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How would you create a bassline like this in synfire?

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Mon, 2015-12-07 - 21:44 Permalink

Well, first thing you need to know is how to play this on a keyboard ;-) At least a few bars.

A guitar synth might be helpful to capture this kind of performance. And you need a synth/sampler that can reproduce this sound. 

Once you got a few bars of the rhythm captured in a DAW (probably best for recording and editing raw MIDI), Synfire can import it and create a number of Figures that you can use in any song and harmony.

(http://users.cognitone.com/tutorial/import)

Mon, 2015-12-07 - 21:58 Permalink

I am currently trying to feed guitar solo wavs into this plugin to create the effect as its hard to create it with normal guitar samplers:

 

 

it does not work as well as expected. I will try Melodyne next

Mon, 2015-12-07 - 22:57 Permalink

This made me smile. He is using a guitar to play many different instruments, but I am always trying to play the piano to make it sound like a guitar! Image removed.

Wed, 2015-12-16 - 12:26 Permalink

@petearch how is your workflow for creating guitar sounds? any plugins / workflow you find useful?

Thu, 2015-12-17 - 23:17 Permalink

Hi Snares,

I have no standard workflow, it depends on what I'm doing. For the current song I'm working on I played a lead guitar solo part myself and recorded the audio, but I'm not great with lead guitar. So I recorded it into Synfire on a MIDI keyboard and for this particular song I'm using EWQL MOR 2 guitars (two guitars with one raised a third at a lower volume to give it more body). This works really well for this particular song. I had a basic harmony for the solo, but I then used the harmonizer in Synfire to get a much better chord progression for the solo.

Other times I've used a dry VST guitar and put an amp effect on it, but I've no particular favourite way of doing things, it's different each time.

For acoustic rhythm guitar, I sometimes play it myself and if not, I usually use Music Lab's RealGuitar.