EZbass midi sequencer to play nice with Trillian articulation mapping at some point
Fascinating product. I'm very intrigued. Great video. Can you confirm what the lowest modeled note is? I have read that it is the A below the natural tuned B of a typical bass but would like to be certain. Also, what happens if you try and drop an octave lower than the actual recorded notes?
Question and I can’t find this answer ANYWHERE! How do I make it into an audio file after I’m don’t editing it? I have cuebase as well and can’t figure out how to get it to export out as a wav
Thank you, thank you, thank you Jason for saying "temPLATE" and not "temPLET" like so many people seem to do these days. When I hear "temPLET", I just can't listen to the video any more, we're done.
good video, the problem I had with EZ keys, is that I was having to fit my songs into the patterns given. Should be the other way around. Im wondering if the bass would have enough variations that it wouldnt force me to compromise the feel I want
Looks, and sounds, fantastic. I'm guessing by now you'll have reamped it through the Helix... How does it hold up? I'm guessing it'd be superb, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Hi, I think EZbass has awesome sound. But there one big problem. And that is the if you hit note A on E string, it is the same note A on A string, and completely unrealistic, i hope am wrong because I got this a week ago but still using scarbee rickenbcker bass. Please let me know if am wrong.
Great video! Since you mentioned that you've used Modo Bass as well, is there a chance there could be a pro/con comparison video in the nearish future? Also... subbed
Thanks! Can you type in more complex chords like "sus" or "aug" to make the app use the notes in those chords while "walking" or transitioning? Also, once you have a groove you like, can the app make automatic variations on that groove, so that it varies between eg different verses?
This isn’t for a bass player to stop playing bass. It’s for people that don’t play bass to get some good tones for songwriting/demo recordings. Some who do not play bass may just leave the EZ Bass in for a final mix. I believe most would want a bass player record the bass part for a final mix.
I always prefer to play the guitar with the pitch-shifter -12 semitones in a Helix patch with a bass amp. since in any case it is better to pretend that it feels like it has been played by me ... even badly. It is too cumbersome to make a bass line like this. In the case of the drums, however, it is a completely different story.
I always take EZdrummer midi files out of the program and insert it into my DAW. Does the midi file have to stay in the EZbass program? Or can you move it to your DAW so you can monitor what's going on in the song with all the other tracks? I want all my parts where I can see them and not have to go to different screens to monitor data.
I don’t have EZ Bass, but I have EZ Drummer (just 1 week in) and I do exactly what you’re talking about. Since it’s the same designer and EZ Bass is a component in a suite of similarly designed software, I’d be flabbergasted if it didn’t. If that’s the only thing keeping you from buying it, just buy it. 99.9999999999999999999999% chance that it does. But if you need to be 100% certain, either ask Toontrack or read/watch other reviews/tutorials.
Would be amazing and I think it's essential too, cause many sound designer double up a real bass line with a synth sound or a filter or something else where you need the midi notes.
Enjoy listening to EZbass and I love the natural sound, but it is not user friendly when you drag and drop midi flies from other DAW into EZbass, it doesnt work. This is a real setback as there are many great midi files created from other DAWS that you are unable to use in EZbass, in the form of drag and drop.
No much of a metal player but this patch is awesome from Jason shop.line6.com/marketplace/metal-through-the-decades-hx-stomp-pack.html - sorry, off topic but I love it. I'm going to get EZBass for sure. I have SD2, EZ Drummer, EZ Keys too. Toontrack is a great company.
Jason Sadites that’s what I would do but not sure if every helix player has native. And knows there are 3 audio tracks in easy bass I just have Helix native.
This is pointless, Most guitar players today have either a Helix or Kemper. By using pitch shift on either of these units you can get a very convincing bass sound. Always being LOCKED into preset grooves, you're music ideas will always be compromised. I'll pass.
You can record like you said and then import the audio in ezbass. The plugin change it to midi so you can use the sounds of ezbass in case you don't have a bass. You can program the grooves from scratch or play them with a midi keyboard and then edit. It's a hell of a lot more than just preset grooves. Even if you are a great bass player, the audio to midi could be great for change the bass sound to a bass synth sound or maybe both. Again, plugins are not for everyone, but I never really like any bass library and this plugin is very cool for it's functionality.
I've used Ample Sound Metal Ray (similar to EZbass), but what I use it for is 1) composing the bass lines, 2) creating tablatures for myself, as I often record the actual parts sometimes a couple years later.
You are locked nowhere. You can completely edit everything or play your lines via a keyboard into your DAW or drag recorded audio into EZ bass to convert it to midi notes and than edit this further more. What exactely do you mean? Btw it opens up sound design worlds if you have audio plus the midi track parallel. You can spice your accustic instruments up by under mixing crazy synth stuff or a very low piano under heavy guitars or take samples to enhance initial transients or work with cool sound and sharp envelopes to enhance the attack of a bass and whatnot, possibilities are endless.
one of the most useful tutorials I ve ever seen about EZBass , congrats!!!!
probably the best video I have seen on EZ bass from a practical use stand point
You had me at Rush T-shirt.
Bought mine this morning. It's a game changer. Definitely better than I expected!
Finally sat down with EZ BASS early this morning. Was struggling a bit on using it effectively then I remembered this video. Jason explains it in a way that made it easy for me to run a bass line . As always, I always learn something watching your videos. Thanks brother!!!
Awesome, love that you’re expanding these instructional videos outside of helix.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you Jason, very informative as always. I bought it the day it came out. It's a game changer for me. I certainly don't know any bassists who can play that well. And it's so quick, easy and convenient. Brilliant.
I bought this morning...its pretty great!..
When you combine this with EZ Keys & one their drum packages, you have a potent songwriting workflow! Thanks for the video, I will be using this for a jumpstart tomorrow 😄
Don’t forget EZ Bake Oven!!!
Fresh cookies after the jam session... 🤣🤣🤣
✌🏼
I quite like it, most guitarists can play bass, and all keyboardists can play virtual bass. Its early days for me but right now it is quicker and fluid to play a cheap bass into a modelling plugin than editing in EZ bass. Of course the tracker facility is useful at that point, I just think one will have to be using EZ bass constantly to become fast and fluid with it. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO BROTHER love from London 🇬🇧
I can't wait for EZTrumpet, EZ Trombone and EZ Saxophone so I can start my own Ska band
Only half kidding tbh
Take the midi from ezbass and drop it into a brass vst. Boom
@@robwilliams82xx I do this with MIDI while taking sounds from my Yamaha Motif XF8 and it’s plain fantastic!
These software programs have become amazing and with a bit of ingenuity you’re able to accomplish so much. It’s made making music such a pleasure and has made things so much faster for my songwriting and workflow, in general.
I also just added an Akai MPD218 to my desk for finger-drumming in EZ Drummer too - WOW!!!
Many sleepless nights ahead...
What a blast, right! ✌🏼
EZfart sound good hmmm
That is the best EZ Bass Tutorial on CZcams. Had many questions and they have been all answered now. Thanks a lot Jason!
Thanks for the time you put into making this video. fantastic tutorial . Helped me out a lot.
Bought EZ Bass last night but didn’t have much time to try it out. It will be getting my full attention when I get home this evening. Thanks for this tutorial.
Best video I’ve seen yet regarding this amazing tool from Toontrack. Thank you.
Your video was so good I didn't need to look at the manual. Thanks.
Got mine today as well- but I knew Jason would find the stuff in I didn't so far- THANKS Man!
Once you start playing the piano on that little progression you've got reminds me of late 70's early 80's network television programs. Like Hill Street Blues, Greatest American Hero or something. 😆
Coming from EZ Bake Oven, this is so much better and requires less light bulbs too...
Thanks for this Jason. I purchased EZ Bass a few days ago to go with EZ Drummer II and I was holed up in the Home Studio for 3 days havin’ a blast!
Wish we had these apps and programs back in the day, but better late then never! ✌🏼
Tbh, for a guitar player this ezbass does more than buying a real bass
Got mine today, the software is amazing!
The best REAL demo on YT..... thanks for this...!
You're very welcome!
Define “REAL.”
Yep and he is not biased and doesn’t try to sell it .
I'm loving it!
Wow, that transition thing is pretty realistic - thank you!
Thank you man for a good tips. I saved some money with buying on sweetwater. I have been thinking for a long time if i need buy a bass guitar. But i am not such a great player and for the same prices as this product i wouldn't get any good tones. For me as a songwriter is a game changer.
Soooo powerful!
Great video. I bought this yesterday and had a couple of hours on it last night and its brilliant. I'll use this very video as a reference to all my sceptical musical friends that are on the fence about it . This clearly shows how easy it is to use and create a great sounding bass track. Thanks
Thanks for the great walk through. Excited to get to work demoing with this.
Thank you, great tutorial! I will be playing it a lot to get the most out of it! Fantastic work, so grateful!!
Thanks for posting this! It helped me a lot! I was having trouble with the audio to midi feature. Thanks again!
I've been waiting for this!!!
Came for the vid (just bought ezbass), subbed for the Caress Of Steel vinyl and Rush t-shirt. 🤙
Yess! You got me convinced. Just bought it. This is amazing👍
Great walkthrough, very inspiring! Subscribed.
Pretty cool software!
Thanks for posting this Jason. This software is great.
12:22 you can actually grab the chord only section and drag onto the 2 nd part...or even drag in the groove to the first part as these are all separated segments....+ much much more.
Brilliant job Jason, just picked this up and the video was super helpful 👍👍👍
Excellent work!!! Best review yet!!!!! Very through !!!!! Easy to follow !!!!!!
Great vid. I learned more by your initial trial then I did any where else. haha.
this is going to be a remix game changer
Why does Toontrack EZ Drummer 3 & Bass not have a Automatic Sync Together Button ?
Hello Jason, very nice video and so good explained. I just haven’t see how you use the UNDO fonction! Thank you for your future answer… congratulations.
You guys are gonna make me start writing/recording again.
Well..all I did was to look at Studio One videos...then see EZ Drummer vids...then EZ Bass vids... I got so tired of sitting here during COVID just strumming. All these tools have caused over 5 songs to be recorded and another 20 songs in the making. if your a musician-take the time and run with all these tools. COVID lockdown ain't going to last forever Brother!
I love RUSH! Toontrack, and Cubase...we should hang out 😉
Love it ...
Nice shirt!
does the midi articulation mapping play well at all with Trillian? Note on note off would work fine, but with all those slides and squeaks and noise samples mapped out over the whole 88 keys of a multi, I'm really hoping you can get the EZbass midi sequencer to play nice with Trillian articulation mapping at some point
Having a problem trying to save audio file. I can not export it's greyed out. maybe you can tell me what's wrong...
Thanks, Jason,
Finally! Punk Rock bass player can do some slappin’!
Watch out Flea.
Amazing.
Fascinating product. I'm very intrigued. Great video. Can you confirm what the lowest modeled note is? I have read that it is the A below the natural tuned B of a typical bass but would like to be certain. Also, what happens if you try and drop an octave lower than the actual recorded notes?
Question and I can’t find this answer ANYWHERE! How do I make it into an audio file after I’m don’t editing it? I have cuebase as well and can’t figure out how to get it to export out as a wav
Thank you, thank you, thank you Jason for saying "temPLATE" and not "temPLET" like so many people seem to do these days. When I hear "temPLET", I just can't listen to the video any more, we're done.
I get a strange oscillation on the notes when using the tracker function.
very nice vid, thanks
It also seems to be groove oriented, If you are a funk artist it might do nicely, if you are a folk songwriter not sure how this adds to it
good video, the problem I had with EZ keys, is that I was having to fit my songs into the patterns given. Should be the other way around. Im wondering if the bass would have enough variations that it wouldnt force me to compromise the feel I want
Looks, and sounds, fantastic. I'm guessing by now you'll have reamped it through the Helix... How does it hold up? I'm guessing it'd be superb, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Hi, I think EZbass has awesome sound. But there one big problem. And that is the if you hit note A on E string, it is the same note A on A string, and completely unrealistic, i hope am wrong because I got this a week ago but still using scarbee rickenbcker bass.
Please let me know if am wrong.
cool !
Great video! Since you mentioned that you've used Modo Bass as well, is there a chance there could be a pro/con comparison video in the nearish future? Also... subbed
As a Cubase user, will EZBass follow the Chord Track in the DAW (Via ARA2)?
One issue I ran into on this EZ Bass tool is that I can't figure out how to export the MIDI from EZ Bass into the Editor on Cubase.
Getty Lee would be Proud!!
Thanks Jason! Bought it today along with EZ Drummer 2. Love your vids! Keep it up! Do you know if EZ Keys will ever get a Hammond B3?
You can just drop the MIDI onto the track and then add whatever VST you want.
I would suggest either the Arturia B3 or the IK B3X
A nice option if you're stuck for a bass.
Thanks for the video :-) if you register the bass line in Cubase, do you keep all the variations of EZ or only the midi notes ?
Thanks! Can you type in more complex chords like "sus" or "aug" to make the app use the notes in those chords while "walking" or transitioning? Also, once you have a groove you like, can the app make automatic variations on that groove, so that it varies between eg different verses?
lets say i want a certain note on a certain string ...can we do it??
Is it possible to move midi from Tontreak bass player. over in example logic pro x, and using logic bass?
Geddy Lee would be Proud!!
Can be downloaded from? toontrack audio sender ez bass
Can you route it to other vst's?
i love ezbass and all its features but i hopepeople dont forget to play instruments like this with their own hands live from time to time ;)
This isn’t for a bass player to stop playing bass. It’s for people that don’t play bass to get some good tones for songwriting/demo recordings. Some who do not play bass may just leave the EZ Bass in for a final mix. I believe most would want a bass player record the bass part for a final mix.
John Wayne this sounds good enough for a final mix .
Wiouldnt that be easier with a second monitor?
Wouldn't what be easier?
Forcé strings?
I always prefer to play the guitar with the pitch-shifter -12 semitones in a Helix patch with a bass amp.
since in any case it is better to pretend that it feels like it has been played by me ... even badly.
It is too cumbersome to make a bass line like this.
In the case of the drums, however, it is a completely different story.
Thats absolutely killer. How is the EZ plug ins on CPU usage? A buddy told me it uses very little CPU compared to other plugins?
Thanks, in my experience they are not CPU intensive at all.
Great software. Can we draft every midi file into EZ bass? Or only files from Toontrack?
EZbass eat all midi files. Its amazing instrument
great idea but only two basses and audio to midi just not quite there. But keeping an eye on it
Yeah . You could wait for those expansion packs that will surely come in later on .
I always take EZdrummer midi files out of the program and insert it into my DAW. Does the midi file have to stay in the EZbass program? Or can you move it to your DAW so you can monitor what's going on in the song with all the other tracks? I want all my parts where I can see them and not have to go to different screens to monitor data.
I don’t have EZ Bass, but I have EZ Drummer (just 1 week in) and I do exactly what you’re talking about. Since it’s the same designer and EZ Bass is a component in a suite of similarly designed software, I’d be flabbergasted if it didn’t. If that’s the only thing keeping you from buying it, just buy it. 99.9999999999999999999999% chance that it does. But if you need to be 100% certain, either ask Toontrack or read/watch other reviews/tutorials.
Would be amazing and I think it's essential too, cause many sound designer double up a real bass line with a synth sound or a filter or something else where you need the midi notes.
Enjoy listening to EZbass and I love the natural sound, but it is not user friendly when you drag and drop midi flies from other DAW into EZbass, it doesnt work. This is a real setback as there are many great midi files created from other DAWS that you are unable to use in EZbass, in the form of drag and drop.
Downloaded EZbass trial, where is the serial number please?
You get one when you buy it 🙂
No much of a metal player but this patch is awesome from Jason shop.line6.com/marketplace/metal-through-the-decades-hx-stomp-pack.html - sorry, off topic but I love it. I'm going to get EZBass for sure. I have SD2, EZ Drummer, EZ Keys too. Toontrack is a great company.
I wish the EZbass had come with a 4-string instrument instead of a 5-string.
Brother, this thing doesn’t go low enough though
It may be amazing tech but it kills the passion, musicians replaced by technicians
the way you speak is like Dave Mustaine :)
Take the DI out to helix they give you 3 sources out
I would just use Helix Native in Cubase if I wanted to process Ez Bass further.
Jason Sadites that’s what I would do but not sure if every helix player has native. And knows there are 3 audio tracks in easy bass
I just have Helix native.
Real Men Wear RUSH Shirts !
Very good but rather expensive for me.
It’s 150 at sweet water
I found all the grooves over the top. Its that annoying showoff guy in the band you just want to tell to stop fucking around and just play the bass.
This is pointless, Most guitar players today have either a Helix or Kemper. By using pitch shift on either of these units you can get a very convincing bass sound. Always being LOCKED into preset grooves, you're music ideas will always be compromised. I'll pass.
You can record like you said and then import the audio in ezbass. The plugin change it to midi so you can use the sounds of ezbass in case you don't have a bass. You can program the grooves from scratch or play them with a midi keyboard and then edit. It's a hell of a lot more than just preset grooves.
Even if you are a great bass player, the audio to midi could be great for change the bass sound to a bass synth sound or maybe both.
Again, plugins are not for everyone, but I never really like any bass library and this plugin is very cool for it's functionality.
I've used Ample Sound Metal Ray (similar to EZbass), but what I use it for is 1) composing the bass lines, 2) creating tablatures for myself, as I often record the actual parts sometimes a couple years later.
You are locked nowhere. You can completely edit everything or play your lines via a keyboard into your DAW or drag recorded audio into EZ bass to convert it to midi notes and than edit this further more. What exactely do you mean? Btw it opens up sound design worlds if you have audio plus the midi track parallel. You can spice your accustic instruments up by under mixing crazy synth stuff or a very low piano under heavy guitars or take samples to enhance initial transients or work with cool sound and sharp envelopes to enhance the attack of a bass and whatnot, possibilities are endless.
this thing sucks in a real session ..... its a memory sucker.... cpu out ..... I am running a mac pro LOADED with ram and proc....