Easy peasy midi editor to add bass and bring back into BB manager?

Aeros Loop Studio
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Hi everybody,

Belief me, there is no easy way to do drums with bass for BB! I love my BB and I’m a user from the very beginning, but this kind of midi and DAW stuff was too big for me, especially since I’m not a keyboarder and had no glue about midi.

But due to the current situation I have some time and so two weeks ago I downloaded REAPER, bought a small midi keyboard and started my try and error. I was in every state between euphoria and desperation, but last Sunday I managed to get my first OPB with bass working. Hurray!!

Tools I used:

  • REAPER
  • EZDrummer 2 (works fantastic as VSTi in REAPER)
  • Toontrack midi drum libraries (unfortunately not GM1 Standard)
  • Si-Bass Guitar (VSTi of Cakewalks free BandLab with a real nice bass sound)

Steps in brief:

  • record the original song, so I have all time measures, position of verse, corus, bridge etc.
  • do a beat track using my Toontrack drum libraries
  • record the bass line in another track with the little midi controller

Now the hard work starts:

  • do copies of the two midi tracks
  • change the midi mapping to be in line with the drum with bass drum set
  • merge the two modified midi channels
  • this work is really pain in the ass, because you can’t really control or listen to it

A BB VSTi (drum and bass) would be the solution! Does anybody have it?? I searched the Internet how to create an own VSTi but this seems to be really tough.

Now I’m a little bit heretical! When I had produced my original drum track (VSTi EZDrummer) and my bass track (Si_Bass Guitar) I rendered them to an MP3 file to add it as a backing track to my song texts in ONSONG which normally controls my BB. And the sound was amazing! Really much better then with BB! So if the trend goes to OPB, why should I use the BB in future??

As somebody already mentioned in the forum. A product is as good as its software is! And the BB Manager is not really state of the art.

So my advice to all who want to use OPB (with or w/o bass) and use the ONSONG App (or Songbook, etc): Do the arrangement in REAPER, export it to mp3 and don’t waste time and pain in additional editing to make it BB with bass compatible.

With friendly grooves from Bavaria

Karl

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