Musicians who record at home..Meet your new bass player..

They also have a great drum line. It makes the frustrations of dealing with drummers and bass players a thing of the past.

If you're a jack of all trades with an emphasis on guitar, the direction home music production is going is getting interesting. 5 years from now itll be 3x better and so on...

That's just the initial program, I'm looking forward to the add-ons and possible amp sims.

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As a bass player

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This is a heads up for the home musician.

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This is all you need to know. I get out and play in front of real humans (before rona). Have fun with your sterile, robot music.

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This is all you need to know. I get out and play in front of real humans (before rona). Have fun with your sterile, robot music.

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Those type programs would only be used for song demos, not a final product project.
On song demos, you are trying to get them done as quick and efficiently as you can. The more people involved, the more complicated it gets, and the more it tends to go off the rails.. sound and budget speaking.
Solves scheduling issues too, and that's always a headache.

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Ha, I’m just funnin.

As auggie says above, this would probably be a very useful tool for demo purposes - much better than struggling to play an instrument you havent mastered just to get a track down.

That said, I doubt they will ever be able to replicate the human improvisational ability, particularly the way that a group of musicians are able to play off one another’s strengths to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

And if you consider that vital part of the collaborative process “frustrating”, then maybe you’re not doing it right.

I’d say bass players in general are pretty passive aggressive.

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I prefer them aggressive, that plus remembering to change your strings makes for great tone.

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We can't afford to just change our strings all the time man. People are replacing us in session gigs with software.

Things have sure come a long way from Drumflow 99 on a floppy disk.

I've used these programs for drums and guitar, but the bass programs have never impressed me. Partly it is because I can't ever hit the groove with them the same way. With a real bass, I can let a note ring a little longer while playing under or over it, but I've never been able to get one of these programs to play a groove the way I would play it.

The drum program I use, BFD3, allows you to add some human error to the drums, which is a weird feature, but also can aid in texture and feel, without anything noticeable for the listening.

Also I've found it is so much simply to plug into my interface, play a bass line, and then add effects or whatever to make it sound like I want. Programming stuff is the opposite of what I want to do when I'm making music.