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Miguel M wrote:
> I think that's about as realistic to a real sounding bass as you can

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> get.  

It was workable enough for them.
> A midi controlled bass instrument will not give you the same sound as a

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> real guitar.  (Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, Mutes, etc)  Of course this

> wouldn't be done for professional audio, but it could be used to have a

> nice practice session.

Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while

we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one

of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think

it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and

a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love

playing with real bassists! :-)
The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played

it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me,

but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing.
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:17 -1000, david wrote:

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>> Rob wrote:

>>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:40, Matthias Schönborn wrote:

>>>> Am Dienstag 04 Dezember 2007 21:15:43 schrieb Miguel M:

>>>>> Hmm, if you want a realistic sounding bass I would suggest

>>>>> plugging in your guitar to jack-rack (or some similar effects

>>>>> program) and use a pitch shifter to shift the pitch down by 50%.

>>>> I did that - kids, don't try this at home!

>>>> (Sounds like everything except a bass ;-) )

>>> It can be a pretty cool effect though (same for double speed bass as a

>>> lead or rhythm instrument.)  Guess I've listened to too much Mike

>>> Oldfield to be offended by that sort of thing ;)

>> Emerson, Lake and Palmer used to use it live, when Greg Lake needed to

>> play guitar and bass in the same song. I think they used an analog

>> frequency divider.

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David

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